UK Silver Pourers Charity Silver Bar(s) Raffle Supporting The Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal - STAGE 1 THREAD

[BackyardBullion]

Howdy all!

We have an exciting new project that I am happy to formally announce in partnership with some incredibly talented UK Silver Pourers .

@StBeesSilver @RiverbankSilver @SilverAngel @LiquidMetalsUK @AtomicSilver @GeordieStacker and myself are going to be creating a collaboration Silver Bar to raffle off to raise funds for The Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal. @ChrisSilver Has approved this to be managed and run via The Silver Forum, a big thanks for that!

We are looking at adding additional UK pourers too - any new confirmations will be shared out here on this thread in due course. 

The Red Cross Appeal is a very worthy cause right now and one that will bring a lot of much needed aid to a lot of people. 

https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-crisis-appeal

Check them out and please feel free to donate outside of this raffle too!

Now, we are working out all of the particulars and this thread serves as STAGE 1

STAGE 1 - Adding Weight - 1 week 

Each UK Silver Pourer is donating 1 ozt of silver but we are open for anyone else to donate additional oz's of silver to make more bars and bigger bars. 

The plan is to get up to 50 ozt (this is a decent weight to be posting in one go around the country) and have 5 or 6 bars of 8 to 10 ozt each.

So, if you would like to donate an oz of silver then you can do so one of two ways:

1) Please DM me (Backyard Bullion) and I will give you my PO Box address where you can physically send your silver. 999 fine silver only please and preferably coin form 

Option 1 is only available to UK based members. 

2) Purchase an ozt of silver directly from me to be added to the pot. I will be sourcing silver coins from the forum to add these to the pot, a good guide right now is about £23 per oz.

Option 2 will be best for NON UK members to donate silver - no long shipping or Import tax issues. 

At the end of Sunday 20th March I will know how much Silver we are working with and I can pour some big boy bars for us all to stamp!

STAGE 2 - Hallmarking - 1 Week

We plan to have a big feature laser hallmark applied to these bars. As big as we can get that fits well and shows off the wonders of UK Hallmarking

STAGE 3 - Stamping - 1 to 2 Weeks

After Hallmarking is done we can all add our logos and stamping flavour to the bar(s).

We have 6 pourers confirmed right now, that might increase so getting it posted around the country might take a week or two.

STAGE 4 - Raffle

The exact date of the raffle closing and draw will depend somewhat on the timescales from the above. 

We plan to have tickets cost £5 each with as many entries as you like per person. Entries will be payable to me (Backyard Bullion) with ALL proceeds going to the Red Cross Appeal after the raffle closes. 

Multiple bars means multiple winners so the more silver we can raise in week 1 the better. 

MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW IN DUE COURSE

This is all an evolving project plan but because of the time it will take to get these bars made we wanted to start the ball rolling right now. 

I will be sharing more information about the raffle tickets in due course. 

What YOU need to do right now

If you would like to get involved by donating an ozt of silver (or more that one single oz!) please let us all know by sharing here or DM'ing me for details of how to donate or send silver. 

 

[BackyardBullion]

We have 2 oz's added already!

8 oz total at the moment 

Enough for 1 big boy bar!

[LiquidMetalsUK]

I do like a big boy bar 😀

[SilverAngel]

Well done for doing all the organising for this BYB. 

[arphethean]

Looking forward to this.

Thank you everyone for taking part in this!

I'll chuck this in the crucible

 

[BackyardBullion]

@arphethean AMAZING, thank you so much.

Is that 3x 1oz + 100g? 

[arphethean]

8 minutes ago, BackyardBullion said:

@arphethean AMAZING, thank you so much.

Is that 3x 1oz + 100g? 

3x 2oz + 100g. 

Total is 288g

[BackyardBullion]

Just now, arphethean said:

3x 2oz + 100g. 

Total is 288g

Holy smokes!

Thank you so much!

That brings out total up to 17.25 ozt!

2 Big Boy Bars are happening!

[AndrewSL76]

Put me down for 2.75oz to bring this to 20oz overall. Will sort this out next week. PM to follow.

[Mtaybar]

I'll send 2oz for the melting pot to break the 20oz seal lol. Pm incoming for the address to send to. @BackyardBullion

[Piggybank]

I will also send 2oz for this great cause.

[BackyardBullion]

We are very happy to formally add @GeordieStacker to the list of creators that will make their mark on this bar!

As well as his new addition we have now about 25 ozt worth of silver donated.

That means 3x Bars MINIMUM!

[Thelonerangershorse]

Did this mid week, but seems like a good place to give some others a prod...

 

[SilverHoarder]

Can't donate silver right now but I've sent you £50 to throw into the pot.

All the best!

[BackyardBullion]

39 minutes ago, SilverHoarder said:

Can't donate silver right now but I've sent you £50 to throw into the pot.

All the best!

This brings us up to 27 ozt!

[FFposh]

No physical but I'll send £50 cash to add to the melting pot total too! Please instruct how to donate as and when!👍

Good luck with the bars going forward

 

[FFposh]

23 minutes ago, FFposh said:

No physical but I'll send £50 cash to add to the melting pot total too! Please instruct how to donate as and when!👍

Good luck with the bars going forward

 

@BackyardBullion All done Sir!

[BackyardBullion]

With a 3 oz Donation from @HappyHippo we are  now at 32 ozt 

Thats a KILO of silver donated!

18 more oz's to our 50 oz goal, keep it coming!

[Lr103]

Great idea!  Put me down for a 5oz donation via option 2. 

[BackyardBullion]

5 minutes ago, Lr103 said:

Great idea!  Put me down for a 5oz donation via option 2. 

Amazing, that brings our total to 37 ozt!

[BackyardBullion]

Another ozt added, thats 38 ozt now!

[BackyardBullion]

We are now at 40 ozt

10 more for our 50 ozt target!

[BeastysMoltenMetals]

I'll give an ozt! 

[BackyardBullion]

8 minutes ago, Beasty666 said:

I'll give an ozt! 

41 ozt!

[ryanp007]

Ill go Option 2 with 2oz for the pot. 

Ive not purchased anything from you before so pls PM me your payment details