{"id":63330,"date":"2026-06-06T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63330"},"modified":"2026-06-05T19:47:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:47:02","slug":"metro-lost-property-to-go-on-sale-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63330","title":{"rendered":"Metro lost property to go on sale for charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lost property found on the Tyne and Wear Metro over the past couple of years is to be sold, with the proceeds going to a local charity. The sale will take place at Tynemouth Market \u2013 which takes place in Tynemouth Metro station \u2013 on Sunday 7<sup>th<\/sup> June between 0900 and 1500.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of items will be on sale. This includes brand-new clothing with tags on, sports items from basketballs and badminton racquets to boxing gloves and cycling helmets, jewellery, umbrellas, walking sticks, sunglasses and many more items.<\/p>\n<p>All proceeds from the day will be donated to Nexus\u2019 chosen charity of the year, North East Dementia Care. Transport is their main funding priority, and they are currently aiming to raise \u00a335,000 for a new minibus.<\/p>\n<p>Lynne Robinson, Public Affairs Manager at Nexus, said: &#8220;We\u2019ve had a lot of money raised in previous years with our lost property auctions and sales. We have a weird and wonderful mix of items to sell, and we usually get lots of interest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great to think that the unclaimed lost property can be put to such good use, and the funds raised will be welcomed by North East Dementia Care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The stall at the market will be cash only and any unsold items will be recycled or donated to charity.<\/p>\n<p>Lost property found on Metro trains, interchanges and stations is held by Nexus for 28 days before being discarded, recycled or sold, depending on the item and its condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lost property found on the Tyne and Wear Metro over the past couple of years is to be sold, with the proceeds going to a local charity. The sale will take place at Tynemouth Market \u2013 which takes place in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63330\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63331,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63330\/revisions\/63331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}