auction in croft 22ND APRIL 2012

DARLINGTON TROPICAL FISH BUY SELL AND SWAP FACEBOOK GROUP ARE HOLDING A TROPICAL FISH AUCTION IN THE CROFT CLUB HURWORTH ROAD HURWORTH PLACE NEAR DARLINGTON
APRIL 22nd 2012
STARTS 11:30
LOTS BOOK IN FROM 10:00 a.m.
TO PREBOOK PLEASE RING LAURA ON:- 07971 075 169
NO ENTRY FEE
NO RE-BAGGING FEE
15% COMMISION CHARGE ON ITEMS SOLD IN ORDER TO COVER COSTS
AMPLE PARKING
EASY ACCESS
LICENSED BAR AVAILABLE

TRY TO SUPPORT IT PLEASE IT WOULD BE NICE TO GET AN ANNUAL AUCTION IN THIS AREA

DIRECTIONS FROM TEES-SIDE TO THE AUCTION ARE AS FOLLOWS:- A66 TO DARLINGTON BYPASS FOLLOW IT ROUND TO THE ROUNDABOUT AT EVANS HALSHAW GARAGE (SIGNPOSTS SAY TO A1 SOUTH) THEN FOLLOW A167 TOWARDS NORTHALLERTON WHEN YOU COME INTO HURWORTH PLACE/ CROFT YOU WILL SEE THE COMET PUB TURN LEFT AND IMMEDIATELY RIGHT INTO THE CLUB CAR PARK SIGNPOSTED CROFT WORKINGMENS CLUB

well just had the news today from Laura
the auction IS going ahead as planned but she has just been charged £120 for a pet shop licence to operate the auction by darlington borough council
this licence will last for a year and is a premises licence so Laura will be organising more auctions using the same venue throughout the year in order to get her money's worth.
Laura has advertised this auction as free entry and is going to honour this statement but will obviously have to charge an entry fee for any future auctions. I can find no problems with either of those things and will be suggesting to her that she puts a bucket at the door for people to throw loose change into as a donation on a voluntary basis.
However the way to avoid the pet shop licence fee is to make every person attending auctions a member of the society and charge a membership fee of £1 as they enter the building, again due to the short notice given by the council after they found out about the auction, Laura has decided that this is not fair to people planning to attend on sunday, but will be prepared to consider it for future auctions.
The only good to come out of this is that at least we are guaranteed that there will be another auction in out area this year.
please, if possible could members who are free attend these auctions in order that the auction circuit survives throughout the north east.
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