Charity Auction

So on last week Friday I held the 1st of my 2 charity events that I had planned. It was a charity auction, and being auctioned off were some of Cape Towns hottest hunks! Not only hunks, but weekends away, spa treatments, dinner and show vouchers, clothing vouchers and a very exclusive item from Colonial House(a hand carved ceolocanth).

The venue I chose for the auction was Crew Bar, Cape Town's most popular gay bar. I chose Crew as I felt gay men would be more likely to bid for hunks and they would have more free spending power.
I also chose this venue as part of my message that I dont believe in labelling people, segregating, discrimination or boxing people into groups. I dont care wether you are gay or straight, black or white, male or female, rich or poor, or that matters is to me is wether you live your life with integrity and positivity.

Myself and the manager of the club, Matt, were set to be the hosts and auctioneers for the night. I was set to be auctioned off at the end, and I had 3 other hunks to auction off, my best friend, a professional footballer and Chris MacGregor, a Mr Gay SA finalist. The winning bidders would get to take the hunk out to dinner and just dinner;) The hunks went down well and each of the other hunks went for a R1000 each.

Even though the club was packed, unfortunately the other items were very difficult to auction for a value that represented their worth. Thats why not all items could be auctioned. I had a R2500 weekend away that I could not get R500 for, so it was not auctioned off for example. So when it came time for me to be auctioned, I knew I had to do something! I did a slow strip(not my pants obviously) and really worked the crowd, urging them to bid and making them want to bid. In the end I was auctioned off for R2700.

The hand carved ceolocanth was also sold for a good price, so all in all the charity auction was a success! It was a fun filled evening held by all and some good money was made for Ons Huis. I also learnt a lot about auctions and that its hard to get people to give to charity, even when they can get something for a steal. I also confirmed something about myself, that I am a good public speaker, as one of the guests works for Top Billing and after the auction he asked me to come in for an audition for Top Billing. So all the planning, sponsorship hunting and marketing had paid off.

The 1st event was a success :)