25 May 2011 09:57

CHARITY AUCTION

Bid for a holiday to help charities

Website holidaylettings.co.uk has launched a charity fundraising auction service called Bid4holidays which enables you to have a holiday and help change lives at the same time.

Bid4holidays launches on 31st May at 9pm. An online auction site where you'll be able to bid for a week’s stay at one of more than 180 holiday homes and all the proceeds will go to charity.

Every day during June a stay in up to six homes will be auctioned off. All homes in the auction are advertised on Holiday Lettings and the weeks have been kindly donated by the home owners. Auctions will run for 24 hours, starting and finishing at 9pm.

All funds will be split equally between Cancer Research UK and Helen & Douglas House, the company’s two charities of choice. The website has a fundraising target for the initiative an incredible £100,000.

It is an ambitious, but also highly-achievable goal says Kate-Stinchcombe-Gillies, spokesperson for holidaylettings.co.uk: "This is an exciting initiative. Cancer Research UK and Helen & Douglas House are fantastic charities to work with and we are thrilled to have found a way that our every day offering can be used to raise significant funds for their causes.

"The principle behind Bid4holidays is very simple but packs a punch; by bidding for the holiday you want, you could help change someone’s life. Our advertisers have been incredibly generous offering their homes for the cause and we simply hope that people will get behind this campaign while securing a wonderful holiday at the same time."

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