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Know-how for anyone organising an auction night, from planning to settling up.

How long should a charity auction last?

Allow forty-five to seventy-five minutes of actual bidding inside a three-hour evening, sell twenty lots ra…

A hall of a hundred people fits about twenty lots, so pick promises over objects, keep one lot that many pe…

The ten mistakes that cost volunteer-run charity auctions the most money, from too many lots to slow paymen…

A school auction guide for parents' associations: the lots that work, class art projects, teacher experienc…

A charity auction checklist for volunteers: the final week, the day, the hour before doors, what goes wrong…

Twelve to twenty lots is the sweet spot for a charity auction. Why more lots raise less, what too few costs…

Silent handles volume and shy bidders, live handles your best three lots. The arithmetic behind each, how t…

The full arc of a volunteer charity auction: six weeks of planning, twelve to twenty lots, format, starting…

Running one yourself?

Setting it up costs nothing, and you can rehearse the whole evening before you decide.