Hey verbals great idea if you can pull it off. I love the idea of directly giving. Its like really fluffy direct action. I'm not sure what I'll give at the mo, really knackered but just put 'something from FPR'. Also the POTY awards was going to have a little charity auction for fun with a couple of small bits and pieces and I'm sure eveyone will agree money raised in that can happily go towards this cause also. If there's too much money we can bomb two wards with toys (or maybe get in a magician as well ).

Best of luck Verbals.

hi everyone, i dont have much time right now, and will answer all PM,s later. Someone wrote and said that there are issues with giving kids presents (vetting the toys, health and safety etc) plus issues with vetting the people who go on the ward. Its miles of red tape and also the hospitals all have NHS funding. A man contacted my from great ormand street and told me that they get thousands of toys donated every year and most chilrens units would be similar. Also when i called them the boss of the ward sighed and made me feel as if i was creating problems for them, she wasnt very appreciative at all and if i am honest, a bit nasty really

So what i have decided, if its OK with everyone is to donate the money we raise to a childrens hospice. They rely entirely on outside donations. I called one called bluebell wood (www.bluebellwood.org) after the hospital and the lady in charge of fund raising was absolutely over the moon. She really was. They have a couple of shops where they sell things people bring in and also have links from their website to various online shops (like amazon) so if you go to amazon from their link and buy something they give them a fee. Bluebell wood is a purpouse built facility that can only survive with donations. They aim to make every day the kids are there sepecial. I said that i didnt mind just nading the cash over to let them spend it on what they needed to do, but i would like an event paid for, a huge party at christmas or something or an outing, and i said i would also like something else big to aim for like (and this is off the top of my head) A massive landscape garden where the families can spend quality time with their kids, with purpose built dens and hidehouts for the kids. Something really magical so its like walking into a fairytale, with a section with an adventure play area. But obviously they know what space they have to work with etc, the lady there said she would help us in absolutely any way she could. She suggested that i provide the address of every winner so she can send a letter from them thanking them for bidding. I could also take a load of the items down when they arrive and have the staff take pictures of the staff looking at them so they can post our auction on their website so people can log on to see that it is legit.

Also i think they are pretty good with local publicity, and with all the generous people and artist contributions on this wonderful board i can see local, and maybe national press getting hold of it. its a good story. With this in mind i think its better if i set up a seperate ebay account to sell the items. First of all it is not fair for me to have my items that are not charity items getting free publicity from a charity, or that someone might think they are all charity too. I would not feel comportable profiting from this in any way, shape of form. If someone is good at writing HTML coding for snazzy looking ebay auctions that would be great, i cannot see the 0 feedback being an issue with all the links that will be on the auctions for people to check out, plus i know that you guys will be bidding for some of the stuff donated.

Hope this sounds good so far, the hospice is new and has had funding issues right from the word go, they are taking in patients at the start of next month and will need our help making everything amazing. I really believe in this and this belongs to everyone who contributes to it. Everyone on this board is amazing. If you know people, friends of friends who is an art student working for damian hirst, get them to get him to send a spot painting! seriously though, if he knew about it he probably would donate, i think most people would, knowing that a 5 minute drawing could really help a dying child and that a 5 hour painting from some of them could buy a whole new ward!! Is anyone friendly with LAZ? would he ask his artists if they would donate some work? Anything at all, any help is so welcome and appreciated.

Please bare with the PM's. I will answer all of them, but for now i canno even look at them im afraid as i will be rushed to death until midnight. i hope you will check their web site and agree its a worthy cause to raise money for.

verbal,
your hospice idea is a wonderful one. I applaud you for putting this togther (along with others helping).

Verbal - this auction of yours is truly a great one and i applaud you sir!
Harveyn - respect due as well for organising!

As an idea of what could be provided for the children and hospice, maybe some art materials might be alright?

I am just loving this idea more and more the more I read!!!
You guys are all great.

