Welcome to the Pilotlight auction. You are just a mouse click away from an adventure. The bidding starts here at 0900 on November 18th.
An exclusive tango lesson with Strictly’s Brian Fortuna and VIP tickets to the live recording of The X Factor on November 29th are just two of the remarkable once in a lifetime lots up for bid.
We’ve got unique ‘money can’t buy’ experiences with proceeds going to transform lives across the UK. It’s the perfect chance to snap up the kind of one-off Christmas presents you won’t find anywhere on the High Street.
Star studded lots include jeweller Theo Fennell designing a unique item for one lucky winner. Bidders can fight for tickets to the final dress rehearsal of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Love Never Dies’, the sequel to ‘The Phantom of the Opera’.
Kenny Dalglish is offering the chance of lunch with him at Liverpool Football Club on match day, seats in the Directors’ box, and a photo opportunity with Manager, Rafael Benitez.
And Harry Potter fans can discover the wizardry behind the movie by bidding for two weeks work experience behind the scenes at animation studio The Moving Picture Company – creators of the Potter films.
And because Pilotlight uses skills to shape charities, we’ve got some inspiring ‘work experience’ lots where bidders have the chance to learn some new skills. The Spectator, Britain’s oldest and best-selling weekly magazine is offering a week at their head office. GQ is offering a week’s experience on their feature desk and Harvey Nichols, is offering a 2 week job behind the scenes. Happy bidding!
Pilotlight aims to raise £1million from the auction which will be used to triple the number of small charities helped and business leaders recruited to work with them over the next 3 years.
Over 1.2 million people across the UK have already been touched by Pilotlight. It works like a dating agency matching, but then also carefully managing, small entrepreneurial charities and social enterprises with bankers, entrepreneurs, fund managers, lawyers and hedge funders.
In challenging financial times, the charities want to survive and grow and to do this they need the best business advice available to them. BP, M&S, Sainsbury’s, Morgan Stanley, BT and Coutts are just some of the big names providing ‘Pilotlighters’ to work with the charities.
Pilotlight currently supports over 50 innovative small charities and social enterprises across the UK.
Charities that Pilotlight has worked with experience an average growth of 54% within 2 years. The average growth for voluntary sector organisations is 6% per year. This service is free to the charities it benefits. In the current climate, and with so many charities needing to help more people, they need the best business advice available to them, in order to become more sustainable and grow.