The Financial Times and Quintessentially have launched a luxury online charity auction to help raise money for Room to Read, the charity that was featured in the BIG Kitchen Dinner Raffle on Women's Enterprise day.

Room to Read, launched in Nepal in 2000, works with local communities throughout the developing world to provide quality educational opportunities by constructing schools, establishing libraries, creating children's literature in local languages and providing education with a particular focus on girls.

The FT supports Room to Read through its 2009-2010 seasonal appeal to readers, and Quintessentially, the world’s leading private members’ club with a global concierge service, supports the charity through Quintessentially Foundation, a charitable organisation which helps improve the health, education and welfare of disadvantaged communities worldwide.

The auction runs until midnight on Monday 30^th November and features many items including a rare Signed auction booklet for J.K Rowling’s ‘The Tale of Beedle the Bard’, a personal introduction to Clive Christian’s Perfumes and Tea with Victoria Christian at Fortnum & Mason, a holiday for two at the Half Moon Resort in Jamaica and two Renault F1 Team VIP Technical Centre Visit Packages including two TW Steel watches. In order to bid, people must visit their auction page.

Room to Read is an innovative non-profit leader dedicated to promoting and enabling global education. Founded in 2000, the organisation is based on the belief that education is crucial to breaking the cycle of poverty in the developing world. Since then, the organisation has supported over three million children by providing increased access to higher-quality educational opportunities. Room to Read has established more than 700 schools and over 7,000 bilingual libraries with five million books, and continues to support the education of nearly 7,000 girls. For more information visit their website at www.roomtoread.org