# MPs and Peers use eBay to fundraise online for Macmillan

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/02/03/mps-and-peers-use-ebay-fundraise-online-macmillan/
- Published: 2005-02-03T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

MPs and Peers are auctioning personal items in an “online parliamentary auction”
in aid of Macmillan Cancer Relief.
One-offs, signed and collectible items on offer
in the auction include Baroness Thatcher’s Greatest Speeches, which will include
a personalised message, and Baroness Trumpington’s shepherd’s crook.

The auction will run for 10 days from 2 February 2005.

This is the latest in a string of Macmillan campaigns and fundraising events supported
years supported by MPs and Peers. Just last week, singing and performing MPs and
Peers helped raise over £80,000 at the Parliamentary Palace of Varieties show in
London.

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Other items being auction include Bernard Jenkin’s signed photograph of himself 
training with the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, from his time serving as Shadow Secretary
of State for Defence; and signed copies of Baroness Boothroyd’s autobiography and
Michael Howard’s favourite book, Brideshead Revisited.

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