{"id":73199,"date":"2025-10-12T04:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T04:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/73199\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T04:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T04:31:14","slug":"loros-elephant-sculptures-sell-for-286000-at-auction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/73199\/","title":{"rendered":"LOROS elephant sculptures sell for \u00a3286,000 at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"

A herd of elephant sculptures have raked in more than \u00a3286,000 at a charity auction.<\/p>\n

After spending the summer in Leicester city centre as part of LOROS Hospice’s Stomp Round Leicester art trail, 40 elephant sculptures were sold at the King Power Stadium on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The trail came to an end on 28 September after logging about 490,000 visits since mid-July.<\/p>\n

The highest winning bids included \u00a314,000 for Ellie, a lifelike representation of a young African elephant by artist Amy Bourbon, and \u00a312,000 for XL, which was designed by international artist Alex Echo.<\/p>\n

Remember Me, an elephant sculpture displaying the names of loved ones<\/a> who passed away, was gifted to the hospice by people whose bids totalled \u00a329,000.<\/p>\n

LOROS hoped the trail and auction sale would boost the coffers of the hospice in the face of “real financial challenges”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Following the auction, Camilla Barrow, acting CEO at LOROS, said: “We are absolutely blown away by the total raised – it’s a staggering amount and that’s all thanks to the incredible generosity of these supporters. <\/p>\n

“I’d like to thank them all so much.”<\/p>\n

Ms Barrow said the trail had helped “shine a light” on hospice care at a time “when we need it most”.<\/p>\n

“This magnificent total is a step towards securing our future, but we still have a mammoth hill to climb,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A herd of elephant sculptures have raked in more than \u00a3286,000 at a charity auction. After spending the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-73199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}