A STROUD businessman and charity fundraiser has set his sights on helping clear the world of landmines.

For the past two years Clive Waller has raised more than £100,000 for Cancer Research at the annual Schroders UK Platform Awards dinner, held in London and compared by TV personality and news reader Kate Silverton.

Now the managing director of CWC Research has turned his attention to fundraising in support of the anti-land mine charities the Mines Advisory Group (MAG) and The HALO Trust.

The campaign to clear the world of mines was passionately supported by Princess Diana before she tragically died in a car crash in Paris on August 31, 1997.

Now both charities have got behind a campaign to make the world mine free by 2025, which Princess Diana’s son, His Royal Highness Prince Harry launched at a Kensington Palace reception.

And Mr Waller and Anthony Wolfe, a MAG fundraiser who will be speaking at this years Shroder’s dinner in the London Hilton were invited to the evening, and introduced to Prince Harry.

Mr Waller said: “The dinners celebrate excellence in investment platforms and associated technology.

“We were lucky enough to be introduced to Prince Harry, who has also passionately campaigned against the use of mines.”

The minefield in Angola that Princess Diana visited is now a thriving community with housing, a carpentry workshop, and a school.

Following in her footsteps, Prince Harry visited Angola in 2013, and saw how landmines still restrict communities and create fear.

At the launch a £100m in British aid was pledged over the next three years to the campaign.

This supports the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, which is recognised as having saved hundreds of thousands of lives and is singed by 162 states.

And so far, more than 51 million stockpiled landmines have been destroyed and the global trade in them has ground to a halt.

But despite this, landmines remain a constant threat to over 60 million people.

In 2015, deaths and injuries hit a 10-year high, thanks to an increase in their use in the conflicts in the Middle East.