JANUARY 4, 2012
Once in a lifetime experiences auction closes January 9 2012
Huge Hits On Trademe For Charity Auction With
Neil Finn, Peter Jackson, Sonny Bill, Weta Workshop And More
Over 350,000 hits from all over the world have been recorded for unique charity auction items on Trademe - which include
advice and studio time with Crowded House’s Neil Finn, on set with The Hobbit and Peter Jackson, immortalizing your face
at Richard Taylor’s Weta Workshop and Sonny Bill Williams and his shorts plus a number of other brilliant personal
experiences.
The hits on the Neil Finn auction item alone are 200,000.
The Stars Come Out For Christmas charity auction is to raise money for Sir Ray Avery’s charity Medicine Mondiale Neil
Finn is an Ambassador for the charity Medicine Mondiale.
Residents of New Zealand and Australia can freely bid on New Zealand’s Trademe and bids can be taken from all over the
world if interested parties have people to nominate and bid on their behalf.
Auction closes Monday January 9 2012.
“The interest that has been shown in the auction is very humbling and a total knockout,” said Sir Ray Avery, “ and we
are looking to it being a huge success through the generosity of all this amazing talent, again showing none of us are
as clever and talented as all of us!”
Medicine Mondiale and Sir Ray Avery create innovative and low cost solutions to health problems in the developing world.
Recently they have developed a new product for infant nutrition called Proteinforte, which is a global breakthrough in
dealing with malnutrition, and the auction continues the fund raising to build a factory in Nepal to produce the
product.
It is always been Sir Ray’s and Medicine Mondiale’s way to put the technology and spin off commercial benefits straight
in the hands of people in areas that are in need. This product could potentially help millions with malnutrition as it
is made from byproducts and more easily absorbed than any current formula.
List of items to date
Two days in Roundhead Studios in Auckland with Neil Finn from Crowded House giving some production advice.
Visit to The Hobbit set in Wellington for two people - lunch with cast and crew and time with Sir Peter Jackson
Sonny Bill Williams. Be a guest at his first game, for the Chiefs, meet the man himself and be gifted the shorts he wore
for the game.
Weta Workshops. Face immortalised by world experts in face casting which will become a work of art.
Ultimate BBQ. Star studded Barbeque at your place.
Leigh Hart (That Guy) Sir Peter Leitch (The Mad Butcher) and Oscar Kightley will come to your place and cook for you and
your friends.
With meat provided by Sir Peter.
A tour of the Auckland Art Gallery with artist Dick Frizzell as your guide.
Otis Frizzell. A personally designed tattoo.
Mike McRoberts of TV3. Visit to the studio and watch the news go out.
Shortland Street. Lunch at the studio with actors from Shortland Street and a personal set tour.
Carol Hirschfield & John Campbell lunch and visits to Maori TV and TV3
Award winning illustrator Anna Crichton’s Mermaids art commissioned for Metro Magazine.
ends