2025 Charity Auction
2024 Charity Total – £2805!!!
This year for our Charity Auction, we’re excited to support Sophie’s Legacy once again. Many of us know families whose children have needed hospital care, and for some, Sophie’s Legacy has made a big difference. As a locally founded charity with a meaningful mission, we’re proud to continue our support.
Join us for a fast-paced, chaotic event where we’ll showcase an array of incredible items – from plushies and artwork to autographed items and even some parts of the convention itself (no pizzas though, sorry)!
To donate an item to the auction, please bring it to our Auction table in the Vendors area! For those not attending who still wish to make a donation, please Contact Us so we can arrange this – remote auction submissions can be physical items which must be mailed to us in advance of the event, artwork commissions or digital items.
Our 2025 Charity
In memory of a remarkable young girl who touched so many lives
Sophie’s Legacy was created in memorial of Sophie Fairall and the legacy of change she wanted to create.
Sophie had just turned 9 when she was diagnosed with a rare form of childhood cancer called Rhabdomyosarcoma in September 2020. During her treatment, she endured 9 rounds of intense chemotherapy and 7 weeks of radiotherapy.
Sophie never managed to get into remission and in June 2021, after only eight weeks on a programme of maintenance chemotherapy, she relapsed. With no treatment options left Sophie passed away aged 10, in September 2021, just 1 year after her diagnosis.
During her treatment, Sophie set out writing her bucket list and was able to achieve some incredible experiences. She also wanted to change a number of things nationally and wrote these on her bucket list for her mother to achieve in her memory.
Her Legacy
Sophie wanted the following things changed and this will be her legacy in memory of a remarkable young girl who touched so many lives:
- Play specialist 7 days a week in hospitals
- Improvements to food for children in hospital
- For parents to be fed when staying with their child
- For GP’s, nurses and health professionals to be trained in childhood cancer
- To increase the funds (currently 3%) in childhood cancer research
Hospitals Served by Sophie’s Legacy
Sophie’s Legacy charity currently provides snack and toiletry boxes to children’s ward and neonatal wards in 10 hospitals across the South of England. This includes hospitals in Southampton, Portsmouth, Sutton, Chichester, Guildford, Basingstoke, Winchester, Salisbury, The Isle of Wight and Dorset.