Reverse Rett Winter Gala Dinner

Total Raised: 26,498

We absolutely love supporting the Reverse Rett Winer Gala and have been doing so for several years now.

For those that don’t know, ‘Rett Syndrome’ is a neurological condition which most often strikes healthy little girls between their first and second birthday leaving them, heartbreakingly, with multiple disabilities and complexities for life.

‘Reverse Rett’ is a patient advocacy and research organisation focused on delivering treatments and a cure for Rett Syndrome to everyone that has been affected. To continue their research to find a cure for Rett Syndrome, they need funding, and one of their biggest sources of funding is the Reverse Rett Winer Gala, which is where we offer our Silent Auction service to help them maximise their fundraising.

Auction Platform Selection

The chosen platform for this event was a hybrid of Auction Tablets at the event, and then an Online Auction website pre-event, which included additional tabs for event information, sponsorship logos, thank you’s and tickets sales.

Tickets sales is an important part of any event and our online auction solution has the functionality for your guests to purchase tickets to attend your event through our platform. This is a great way of keeping all your data and income in one place, which we are happy to control for you or have all the funds go into your account. You can also have access to the back end of the platform so you can pull your own reports if you wanted too.

For the Reverse Rett Winer Ball, ticket sales went live 6 months prior to the event, and over 300 tickets were sold through the platform. The website was branded all per Reverse Rett’s specifications, including the additional tabs mentioned above, as well as a pledge page for guests to make donations, and a raffle page for guests to purchase raffle tickets ahead of the event.

Pre-Event Auction Launch

Two weeks prior to the event, the online auction tab went live to encourage bidding pre-event. To make an online auction pre-event successful, it all comes down to how well it can be marketed. Reverse Rett did an amazing job of promoting this to their supporters, which no doubt contributed the enormous success the Winter Gala was.

Event Night Management

In addition to the above, on the night of the Winter Gala, we attended the event with an Event Manager, Tech Manager plus 3 Support Staff who were on hand to promote the silent auction. There was 2 tablets placed on every table, as well as leader board built into an existing screen at the venue, which notified guests in attendance every time a new bid was placed.

At the end of the event, a text message was sent to each winning bidder to notify them of their winning bid and thank them for their generosity to Reverse Rett. We also collected all of the payments on Silent Auction bids and had all of the funds raised with Reverse Rett days after the event had finished.

A Star Experience Event Follow Up

Finally, as we always do at all our events that include A Star Experience items within their lot list, our After Care Team will help your guests get booked in for their experiences anytime over the next 12 months (which is the standard validity period on the majority of experiences).

The Reverse Rett Winter Gala is a truly emotional, heart-warming evening, for an incredible cause, in the fight against Rett Syndrome, that we are truly proud to be a part of. We are so honoured to be their fundraising partner over the last few years and are delighted to say that in the auction service alone last year, we raised £26,498.20! Can’t wait for next year already!

Testimonial:

“Reverse Rett have formed a great and successful partnership with Josh and the team at A Star over the last few years. Josh has continually delivered a professional service and have fully embraced the ethos of our charity which you can really tell with the service that he provides, and it’s so evident that he wants to help us maximise our fundraising.

Reverse Rett are extremely selective with the partners that we choose to worth with and always ensure that we exhaust the market to find the right fit. A Star over exceeded our expectations every time, and more recently helped us to put together our first ever Online Event with us not being able to run our usual Gala Dinner which was a fantastic achievement given the circumstances. We are now back with live, in person events, and it’s our pleasure to partner with A Star again to help us deliver yet another successful event. Thanks to the A Star Team!”

– Beth Johnson, Reverse Rett

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