This Sunday, the Toresky studio hosts its traditional charity auction of objects donated by personalities from the cultural, political and sporting fields. Among them, the legendary beret stands out, the dress she wore at the 2018 Sónar Festival or the tie that Salvador Illa wore at his inauguration as president of the Generalitat of Catalonia. The money raised before will be used to purchase toys for boys and girls at risk of social exclusion in Barcelona. At 8:00 p.m. this Sunday the event (No child without a toy) will begin, which this year has allocated a batch of toys valued at 5,000 euros to boys and girls in Paiporta, one of the municipalities hardest hit by the floods in Valencia.
Rosalía repeats for the third consecutive year in No Child Without a Toy with the auction of a dress designed by Palomo Spain that she wore during the presentation of her album The Bad Wantand which plans to help overcome the , which reached 53,965 euros. The Catalan singer has generated great expectations in this edition. The previous dress reached 7,000 euros and the helmet for the presentation of her album Motomami It achieved the record figure of 8,200 euros in 2022.
Sources from Ràdio Barcelona have reported that the list has 60 objects, among which are the clapperboard from the film The 47signed by the actors and the director, Marcel Barrena; the boots signed by Lamine Yamal, Aitana Bonmatí or Rodri Hernández; or a historical Barcelona metro poster from the Urquinaona stop. “So far we have raised 4,000 euros, but the bulk of the tenders always accumulate on Three Kings Night itself. We estimate that this year we will reach about 7,000 boys and girls through 40 social entities,” say sources from the organization.
In the sporting field, Dani Olmo’s boots stand out especially for the prominence he is acquiring as a Barça player and for the media hype that surrounds him. The jewel in Barça’s crown has also donated some signed boots, which have silk-screened details such as 304, the last three numbers of the postal code of the Rocafonda neighborhood in Mataró, where the young promise grew up. They also have the flags of Morocco and Equatorial Guinea, countries of origin of their parents, engraved on them. The winner of the last two Ballon d’Ors, Aitana Bonmatí, has also donated some boots that can be bid on.
It will have Rosa Badia as moderator and will last until two in the morning. Voices like Pablo Tallón, Anna Puigboltas or Sique Rodríguez will not miss the event either. In this edition, personalities from the world of communication will participate, such as Jordi Basté (RAC1), Helena García Melero (TV3) and the television critic Bob Pop. The programming, which can be followed through all SER frequencies in Catalonia and in streaming on Cadena SER’s YouTube, it will include musical performances by Pot Petit, Litus or Hermana de Andrés.
The campaign is more than half a century old. It was born in 1967 in the Poblenou neighborhood, promoted by the Casino l’Aliança. Ràdio Barcelona joined the initiative and the collaboration with the support of Barcelona City Council and El Corte Inglés has turned the project into the oldest toy collection in Catalonia. You can collaborate through Bizzum by entering the code 06678 in the “make a donation” section in the bank’s application.
