Stream Mitch Winehouse interview with Ray D'Arcy by RTÉ Radio 1 from desktop or your mobile device. Alliance © Alliance Publishing Trust 2008 | Charity Number: 1116744 | Company Number: 5935154, Alliance Publishing Trust is a limited company registered in the UK. Sign up to our daily newsletter So we get all that feedback. Mitch Winehouse has hit back at Sir Paul McCartney, who recently revealed his regret at not trying to save Amy Winehouse.. “The idea is, if we do a film, we want to do something a bit different. With Focus 12, for instance, we’ve donated over £36,000 in order to make a bed available for young people up to 25 years old; previously they would have had to turn these people away. I’m a jazz musician with a band, so we go and support their events and we’re happy to help in whatever way we can. What are your plans in the short term? What are the main goals of the foundation, Alliance editor Caroline Hartnell asked Mitch Winehouse. ‘This has saved my life. We’ve partnered up with the drug charity Addaction as part of their Schools for Change project. I was obviously in shock but this was in my mind all the time. You talked about checking that the money’s been properly spent. [Mitch Winehouse pictured in the article talking to the resident nurse at the New Horizon Youth Centre. Mitch Winehouse has broken down in tears speaking about his late daughter Amy in his first television interview after her death. The Amy Winehouse Foundation has given grants to the MS Society, LauraLynn House, The Irish Centre and the New Horizon Youth Centre. To date the Amy Winehouse Foundation has raised more than £1 million and funds a number of charities including children’s hospices and drug counselling services. Some people call residential rehabilitation ‘Hollywood-style treatment’ – nonsense. Copyright © 2011–2020 AmyWinehouseForever.org This is his first ever full-length interview, given to mark the opening of a major new exhibition at the Jewish Museum entitled Amy Winehouse: a Family … We’ve decided as a board of trustees that we need to give larger contributions to fewer charities and projects to make a bigger impact. Interview: Mitch Winehouse Why Mr Winehouse wants the fame that ripped Amy apart Amy Winehouse’s father, Mitch, draws encouragement … But we’ve made some very meaningful associations with other foundations like Addaction and the Angelus Foundation. I didn’t have a clue. Although Winehouse was raised Jewish and expressed pride in being Jewish, she was not religious. Have you had much contact with others engaged in foundations with similar missions to yours? Even if we seem to be swamped with applications, settling on the right projects that we feel comfortable with is quite difficult. The father of the legendary singer has … The film is based on archive footage and interviews with Winehouse, but Kapadia also conducted over 100 interviews that combine to provide a compelling narrative around the life of Winehouse. One of the major contributors to Focus 12 was someone who came to the project five years ago. As you grow, you can get the board of trustees overtaking the family. In 1979, Janis gave birth to their eldest child and only son, Alex. The Owner is an independant entity and not part of the company that is a merchant to any if the products discussed on this website, and recommends that claims made on this website or any other should be independently validated by the consumer based on their own personal circumstances. The interview focuses on the work being done by the Amy Winehouse Foundation which was set up September 2011, by Mitch Winehouse after the sudden death of his daughter Amy Winehouse. I’m definitely staying involved,’ was his unequivocal answer. Amy Winehouse's dad, Mitch, says there are no plans to release more music from the singer. I recognize her instantly: … Originally my idea was to make 50 £10,000 donations a year. So we give the kids the information, and leave it to them to use it as they feel fit. They guided us and helped us. Blake Fielder-Civil Loved Amy Winehouse. So your main focus is on drug and alcohol services? Another problem is the way government spend their money. Finally, does he plan to stay involved with the foundation? Enjoy Celebrity Radio’ s Mitch Winehouse Life Story Interview ~ The Real Amy Winehouse…. Annika Jankell träffade Amys pappa, Mitch Winehouse, för en exklusiv intervju.Han har skrivit en bok om dottern och enligt honom beror Amys drogmissbruk på dotterns exmake Blake Fielder-Civil. Required fields are marked *. Amy Winehouse was born in London on September 14, 1983 and broke into the music