Hi,

This post is a bit different and if it upsets people then I am sorry. (But will only blog like this if it is very important and it will not be a regular thing).

While out in our village today I met a young mum, and she was asking me about using ebay to raise money to buy a hearing aid for her two year old girl. These aids cost around £1,000 each.
She knew I did eBay and that I was an education specialist, and asked for some advice, but she explained she could not pay me a lot as she did not have much. I told her I would help out at no cost.

I spent some time today chatting with her and showing her eBay and other online places where she could raise money. I also explained how we could write to local firms and VIP’s and ask them to donate items for the auction.

When I got home I thought what else could I do, and I thought I Know I will do a blog post and put a PayPal donation button in it.


If you feel able to help in any way by donating any item either big or small, I shall add it to the fund – and I have also told her she needs to open a special bank account where she puts this money and it needs to have several people sign it. Until this has been set up the money shall stay in my own PayPal Account, in case things do not work out, and I shall return the funds to people if this is the case. Sorry to put a negative side to this, but you do need to be so careful these days. action Once again if you feel you can help here is the donation button.