Services/Live fundraising
The pledge, the auction and the games, run by the person who designed them.
One voice carrying the room from the welcome to the close. No handovers, no supplier who has never met your cause, and nobody improvising the most important ninety seconds of the night.
On the night, first
The live pledge is the moment the evening is built around.
It comes straight after the auction, every time, while paddles are still in hands. Ten lots in a room of two hundred people means ten winners. The pledge, run in tiers, lets the other hundred and ninety give too, each at their own level, in the same three minutes. It is the part most charities are nervous about, and the part that most often out-raises the auction. At the Jigsaw Trust it brought in £30,600 against the auction’s £27,000, and because it is a genuine gift, it carries Gift Aid.
- 1Everyone can give
Ten lots means ten winners. A pledge in tiers reaches the two hundred people who did not win anything, each at their own level.
- 2It costs nothing
No lot to source, no reserve to clear, no supplier to pay. Every pound pledged is a gift, so it carries Gift Aid as well.
- 3It is easy to run
Tiers on the big screen, a tap on the phone, the total climbing in front of the room. The platform does the counting while Kevin holds the room.
Secondary, and run to keep the money
The live auction
Run to raise money for you, not to shift somebody’s stock.
We have no lots to sell you, so every lot in the room is one your team secured, with our help. They are chosen and sequenced deliberately, reserves are set to sell rather than to protect a supplier’s margin, and the storytelling does the work a glossy catalogue cannot. Smaller donated items, run well, routinely outperform expensive bought-in lots, because the charity keeps 100% of what they raise.
At one gala, paintings by schoolchildren raised £4,000.
Straight after the welcome
The fundraising games
Quick, warm, and quietly profitable.
Heads or tails, the envelope game, the 50:50 draw and raffle elements, chosen for your crowd and placed where they do the most work. Usually that is early, before dinner. A room that has not eaten yet is a cold room, and games warm it far more effectively than anything said from a lectern.
They raise money in their own right, through the platform, and they make everything that follows land harder.
Hosting is included, not sold
Compèring the evening, holding the running order, managing the energy: all of it comes with the engagement. It is how the strategy gets delivered, not a separate product with its own price.
Book Kevin, and the platform comes with him
The bidding, the pledge tiers on the big screen, the tickets, the table plan and the Gift Aid capture: all of it is free when Kevin is your auctioneer and host. No percentage of what you raise, no donor tip, no payment charges added on top. The only money we take is his fee, and you can book him at thecharityauctioneer.uk.
The auctioneer is the proof, not the product
The strategy leads. But it is a strategy written by somebody who has stood in front of hundreds of rooms and knows what a plan does when it meets four hundred people, a late-running dinner and a bad PA.
Over £10 million raised across the UK, Europe and the United States.
Questions
Asked before every booking
What does a charity auctioneer actually do?
On the night: runs the live pledge and the live auction, delivers the games, and holds the room’s energy across the whole evening. Here it goes further. The same person designed the evening months earlier, so the delivery matches the plan.
Do we need big-ticket lots to make it work?
No. That belief is what this whole brand exists to argue against. A well-chosen donated lot, run properly, raises more for the charity than a bought-in lot with a high reserve, and we never supply lots ourselves.
Is the platform really free if we book Kevin?
Yes. Book Kevin as your auctioneer and host and the whole platform is included, built around your event, in your branding. There is no percentage, no per-guest fee and no payment charge added by us.
Can we book you just for the night?
The evening is sold as one engagement, because the total depends on decisions made months before anyone picks up a microphone.
Do you work outside the UK?
Yes. Europe and the United States, including a Monte Carlo gala that raised over €1 million in a single evening. Most work is UK-based.
No obligation, and never a percentage of what you raise
Let’s talk about your number.
A conversation about your event, your room, and what the night should be raising.
Book a discovery call→Or hire Kevin directly as your auctioneer and host at thecharityauctioneer.uk. Book him, and the platform is free.