The site assists good causes via auctioning signed memorabilia from the likes of Ian Botham, Shane Warne, David Beckham, Michael Owen etc.

Nick told us: "We've expanded the causes we've helped and recently raised £2k for ex England footballer Matthew Le Tissier's chosen charity via an auction of one of his signed shirts. We also helped World Cup star Niall Quinn's fundraising efforts via the auction of two signed shirts two weeks ago which again went really well. We will also be helping the Andy Cole Children's Foundation over the coming weeks and months, and working with a number of other good causes.

In addition to this position I'm also fundraiser for national disabled children's charity the ACE Centre Advisory Trust (www.ace-centre.org.uk) one of the charities to have benefited from the site. Others include the Variety Club Of Great Britain, and the National Institute of Conductive Education based in Birmingham.

Bid4sport provides this service for free to good causes, unlike other sites who charge charities 5-15% commission!! Bid4sport having commercial areas that subsidise the free service."

Le Tissier Story

Nick went on: "The response to bid4sport has been fantastic and we now have over 10,000 members which obviously are very targeted towards sport and memorabilia. We've kindly been supported by the likes of Freeserve.com, CIS.co.uk, official club sites and also football site giant soccernet.com. Soccernet which is owned by Disney have been exceptional in their support and we recently ran the following 'World Cup Draw Of A Lifetime' which had a fantastic response."

Bid4sport has also received coverage in national and local media, the specialist sport and fundraising press and coverage on a host of online sporting sites.

The site has also been fortunate enough to have been supported by the likes of Denis Bergkamp, Kirsty Gallacher and Darren Gough each of which signed 100 limited edition prints for the site.

The Gallery

This week bid4sport has a cricket theme with signed items from the likes of Ian Botham and the late great Sir Donald Bradman. Nick said: "As part of our Cricket theme we have teamed up with new English Cricket Competitions magazine 'Stumped' in a simple quiz / competition where the prizes are signed bats from the England and India teams currently embroiled in the Test series, and which include the prize signature of Sachin Tendulkar."

This fantastic competition can be found here.