Thanks to Simes for posting the following news on our Transformers Forum regarding the Auto Assembly charity event.
As usual, Auto Assembly 2008 is holding one of it's now traditional
charity auctions to raise money for it's nominated charity, Help A
Local Child, and this year we're hoping that it will be our best yet!
Help
a Local Child was launched in 1994 with a commitment to helping the
children and young people of the West Midlands, who experience the
negative effects of poverty, abuse, neglect, homelessness, violence,
crime, illness and disability. There are many children in and around
the Birmingham area who are carers for their own parents or who are
indirect victims of domestic violence or suffer daily pain due to
illness. In this world of glamour and gain, these are the children that
BRMB want to help. Their focus is local fundraising, with all money
raised being awarded locally and really benefiting our community. With
the help and support of their listeners, local celebrities, corporate
partners, volunteers, and their employees, the fundraising year on year
will help more and more children in the area, enabling them to achieve
dreams and ambitions they would never have thought possible.
Last
time we managed to raise just over £1,000 (almost $2,000) for our
nominated charity from our auction and raffle thanks to many generous
donations and support from those attending and we are hoping to beat
this figure from Auto Assembly 2008 and we are already off to a flying
start with donated and pledged items including the following:-
Auto Assembly 2004 RiD Sideburn/Mirage postcard - signed by Wally Wingert
Auto Assembly 2005 RiD Optimus Prime postcard - signed by Neil Kaplan
Auto Assembly 2006 Beast Wars Megatron postcard - signed by David Kaye
Signed photo of Neil Ross (G1 - Slag, Springer, Hook, Bonecrusher...)
Auto Assembly 2008 postcard original artwork - Simon Williams
Auto Assembly 2008 original artwork - Mike Collins
Auto Assembly 2008 original artwork - artist TBC
Signed photo - Wankus (RiD - Prowl)
Signed "something" - David Sobolov (Beast Wars - Depth Charge)
We
are waiting for a lot more items as well so it's shaping up to be a
great auction this time around but we want more and this time we're
asking for YOUR help! If any of you have any items that you would like
to donate we'd love to hear from you!
The sort of things we are
looking for are items that are a little bit different, rare, more
collectible or unique, so we're not looking for more modern items
really. The convention itself is going to have more of a focus on G1
although we are still going to be open to donations of almost anything.
If you can send items to us in advance that would be great but if not,
if you can let us know in advance (and ideally send us a photo or two)
and then make sure we have them on the night before the convention then
that will be fine!
The best things we are looking for would be
signed items, original comic artwork, convention exclusive toys, old
mint boxed G1 toys, toy prototypes, limited edition comics, toys and
similar items that are hard to find - that sort of thing. If in doubt,
get in touch!
If any of you can help, it would be greatly
appreciated and we're sure it would help us to smash our previous
fundraising efforts. If you could help, our postal address for all
donations is:-
Auto Assembly 2008 Charity Auction
PO Box 8966
Great Barr
Birmingham
B43 5ST
England
As
well as the auction, we will be holding a raffle so if you have any
regular items you may wish to donate as prizes for this, please feel
free to send anything or bring these along on the Friday evening and
again, funds raised from this will go to Help A Local Child.
Many thanks and we look forward to seeing you all on 2nd August!
Simon and Sven
Auto Assembly 2008
email: enquiries@autoassembly.org.uk
web: www.autoassembly.org.uk
forum: http://autoassembly.proboards7.com
tel. +44 (0)7860 948296 / +44 (0)7804 951406