BuyOnceGiveTwice Holding Free Seminars to Introduce Charities to their Service
Howard Lake | 12 February 2008 | News
A new and unique online auction site www.buyoncegivetwice.co.uk is holding seminars to introduce charities to their service. BuyOnceGiveTwice is urging charities to maximise their fundraising from auctions. The site helps organisations by simply recycling luxury auction lot ‘waste’ at no cost to the charity.
At the end of this month they are staging four further seminars on February 27th at 11.15 and 2.30 at Decherts, 160 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4QQ and on the 28th 11.15 and 2.30 at DDB, 12 Bishop’s Bridge Road, London W2 6AA. The seminars are 40 minutes long, and guarantee to open a new revenue stream for charities.
Over 50 charities have been introduced to this unique and cost-free fundraising opportunity, 24 charities have signed up as founding charities including Breast Cancer Campaign, Action on Addiction, Get Connected, Starlight and Ovarian Cancer action. A further 27 charities have registered.
For further details on the seminars please contact Emma Leschallas at
em**@bu**************.uk
or call 01453 832440.
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Emma Walton, Walton Public Relations, 86 Roman Way, Bourton-on-the-Water, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL54 2HD. Tel: 01451 821800 Mobile: 07515 357842 Email:
em**@wa******.com
www.buyoncegivetwice.co.uk
Notes to editors:
• BuyOnceGiveTwice is the brainchild of Mia Woodford and Emma Leschallas, who spotted the potential of wasted lots after raising £500,000 at a single auction at the Cura Ball.
• BuyOnceGiveTwice uses the remaining 10% of the monies received from sales to cover the costs of running the site.
• There is no cost to the charity to auction or re-auction lots.
• The funds received by the charity from the auctions are unrestricted.
About Howard Lake
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.