Fingers is a fantastic performer - you don't realise just how much money you’ve been separated from until it’s far too late!

Sir Tim Rice

Thank you for being our auctioneer at the Starlight Ball... your skills as an auctioneer are superb... thank you for using them to raise the very maximum from the Grand Auction.

Niel Swan, Chief Executive, Starlight Children's Foundation

Thank you so much for doing such a splendid auction at the Spring Lunch. I doubt if anyone could have surpassed your efforts.

Mark Williams, Chief Executive, The Lord’s Taverners

It was a remarkable achievement to raise the amount that you did through the auction.

Mike Aaronson, Director General, Save the Children

'Fabulous Fingers!': How on earth you managed to raise so much money at our auction, we will never know – you were brilliant!

Belinda Groves, Dorton House / Crystal Ball Committee

On behalf of the Lady Taverners, thank you so much for conducting such a brilliant auction yet again at the Baroness Thatcher lunch

Margaret Price, Director, The Lady Taverners

Thank you both for the fantastic job at being our MC, and for running the auction, which was a huge success. The audience responded so well to your enthusiastic presence ... you created a great sense of competition and humour with your clever commentary.

Charlotte Minoprio, Corporate Development Manager,SPARKS

I would have no hesitation in recommending "Fingers" for any Charity Auction – he never fails to out-perform

Neil Swan, Chief Executive, Starlight Children’s Foundation

Thank you so much for your outstanding performance ... the proceeds far exceeded our expectations. You really are a star and the charities were privileged to have you batting for them!

Ray Stenning, Director of Appeals, SSAFA-Forces Help

Thank you so very much for being such a marvellous auctioneer ... You completely stole the show and grabbed everyone’s attention perfectly, before persuading them to part with their cash. We could not have made the magnificent sum raised without your experience and skill.

Angie Barker, Head of Fundraising, Aspire

You did a superb job running the auction at our Valentine’s Ball ... I have had a number of complimentary remarks on the excellence of our auctioneer.

David Drysdale, Chief Executive, St. John Ambulance London (PoW) District

Congratulations on such a successful auction - the amount raised exceeded our expectations by at least 100%. Think of a number - Fingers will double it!

Chris Atkinson, Chief Executive, Brian Johnston Memorial Trust

Thank you for stepping in with the auction at our Charity Race Day last Saturday - we have raised the splendid sum of £56,000 - not a bad outcome!

Stuart Errington, CBE, JP, Chairman, Berkshire Blue Sky Appeal, Mencap

The efforts you’ve put into helping us raise money for our local charities these past few years are enormously appreciated - thank you and well played!

Michael Teden OBE, Co-Chairman, Charlotte Cricket Festival, North Carolina, USA

Thank you for your enormous contribution to the Spinal Injuries Association Christmas Balls over a number of years. Our grand totals were only that large because of the huge amount from the auctions.

Simon Melluish, Chairman, SIA Christmas Ball

Your expertise as an auctioneer was fantastic – thank you very much

Rachael Heyhoe-Flint, MBE,DL, President, The Lady Taverners

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John "Fingers" Fingleton has undertaken approaching 300 Charity/Fundraising auctions, raising over £4 million for numerous worthwhile causes and has attracted a welter of glittering testimonials.

He works frequently for The Lord's - and Lady - Taverners, the national charity for cricket. The other multitude of charities he has assisted include the Alzheimer's Society, Animal Health Trust, ASPIRE (Association for Spinal Injury), Breast Cancer Care, Brian Johnston Memorial Trust, British Forces Foundation, British-Kazakhstan Society, Bunburys Cricket Club, Burma Star, Cancer Research, Chase, Children in Crisis, Co-operation Ireland, Countryside Alliance, DebRA, Guildford Rotary, Hedgehog Care, Great Ormond Street, Happy Child Foundation/Thailand, Joshua Foundation, Leukaemia Busters, The Lord Mayor of London's Appeal, Martlets' Hospice, Mencap, Nieue Bethesda Arts Foundation/South Africa, Orchid Cancer Appeal, the Prince's Trust, RADAR, Red Cross Children's Hospital/South Africa, Royal London Society for the Blind, Royal Marsden, Royal Star & Garter Home, SSAFA-Forces Help, St. John Ambulance, Saracens Foundation, Save the Children, Spinal Injuries Association, SPARKS, Spitti Himalayas. Projects, Starlight Children's Foundation, Teenage Cancer Trust, UK Brain Tumour Society, Unicef, Wellbeing, Veninos (Venezuelan Children in Need), YouthNet, and rugby's Wooden Spoon Society, and a number of school appeals, including Francis Holland, Reed's, Stowe, and the Jan Kriel School in Cape Town. He has been privileged to mount the rostrum at Sotheby's, whilst work overseas has aided, inter alia, Preventing Child Abuse in North Carolina, USA, the Lord's Taverners in Australia and, in South Africa, the Pirates Club in Johannesburg and the Johannesburg Sportsman's Club.

He has helped to raise substantial sums for leading cricketers during their Benefit years, including Andrew (Freddie) Flintoff, former England captains Mike Gatting, Graham Gooch, Nasser Hussain and Mark Butcher, as well as Mark Ramprakash, Phil Tufnell, Nick Knight, Shaun Udal, Paul Weekes, Martin and Darren Bicknell, Mike Roseberry, Peter Bowler, Peter Such, Ronnie Irani, Paul Grayson and Raj Maru; rugby stars Martin Johnson, Lawrence Dallaglio and Richard Hill; Spurs and England footballer Gary Mabbutt; and Middlesex, Essex, Hampshire and Surrey Cricket Clubs, as well as the Primary Club.

Among his attributes - belied, perhaps, by his appearance! - are speed (there is nothing duller and less successful than a slow auction) and an ability to "relate" to his audience, so persuading many to pay up far more than they had ever envisaged - for items they never even knew they wanted!

Other services include MC-ing fundraising lunches/dinners/events and managing other fundraising techniques, including the ubiquitously popular "Heads & Tails" game. He also undertakes P/A, commentary and compering duties and chairs discussion panels at cricket matches, lunches, dinners and other events, sporting or otherwise, for commercial, corporate and social occasions. He regularly chairs the monthly "LTITM" (Last Tuesday in the Month) lunches at the Cricketers Club of London, when the guest of honour is invariably a celebrated representative from the world of cricket.

A modest commission is normally chargeable which, as he usually comfortably exceeds his clients' best expectations, is invariably much more than covered by his achievements. He is also able to source items from a vast collection of signed and authenticated memorabilia from the worlds of sport, music, show-business, art, politics and current affairs, contemporary or historical, and supply them at agreed "sale or return" prices. Net proceeds above reserve prices are shared with the charity.

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