Welcome to Radio 3’s Operation Santa Claus annual charity auction 2022. With all sorts of amazing lots that you can eat, drink, admire, and experience, by taking part you’ll be having fun while raising money for the 15 charities we are helping assist the needy of Hong Kong via this year’s 35th anniversary Operation Santa Claus campaign. Once again we’re doing it all online, in conjunction with our morning business programme Money Talk. We have some fabulous items for sale, or you can just make a simple donation if you'd rather.

The auction site will be open for bidding from Thursday December 1 2022 8:25am to Friday December 2 2022 8:25am only, but you are welcome to take a look right now at what's available, and register in advance to bid (and to get alerts when someone else places a bid for a higher amount). We'll also be adding further items in the run-up to the launch, so keep looking. The amount raised will be announced on air, but for now please have a look to register or donate.

Click here to visit the Radio 3 Operation Santa Claus annual charity auction page for all the information you will need.

Happy bidding... and thank you.

Every weekday morning, for the duration of the World Cup Qatar 2022, join our sports reporter Atom Cheung at 9.25 (the final few minutes of Backchat) for his latest report, score card, comments on the previous day's play, and his look ahead to what's upcoming. 

Operation Santa Claus 2022 is underway, celebrating 35 years of putting smiles on people's faces. Since 1988, through this yearly campaign, the people and businesses of Hong Kong have raised 353 million dollars to support 323 charitable projects. There’s much work to be done, and we plan on celebrating many more birthdays to come. Once again, RTHK and The South China Morning Post are spearheading a community effort to spread lots of cheer to the underprivileged of Hong Kong, by funding 15 wonderful, imaginative, charitable projects, in the areas of children and young people, the community, the environment, people with physical and mental disabilities, and medical treatment. This year’s theme is ‘Sports and All’. We wanted to stress togetherness, activity, team spirit, celebrating Hong Kong’s successes, encouragement, and mentoring those who want and need it. So, one word immediately jumped off the page of our notebook. It was, 'sports’. Operation Santa Claus is, and always has been, about inclusivity, so, ‘All'... was the only choice.
Find out how you can contribute by organising your own fundraising activities, or by simply giving any amount you can, via our website

Welcome to Wednesday's Brunch with Noreen. After 10, Cruz Macalligan is with us for our mid-week audio column. This week she'll talk about water pumpkins. After 11, we're talking about prenatal genetic testing with Dr. Chan Chi Wai, a specialist in reproductive medicine. Do get in touch with your song requests and comments on Facebook.  

It's Wednesday on The Brew, and St. Andrew’s Day, but more about that shortly. After 12, Chris Watts will be waiting for you at his Motion Dynamics studio, and he’s going to give your force couple relationship a jolly good seeing to. Join him on Facebook live as well, with any questions you may have. RTL France's Philippe Dova is busy working in Tokyo today, so he'll be back with you next week. Now… back to St. Andrew. He’s widely known as the patron saint of Scotland, but add Ukraine, Georgia, and Romania to that list as well. It's 'classical' music day, and at 1.30 trumpet virtuoso Paul Archibald will be back, live from Bangkok, to feature some wonderful pieces by composers from these four countries that remember Andrew the Apostle.
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