About Us

Bid4charities has one simple aim, to help charities and worthy causes raise funds. We achieve this by creating online auctions, raffles and competitions. Bid4Charities provides the organisations we choose to work with, access to unrivalled merchandise, memorabilia and experiences. These are supplied directly from the celebrities and brands, with full provenance and authenticity.

Customer reviews

Customer reviews

“Backdrop Promotions provided some fantastic memorabilia & experiences for our charity Auction"
— Graham Roberts - Ex-Tottenham Hotspur & Rangers

A Dynamic & Experienced Team

A Dynamic & Expericed Team

Dominic Manning

Founder and Managing Director

With over 28 years’ experience within the memorabilia business, Dominic is a real hands-on director at Backdrop Promotions. He has a passion for the industry, fundraising, events, and loves nothing more than seeing happy clients on the day. A keen golfer and traveller, nothing delights Dominic more than exceeding in terms of all clients’ expectations.

Tara Pope

Business Development Director

Tara works closely with our co-founders to implement strategic business development plans, helping us achieve our goals. She is responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with our clients and partners, ensuring we continue to grow and expand our operations, and importantly the substantial funds we raise for good causes. One of Tara's key strengths is her personable nature. She takes the time to understand the needs of the good causes we support, to learn about their challenges, goals, and works to develop tailored solutions to help them achieve success.

Lester Freeman

Experiences Manager

With access to a database of over 1,000 experiences, it is Lester’s job to ensure the correct type and price range of experiences is custom made to suit your requirements. With prices ranging from £50 to over £100,000, Lester ensures there are experiences suitable to every budget, with new and fresh experiences that are appropriate for specific guests and events.

Esme Matthews

Event Staffing Coordinator

Esme is our longest serving employee and has been with the company from the very beginning. Her career background is in event management and service staff training. Esme works with our team to make them aware of your event, organisation and requirements, to ensure your day, or evening runs smoothly.

Alison Manning

Event Staff

Alison helps with the liaison of events and is the head of our accounts department. She ensures we have your correct information, reporting processes are in place, all reports are created in a timely manner, and the figures add up. In addition, you will find that Alison always ensures payments are made swiftly.

Brooke Adams-Freeman

Event Staff

Brooke is the newest and youngest member of our team.

Young and dynamic, Brooke is one of our sales team who ozes energy. Being creative and level headed, Brooke assists in all areas supporting the sales team at events.

Steve Sampson

Commercial Director

Steve has a wealth of experience in conservation and charities. He was the inspiration behind ‘Project Life Lion’ in 1994, to save the lives of many thousands of wild animals in East Africa from a Canine Distemper Virus epidemic. It raised over $10million and still operates today as ‘Afya Serengeti’. Steve is the commercial director at Prove Anything.

Bid4Charities is proud to be a member of https://www.aftal.org.uk – The Autograph Fair Trade Association, whose Code of Conduct commits each AFTAL approved dealer to provide authentic items, with all the required knowledge, qualification and diligence, giving collectors and buyers comfort when buy authentic signed memorabilia.

With combined experience of over 40 years within the memorabilia industry and access to over 1,500 exciting experiences, Backdrop Promotions gives you comfort to donate to your chosen charities in very unique way.