business at the age of 16. Mitch Winehouse on Blake Fielder-Civil: "He introduced her [Amy] to Class A drugs, and she took to it like a duck to water" Coming up this evening, "Piers Morgan Tonight" welcomes Mitch Winehouse for a candid and revealing discussion on his late daughter, her life, and her struggles with substance abuse. Have you had much contact with others engaged in foundations with similar missions to yours? But then you’ve got to make out 50 lots of cheques, do 50 lots of due diligence, 50 visits, 50 lots of going back to make sure everything’s okay, 50 lots of audits … It was never going to work. We might give them x amount every three months. This Mitch Winehouse interview is with Caroline Hartnell the editor of Alliance Magazine. So we are quite happy taking on the role without any kind of government assistance. Share on Facebook. The controversy over Mitch Winehouse’s portrayal in Amy threatens to overshadow this point, which is the real crux of Kapadia’s film. • All Rights Reserved. Mitch Winehouse interview with Ray D'Arcy by RTÉ Radio 1 published on 2015-07-10T15:03:00Z. Some projects out there are so strapped for money that they need cash to pay their staff, but for us it’s not about paying staff, it’s about helping children. Really, we couldn’t have started without them. We were lucky in that Robbie Williams’ mum contacted me immediately and we met up and explained what we wanted to do. Were you familiar with grantmaking foundations before you set up the Amy Winehouse Foundation? We don’t want to blow all our money in one year and then next year find we can’t afford office staff. AWF pays the salary of the music teacher.] Eight years to the day that Amy Winehouse died, we present this interview with Amy Winehouse from The Telegraph archive, originally published in 2011. Less than two months later, on 14 September, her family launched the Amy Winehouse Foundation in her memory. After about three days, I started talking to people and finding out what it entailed. Are all your grants for specific projects or are there some organizations you believe in so strongly you’d give them a grant to help them with the core costs of their organization? Blake introduced her to class A drugs, he is responsible for that situation. We want everybody to look at Amy and see her as the loving and charitable woman she was. The father of the late singer Amy Winehouse admits that he has put on the pounds amid the stresses of the coronavirus pandemic and feels that it is natural people turn to food and substances such as alcohol and drugs during difficult times. It works as long as everybody gets something out of it, without pinching anything from anybody else. I suppose over time we could compare children who have gone through the project with those who haven’t, but that’s a long-term thing. This time, Mitch Winehouse… Were you familiar with grantmaking foundations before you set up the Amy Winehouse Foundation? And in one way or another, most of the organizations that we support are involved in campaigning and advocacy, alongside providing a service. Have you had much contact with others engaged in foundations with similar missions to yours? ‘Wouldn’t it be great to set up a foundation?’ ‘Great, what is a foundation?’ ‘What is the difference between a foundation and a charity?’ I’m still not sure! Where did the idea come from? Despite a hugely tragic, untimely and devastating end to Amy’s life, her legacy lives on through the ‘Amy Winehouse … Interview with Mitch Winehouse – Amy’s dad. Some projects out there are so strapped for money that they need cash to pay their staff, but for us it’s not about paying staff, it’s about helping children. Do you see yourself as remaining actively involved in the day-to-day running of the foundation, or as more of a figurehead? Originally my idea was to make 50 £10,000 donations a year. We might give a grant over three years rather than giving it all in one year. We don’t only speak about crack and heroin, we also talk about the dangers of alcohol and marijuana, which is where it starts, or the terrible epidemic of ketamine, party drugs and so-called legal highs. Having a grantmaking strategy helps us with our cash flow as well. We do it differently now. For the six months that they are there it works out as £15,000, so for £15,000 we can fix someone. Donations to the charity help to support charitable activities in both the UK and abroad which provide help, support or care for young people, especially those who are in need by reason of ill health, disability, financial disadvantage or addiction. Talking to Piers