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Benevolent invites bidders to register for Thanksgiving Day fundraiser auction

Published:  21 November, 2017

Drinks charity The Benevolent is launching a ‘Thanks for Giving’ silent auction on 23 November to raise funds.

The Thanksgiving Day launch is offering a number of ‘money can’t buy’ experiences from 9am.

These include a range of auctions including ‘Be a Brewer for a day’, which starts from £120, two VIP tickets to Old Trafford for Manchester United Vs West Bromwich Albion with a starting bid of £270 and even a luxury villa in Orlando, Florida for two weeks for up to eight people starting at £500.

While the auction is primarily aimed at people in the drinks trade the charity urging people to encourage people outside the sector to get involved.

Anyone wanting to bid must register with the website first.

The Benevolent is the trade charity for people who are currently working, or have worked, in the UK drinks industry in any role and in any trade sector.

It supports employees, or former employees, from every area of the UK drinks industry providing practical, emotional and financial help. It helps people facing a variety of difficult circumstances, including serious illness, disability, issues with stress or depression, with debt or any family crisis such as a seriously ill partner or child.

In September thirty members of the Treasury Wine Estates team took on the Thames Path Challenge.

The fundraising event was in memory of their former managing director Dan Townsend, who passed away suddenly in March.

The team raised money for the drinks industry charity of which Townsend was chairman in 2015 and 2016.

In August it was revealed that director of JF Hillebrand’s Porter and Laker business Chris Porter was to become the Benevolent’s new CEO.

He replaces current CEO David Cox and former European Director of New Zealand Winegrowers who joined the Benevolent as chief executive in 2013.

Cox is due to retire this year. 

To bid in the silent auction click here: Thanks For Giving

Or head to: www.32auctions.com/thanksforgiving2017