Sir Andy Murray OBE
UNICEF UK Ambassador
“It’s vital education continues. UNICEF is working to enable access to learning for displaced children, as well as supporting the rehabilitation of damaged schools, together with replacement equipment and furniture.”
In March 2022, Andy announced that he would be donating his 2022 prize money to Ukraine for urgent medical supplies and educational tools. By December this amount had reached over £500,000.
In November 2024, Andy designed a limited addition t-shirt as part of UNICEF UK’s fundraising collaboration with Everpress in support of World Children’s Day. Inspired by his own childhood spent playing sports, Andy’s design reflected the joy and freedom of growing up active and outdoors:
“It will come as no surprise that when I was a child, I was obsessed with sports. I spent nearly every day outside, playing all kinds of ball sports – not just tennis. This design represents those early memories and passion that shaped my life and served me fairly well.”
In 2020, Andy supported a campaign to encourage millions of people to receive the Covid-19 vaccine in the early stages of the vaccine roll-out during the pandemic. He fronted VaccinAid, a UNICEF fund-raising campaign which helped contribute towards UNICEF delivering 2 billion vaccines around the world.
Andy Murray Live and Andy’s Aces
Sir Andy has been supporting UNICEF since 2014 when UNICEF partnered with the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. In 2016 he launched Andy Murray Live, an exhibition match which raised £305,000 for UNICEF and a local Glasgow charity.
It took place at the SSE in Glasgow on 7 November with a line up featuring Roger Federer, Jamie Murray and Tim Henman. Rob Brydon hosted a fundraising gala dinner, conducting a Q&A with Sir Andy and fellow Ambassador Sir Chris Hoy. These combined events raised over £700,000 for UNICEF and the local Glasgow charity, more than doubling the 2016 total.
In September 2015, spurred on by the child migrant and refugee crisis, Andy decided that for every ace he served to the end of 2015 he would donate £50 to UNICEF’s work for children caught up in emergencies. Donations were matched by his partner Standard Life and by the LTA and ATP. This together with donations from his fans raised over £83,000 to help children whose world has been turned upside down by conflict or disaster.
Sir Andy heads up the UNICEF Tennis Team to keep children safe
In June 2015 Sir Andy starred in a series of comedy tennis sketches for UNICEF UK’s #BeatDisease appeal, raising awareness and vital funds to keep children safe from disease. He appeared in the sketches with One Direction’s Liam Payne, television presenter Clare Balding, and comedians Jack Whitehall and Richard Ayoade.
About Andy
Andy Murray is the 2012 US Open Champion, 2012 and 2016 Olympic Singles Champion, the 2013 and 2016 Wimbledon Champion and was a member of the victorious Great Britain Davis Cup squad in 2015. From winning his first tournament as an under-10 junio at the Dunblane Sports Club to his first junior major at the US Open, he has had a long and successful career in professional tennis. Currently on 26 career titles, Andy is Great Britain’s most successful tennis player of the Open era, the first Briton to reach 500 ATP match wins and his maiden grand slam title ended Great Britain’s 76-year wait for a male grand slam champion.Andy has been supporting Unicef since 2014 when we first partnered with the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
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