Morgan on his CNN Tonight show, Winehouse … Amy Winehouse’s father, Mitch, draws encouragement from the … We’ve got a CEO out there and it’s going wonderfully, but I can’t be in both places at once and it puts a lot of strain on me going backwards and forwards. We help the Angelus Foundation with their fundraising. The interview focuses on the work being done by the Amy Winehouse Foundation which was set up September 2011, by Mitch Winehouse after the sudden death of his daughter Amy Winehouse. I’m going out to the USA on Wednesday for a board meeting of our US foundation. Mitch Winehouse has put on two stone during lockdown. So although we tend to fund projects, in this case it was a worker but specifically for a project that didn’t exist before. We’ve also had money coming in from royalties, from Amy’s Fred Perry line, and Universal were very generous: they gave us a pound from every album sold in the UK and Ireland from the Lioness: Hidden Treasures album. Amy Winehouse's father Mitch has dismissed hologram tour reports as 'utter rubbish' (EPA) Amy Winehouse detailed her dreams to have children in a previously unpublished 2004 interview. It’s pointless trying to hide the fact that Amy was involved with drugs and alcohol but we didn’t want her only to be associated with that. Enjoy Celebrity Radio’s Mitch Winehouse New Album Exclusive Life Story Interview….. Mitch Winehouse is the father of legendary, international vocal genius Amy Winehouse. We’re not there to lecture them and say ‘don’t take drugs’; the idea is that by hearing from a person who’s in recovery, the school community – the teachers and parents as well as the kids – will be able to learn from the terrible experiences they’ve had. "But that's the way she is. Mitch Winehouse married pharmacist Janis Seaton in 1976. I’m wondering what it’s like to be a newcomer in this world of trusts and foundations, many of which have been established a long time. Setting off the week with a series of rolling cringes, Tamron Hall got into a verbal sparring match with the father of late pop star Amy Winehouse, Mitch Winehouse. But you learn as you go along and hope you don’t make too many mistakes. I’m wondering what it’s like to be a newcomer in this world of trusts and foundations, many of which have been established a long time. I suppose over time we could compare children who have gone through the project with those who haven’t, but that’s a long-term thing. www.amywinehousefoundation.org. But again, you can’t help everybody. Interview – Mitch Winehouse Amy Winehouse died tragically on 23 July 2011, aged just 27. That can’t be right. But the only way we will really know if it’s working is if in 20 years the number of people presenting themselves with addiction problems is reduced. For example, there are so few people being referred to residential rehabilitation, but if you are within the criminal justice system you are five times more likely to be referred to residential rehabilitation for drug and alcohol addiction than if you’re a non-offender. As we said, there’s never been any drug education anyway, but there certainly isn’t any now. Share on Facebook. As we progressed, we brought in our own people, who had experience in setting up foundations and charities, but frankly it was the blind leading the blind to begin with. Tweet on Twitter. But measuring that outcome, that’s almost impossible. This has saved my life. Mitch Winehouse, 70, said the UK-wide lockdown caused by the outbreak of COVID-19, had highlighted the importance of mental health. During one interview, Winehouse said "being Jewish to … We are working very closely with them to monitor the progress of these people after they have come through rehab. Another problem is the way government spend their money. With something like your own Schools Education Project, won’t it be even harder to measure the impact? The only thing slimier and grosser than Mitch Winehouse making My Daughter Amy is his attempt to spin it as something that was pro-social and met with his daughter’s full participation. Local artists and musicians from Grace Woodroofe, Felicity Groom, Ruby Boots, Odette Mercy, Lucy Peach, Nyanda J,... Continue →, Lioness: Hidden TreasuresMusic News report that bookies William Hill back Amy Winehouse album Christmas #1 as their 4/7 favourite. Amy Winehouse would have turned 30. That’s why we have a board of trustees, so if I say I want to give £1 million to a dogs’ charity they say you can’t do that because the foundation’s mission is to help young people. We do it differently now. 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