{"id":449,"date":"2009-06-22T09:28:29","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T08:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/?p=449"},"modified":"2009-06-29T12:08:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T11:08:21","slug":"charity-benefit-from-auctioneers-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/charity-benefit-from-auctioneers-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity benefit from auctioneer&#8217;s magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/charity-magic.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-451\" title=\"charity-magic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/\/charity-magic.bmp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Magicians.co.uk was proud to perform at a fundraising event for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breastcancerhaven.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Breast Cancer Haven<\/a> last week. The event, \u2018Blush Magic\u2019 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magiccirclevenue.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Magic Circle Headquarters<\/a> was hosted by the charity which offers support, information and complimentary therapies to those affected by breast cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Guests were treated to a full\u00a0<span class=\"375483913-18062009\">stage <\/span>show\u00a0<span class=\"375483913-18062009\">featuring mind readers and pickpockets followed by\u00a0a fine dinner <\/span>with sleight of hand magic<span class=\"375483913-18062009\">ians<\/span> perform<span class=\"375483913-18062009\">ing<\/span> at each\u00a0table. Our own James Freedman\u00a0<span class=\"375483913-18062009\">also <\/span>acted as charity auctioneer and conjured up bids for a range of exciting lots including a five star Himalayan Spa holiday and a sculpture from the senior Royal Academician, James Butler MBE RA. Kat Hopps, Event Executive at the charity said, \u2018We raised in excess of \u00a340,000 at the event which will make such a huge difference to our work. Everyone is truly delighted and James is certainly one of the best if not the best auctioneer, we have had the privilege to work with.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Unsurprisingly, James is an expert on \u2018The Art of Persuasion\u2019 and often lectures on the subject to business audiences!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Charity supporter and socialite Henry Conway spoke eloquently about the work of Breast Cancer Haven and donated an evening\u2019s hospitality package at <a href=\"www.mahiki.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mahiki<\/a>, the Mayfair club frequented by Prince William and Prince Harry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">Breast Cancer Haven is a splendid charity, to find out more or make a donation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breastcancerhaven.org\/support.php?parent=56\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/\/<!--\nvar addthis_append_data = 'false';\n\/\/-->\n<\/script>\n<div class=\"addthis_container\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=wp-4c32e42a5d9c79e6\" class=\"addthis_button\" addthis:url=\"https%3A%2F%2Fmagicians.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fcharity-benefit-from-auctioneers-magic%2F\" addthis:title=\"Charity+benefit+from+auctioneer%26%238217%3Bs+magic\"><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js#username=wp-4c32e42a5d9c79e6\"><\/script><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Button END -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Magicians.co.uk was proud to perform at a fundraising event for Breast Cancer Haven last week. The event, \u2018Blush Magic\u2019 at The Magic Circle Headquarters was hosted by the charity which offers support, information and complimentary therapies to those affected by breast cancer. \u00a0 Guests were treated to a full\u00a0stage show\u00a0featuring mind readers and pickpockets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magic-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicians.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}