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Pants to be auctioned online for Comic Relief

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Howard Lake | 6 March 2001 | News

Celebrities are to auction their pants online for Comic Relief

Celebrities are to auction their pants online for Comic Relief

This year’s Comic Relief theme of “Say pants to poverty” is to result,predictably enough, in an auction of celebrities’ pants. The undergarments will be auctioned online on Freeserve’s auction site. Supporters will be able to bid online for pants donated and designed by Gail Porter, Davina

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The auction was initiative by Persil, which will be donating an expected £300,000 to Comic Relief from the sale of Comic Relief-branded packs of washing powder and liquid. The company is also sponsoring the Persil Arty Pants Exhibition at Leeds City Art Gallery.

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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.

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