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Making money for club funds.
I thought you might interested in an event, we are having next week, to raise money for club funds.
Every year the http://www.berkshirewoodturners.org.uk/ hold an auction. We ask members to riffle through their garages and workshops for unused tools, woodturning magazines, that 'wonder' tool that didn't work for them and any other unused workshop items. They bring them to the meeting and we auction them off.
In addition we have a member who has a Woodmister and kindly mills trees into blanks. The evening starts around a trailer in the car park where the blanks are auctioned. This year we will have laburnum, yew, mimosa and possibly beech.
To speed the auction of the wood we tried a Dutch Auction last year. The idea being that the auctioneer proposed a high offer bid. If no one responds the bid is reduced until there is a taker. The taker can now take his pick of any and as many pieces, at the offer price, as he wishes. Once he has finish, any others who responded now take their turn, in order. The offer bid is reduced and proceeds until the price gets silly.
Last year we made over £600.
More fun than an evening at bingo and a good chance of going home with a bargin that does not need a Wonga loan.
I thought you might interested in an event, we are having next week, to raise money for club funds.
Every year the http://www.berkshirewoodturners.org.uk/ hold an auction. We ask members to riffle through their garages and workshops for unused tools, woodturning magazines, that 'wonder' tool that didn't work for them and any other unused workshop items. They bring them to the meeting and we auction them off.
In addition we have a member who has a Woodmister and kindly mills trees into blanks. The evening starts around a trailer in the car park where the blanks are auctioned. This year we will have laburnum, yew, mimosa and possibly beech.
To speed the auction of the wood we tried a Dutch Auction last year. The idea being that the auctioneer proposed a high offer bid. If no one responds the bid is reduced until there is a taker. The taker can now take his pick of any and as many pieces, at the offer price, as he wishes. Once he has finish, any others who responded now take their turn, in order. The offer bid is reduced and proceeds until the price gets silly.
Last year we made over £600.
More fun than an evening at bingo and a good chance of going home with a bargin that does not need a Wonga loan.
