Philanthropic Recycling for the 21st Century. Charities Trust welcomes an exciting and unique website www.buyoncegivetwice.co.uk

A new an unique online auction site www.buyoncegivetwice.co.uk is urging charities to maximise their fundraising form auctions. The site helps organisations by simply recycling luxury auction lots "waste" at no cost to charity.

Generally when a charity holds an auction, its supporters pay thousands of pounds for a luxurious and often unique prize. However, frequently the supporter is to busy and does not have time to redeem their prize. This prize simply doesn't get used but through BuyOnceGiveTwice it is recycled making more money for charity.

With the launch of BuyOnceGiveTwice, the purchaser can contact the site and re-auction the lot for charity. The original charity will receive 60% of the resale value and once re-sold, the new purchaser nominates their favourite charity to receive the other 30%.

In other cases, where charities contact BuyOnceGiveTwice directly with lots that are returned to them by the purchaser to re-sell lots that don't sell at auction or cases where the purchaser defaults, the charity will receive nearly 90% of the re-sale value. BuyOnceGiveTwice uses the adminsitration charge to help with the costs of running and developing the website on behafl fo the chartities. This truly is philanthropic recycling for 21st Century.

Charities Trust thinks this is a brilliant and innovative idea, but here is what the people who thought up the idea have to say.

Founder Mia Woodford: 'I have a long history with charity events and auctions, and along with my business partner Emma Leschallas became increasingly frustrated at the thousands of charity auction lots being left unclaimed each year. BuyOnceGiveTwice is a simple idea that will help charities effortlessly increase their fundraising revenue.'

Emma continues: We have a unique proposition to bidders - how else could the public have access to these kinds of exclusive items? We handle everything from listing and marketing the items to taking payment and dispatching the items, so the charity hardly lifts a finger. It's a win-win situation for charities - they can hand over the responsibility for dealing with unredeemed lots to someone else and at the same time raise huge amounts of money.

Some of the major charities signed up to this idea straight away and here are just a few of the ones taking advantage of this unique auctioning site.

Breast Cancer Campaign, Orchid, Ovarian Cancer Action and Starlight.

Take a look at the online site now! www.buyoncegivetwice.co.uk