News / Online auction raises £1k
AN ONLINE auction by the Shetland Solidarity with Refugees group last weekend raised more than £1,000.
The auction ran for 48 hours between Friday and Sunday night with a whole host of goodies up for grabs.
Thirty seven items, ranging from vintage bairns’ Fair Isle clothes to a basket-making workshop with Jeanette Nowak, were sold with latter fetching the highest auction price at £120. Second highest was £80 for a refurbished American clock by Gina Paolo Ritch.
In total £1,023 was raised, which Rita Smith of Shetland Solidarity with Refugees left the organisers “really chuffed”.
“It’s amazing how weel it’s done,” she said. “Huge thanks tae aabody dat donated and bid on items.”
The money raised will be used either to send more donations away to refugees or given directly to the Care for Calais charity.
- Anyone who won an auction item but hasn’t collected it yet can go to Brevik House in Lerwick from midday on Saturday (12 November).
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