I am assuming you mean 31 oct 2007 closing date for offerings
and 14 NOVEMBER 2007 donations to be submitted by date

love the idea of supporting this hospice.. you doin damn fine work there .. this has a real feel mighty good factor 10 outof 10



i am in the process of cutting the stencil for submission..
Will pm you some pics in a few days when i got the test spray done .

Peace spqr (orangematt)

Hi - Yes sorry about the date confusion the closing date for submissions is the 14.11.2007.

Hi CR - The plan is that the pieces will be submitted to Verbal for him to take over and perform the auction part of the process on Ebay. I here what you are saying about postage but to make sure everything is available for auction (as this will be open to the general public on ebay) its probably safer this way.

Verbal will update everyone soon as to the delivery address. The plan is then to send an alert to all forum members as to when each auction commences.

I need images to allow me to post pictures of all donations for the review week (14.11.2007 to the 21.11.2007).

This is more fun and worthwhile than sitting hitting F5 all day...... ;D ;D ;D

totally fine by us verbal, its your idea so totally up to you mate

31.10.2007 - Closing Date For Offerings
14.11.2007 - Donations To Be Submitted By Date
14.11.2007 to 21.11.2007 - Review Week

I will post Verbal's delivery address on Sunday.

Please pm me with full details of your offering (Size, Edition, Signed/Unsigned etc) and I will then send you my email address to supply me with an image. This will all be used in the thread I will post at the start of review week.

Verbal will soon announce the Auction process (hopefully with daily forum alerts) along with the Charity details and how it will governed/audited.

Thank you for all the generous contributions to date and the offers of support and help.

Please keep them coming in.... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

The latest...

• Pre D. Baldwin Vase Sale £511 - Verbal
  
• Cash Donation £300 - Organics1
  
• 2 x Diamonds - Verbal
  
• Neate T Shirt Signed - Carlito
  
• Pete & Cat Signed - Amilas (Carl) - Gallery
  
• TBA - Manchestermike
  
• Beejoir LV Child (Unsigned) - Organics1
  
• Ripper 1331 Crucipod Red from the original batch - Sham69
  
• TBA - Orangematt - Artist Donation
  
• Artist Own Work - Whatson - Artist Donation
  
• Artist Own Work A/P - Crazyjake - Artist Donation
  
• TBA - Manty
  
• Bast Print - Tokyojeff
  
• "Let Go" AP Hand Finished (Unique) Signed & Stamped - Copyright - Artist Donation
  
• Rude Baby Gold Original Stencil - Lupa - Artist Donation
  
• Painting - Ripper 1331 - Artist Donation
  
• Sticker/Shirt/Button Pack - Ripper 1331 - Artist Donation
  
• Dicy "On The Brain - Pink" Signed Ed 50 - Hipart (Steve) - Gallery
  
• Cherri Woods Original Water Colour - Harveyn
  
• Beejoir SBFO Gift Print - Campbarbossa (Frankie) - Gallery
  
• Dicy "On The Brain - Gold" Ed 50 - TI
  
• Wooden Box 1/1 Original - Welikestatic - Artist Donation
  
• Micallef's New Book - Stuey09
  
• Sitting Boy Original on Cardboard - Jef Aerosol - Artist Donation
  
• "Che The Words" 1/3 AP- CR - Artist Donation
  
• Bundle of Own Stencils - Bombhuggers - Artist Donation
  
• 11 of Own Screenprints - Thaites / Notitle - Artist Donation
  
• TBA - FPR
  
• "Burger King" Dolk - Fun10ver
  
• "Bunny" Unsigned - Slammer
  
• "Space Monkey" green signed AP - Dalek - Gilbaron
  

Its gone a bit quiet out there.

Come on keep the donations coming in..... ;D

Matt

That is stunning and will raise great money for the charity.

Next please...... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

those are lovely pieces of work Whatson.. i particularly like the gradiated shading on the last two

Nice one geezer .

Could we have a little bit more detail on the hospice in question. Sorry if its been posted already. Any links? It usually helps the causes if people engage with them whilst giving to them.