Hugh Grant and his wife donate £10,000 to plumbing cause
Posted: Thursday, September 29th, 2022
The actor Hugh Grant and his wife Anna Eberstein have donated £10,000 to an organisation that provides free plumbing to vulnerable people, BBC News has reported. James Anderson, who founded Depher, described the actor as a "foundation and rock" after he contributed £55,000 over the past year. "But this time with it being from Anna as well, it feels more personal as it's from one family to others," the Burnley-based plumber said. "It's been humbling and heavenly." The couple made the donation on Saturday to a crowdfunder so the organisation can provide services across the UK amid rising energy costs. Anderson, who was born in Liverpool, set up Depher - Disability and Elderly Plumbing and Heating Emergency Repair - in 2017 after dealing with people in deprived circumstances suffering from poor heating and plumbing. He earned worldwide attention after he refused to charge an elderly customer for work on her boiler. As a community interest company (CIC), he said it relied on donations to provide free services during the winter. He told BBC Breakfast earlier this week: "All the time, people are coming for food, gas, electric - the plumbing and heating obviously, because now it's getting colder. "And we're getting a lot of people asking for other help - with building issues, debts, loan sharks." Last year, Anderson had said he feared he would have to shut down Depher because of a lack of funding caused by the pandemic and said he had not taken a salary since the start of the first lockdown.
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