Perth Voice Interactive

REMIDA’S open day mannequin auction last weekend raised $2000 for cancer charity No Matter What–The Evie Charitable Association.

North Perth couple Alison Elgar and Michelle Rogers started the charity after their daughter Evie died of cancer. The plucky 11-year-old’s motto was “cancer sucks”.

For the auction the pair teamed up with Remida WA, an arts group that collects discarded industrial odds and ends for artists and schools. Every year they divert hundreds of cubic tonnes of industrial discards away from landfill and reusing it as art materials.

Three-hundred turned up on the weekend to Remida’s West Perth HQ, auctioning off the mannequins brightly decorated with discarded gear to kick in $2000 to the charity kitty.