Richard Keys continues to register more hours of live television annually than any other presenter. He is best known as Sky Sports'
highly regarded football anchorman, but has also covered Grand Slam Tennis, World Championship Boxing, The Open Golf, Snooker, Darts,
Basketball, American Football and Motor Cycling. He has presented over 1000 live football matches for Sky Sports.
At TV-am, he also co-hosted "Good Morning Britain" and stood in as presenter for "Frost on Sunday". Richard fronted Sky's "Final Countdown"
coverage of the last days of Premiership Football in 1995, which won the "Best Live Sports Coverage" category at the Royal Society TV Awards.
Richard has also acted as host and MC for numerous conferences and awards ceremonies as well as speaking at question and answer sessions and
providing voice-overs. Richard’s hobbies include the theatre, travel and golf (handicap of 22).
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Sid has been a main presenter since the CBeebies channel launched in 2002. The channel, which is on air from
6am to 7pm is primarily aimed at children under 6yrs of age and as such makes Sid a perfect choice to be one of our patrons.
As an actor Sid has enjoyed performing on stage for children and families in such roles as Aslan in 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe',
the Narrator in 'The Twits' and Slave of the Ring in 'Aladdin'. Sid is a family man with a 9yr old son and would like to help
empower children to develop confidence in and through their own creativity.
Sid is passionate about supporting good causes and is a keen supporter of Barnardos, joining in many of their fundraising events,
even taking part in the London Marathon for them in 2003 and 2006. Sid has also supported FREDome who aim to make a better world for
our children to inherit and is also currently a patron for Body & Soul charity supporting children and families living in the UK with HIV and AIDS.
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