An exciting new on-line auction of sporting memorabilia opened on Friday 23rd November with the aim of raising funds to take children with life-shortening conditions on days out at major sporting events.

The site – www.sportslink.org.uk – is run by the charity Sportslink and sponsored by 25 leading sports organisations and commercial concerns. They range from the England Cricket Board to DAF Trucks and include six Formula 1 race teams and three leading football clubs. Organisations involved in motorcycle racing, rugby and boxing are also supporting the charity.

The first of what will become a regular six monthly auction is already underway with around 80 items currently available for viewing on the website. Bids can be entered now and the auction closes progressively over the week beginning 1st December. So there’s plenty of time to buy that unique piece of sporting memorabilia as a Christmas gift.

Whatever your mainstream sporting interest there’s sure to be something you could bid for. There are tickets for race meetings; signed shirts, photographs, bats and balls; and opportunities for groups of people to visit F1 team headquarters.

Sportslink organiser Nigel Hunt says that the money raised will be used to take children from Helen and Douglas Home in Oxford to sporting events. “We’ve been able to do this for some time thanks to the generosity of a number of major sports teams,” he explains. “What the auction will now enable us to do is to widen the scope and scale of this activity and organise travel and hospitality at each event at our own cost.”

Helen & Douglas House is a registered charity providing respite and end of life care for children and young adults with life-shortening conditions, as well as support and friendship for the whole family. The two hospice houses are bright, vibrant and positive places, where the emphasis is on living life to the full, even when that life may be short. Sportslink will help to bring added enjoyment into the lives of these young people and their families by providing dedicated hospitality in the world of sport.
“We’re extremely grateful to those individuals and organisations who have generously donated items for the December auction,” says Nigel Hunt. “However, in order to run the auction on a regular basis we need more people and organisations to donate signed sporting memorabilia.”

Arrangements to donate items can be made direct with Nigel by calling him on 07796 173123.

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