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The Welcome Auction is one of our main annual fundraisers.

WELCOME AUCTION

It’s quite simple: Rhodes Scholars who are leaving Oxford donate their stuff to us over the summer, and then we resell it to incoming Scholars in the autumn! All the money raised goes to RSSAF, we save useful stuff from going into landfills, and we offer incoming Scholars a convenient opportunity to get the stuff they need shortly after their arrival!

This year we raised £1900 for RSSAF at the Welcome Auction! Thanks to all who donated, attended, bid, and bought!

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Unfortunately we cannot accept foodstuffs, alcohol or bedlinen. Otherwise we’d like anything that would be useful to those arriving/currently living in Oxford. We especially call on you to donate bicycles (we’ve even had a car donated once before!) which are highly sought after by those arriving.

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And even if you weren’t planning to sell your stuff, why bother with the hassle of dragging it with you when you can get brand new shiny stuff wherever you go? If you leave what you don’t need to RSSAF, we’ll turn it into community enterprise funding in places like Zimbabwe, Uganda, South Africa, and elsewhere!

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PROMISES AUCTION

The Promises Auction gives Rhodes Scholars the opportunity to share their ideas, talents, and homewade wares. The event consists of a live auction and a silent auction in which Scholars bid on the “promises” of other Scholars. In previous years we have had scholars promising everything from:

  • Swim lessons from the Oxford swim team coach

  • A sushi dinner for six

  • Homemade cookies every month for a year

  • Southern African Mega Braai or Aussie Barbecue

  • Pirate punting with Pimms

  • Breakfast in bed

In the past this event has raised up to £5000, and has been THE fundraising drive of the year for RSSAF!

It’s fun. Its for a good cause. There will be food and drinks, and of course an opportunity to sit back and relish each others bizarre, practical, strange and often times entertaining promises.

This event usually takes place at the end of Hilary Term.

Details about how to make a promise will be posted during Hilary Term!

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