UK and India contributions total over £5m
Being admitted to the Guild of Cambridge Benefactors on 11th of April 2022
Being made an 1869 Benefactor Fellow of Fitzwilliam College Cambridge
Being made a Benefactor Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge by the Master Baroness Sally Morgan
Giving my acceptance speech
With the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University Stephen Toope
With the Master and the Vice Chancellor after the ceremony
2022
Fitzwilliam College announces that Dinesh Dhamija
is to permanently fund three Fellowships
Also becomes a member of the Guild of Cambridge Benefactors
2021
Co Head of Global Fundraising of Tie
2021
Advisor to Ten
2020
Vice Chair of Global Board of Tie
2018 - 2019
Trustee of Global Board of Tie
2017 - date
Board member of Lepra
2016 - 2018
Chairman of CEO UK
2014 - 2017
President of TiE London
2006 - 2018: Fundraising Committee of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Member of the Board, playing a major role in maintaining the reputation and competitiveness of Cambridge as a worldwide benchmark for higher education; deploying funding initiatives and donations, including a £100,000 bursary fund.
2001 - date: Shiksha and Chikitsa, India
Helped found two charities: Shiksha provides free education to children of the transient labour population of building-site workers and has 1,200 registered students. Chikitsa provides free medicines to slum dwellers living on the outskirts of New Delhi. Along with dispensing free medicines, it operates 15 mobile clinics that visit the slums and treat 120,000 people a year.
2008 - 2016: Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
Member of the advisory board, donor and trustee, with special responsibility for scholarships for British citizens to travel and work abroad to learn from foreign countries and help change their own communities in the UK. Brings business and financial expertise to a charity that donates 125 travel fellowships of £8,000 each a year.
2006 - 2010: SCOPE UK
Advisor to this leading charity promoting equal opportunities for disabled people, serving on the Business Development Board and the Sporting Inspirations Events Committee.
Memorial Gates
The Memorial Gates is a war memorial located at the Hyde Park Corner end of Constitution Hill in London. Also known as the Commonwealth Memorial Gates, they were erected in memory of the five million volunteers from the Indian sub-continent, Africa and the Caribbean who fought with Britain in the two World Wars.
They commemorate the armed forces of the British Empire from five regions of the Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka), as well as Africa and the Caribbean, who served for Britain in the First and Second World Wars.
This memorial is very close to Dinesh, as his father served in the Royal Navy and his father in law served in the British Indian Army during World War II. His father in law General O P Malhotra went on to become Chief of the Armed Forces of India.