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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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