Puffin awesome!

Amy Johnson’s moths and wanting another giant sculpture to start a collection, Darren said: “It was slightly over the budget, but we’re happy to help raise charity money.

“We’ll keep Amy’s Light at our office in Holderness Road for the time being. She may come home to the garden eventually, but our team and visitors to the business will enjoy her.”

Sue Hickson-Marsay, station manager from Hornsea Inshore Rescue, was delighted to be gifted a puffin by John Hepworth, a benefactor to the life-saving charity. Star Gansey was created by Claire West and sponsored by Wat’s On Fashion and Risby Fishing Ponds. It went for £6,100.

Sue said: “We’re absolutely thrilled. We missed our puffin when it was taken away for the auction, and John promised he’d buy one for us. The crew have just been knitted gansey jumpers, so the story is wonderful too.”

Milly Shaw attended the auction on behalf of her dad, who purchased a puffin for his granddaughter to enjoy. He successfully bid £5,100 over the phone on Nest Builders Well Spotted by artist Kate Eggleston-Wirtz and sponsored by Active Withernsea.

Milly said: “I made the trail with my daughter, who is two and a half, and this puffin was one of the most colourful ones; we both loved it. I’ll create a nice area for us to keep it in the garden.”

At £6,000, Hilary and Alan Chapman were the very happy winning bidders of Swim, Dive, Catch by children at

Bridlington’s New Pasture Lane Primary School and Joy Verda, sponsored by KCOM.

“It will be kept at our place of business, Langhill Holiday Cottages, in Burythorpe,” the said. “We want it to remain pristine so we may keep it inside one of the conservatories. We had four on our list and had lost out on a few, so we thought, right, we’ll dive in and get it, and I’m glad we were successful.”

Travelling from Derbyshire, Lorna Finn was successful bidding for much-loved Headscarf Revolutionary, aka Elsie, created by Susan J. Woolhouse and sponsored by Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime Project. Elsie sold for £7,100.

“My husband is originally from Hull, and his family all worked in the fishing industry,” said Lorna. “We came today, especially for Elsie. She reminds us of the strong women who fought for the fishermen’s rights.

“We’re going to keep her in our house. I had a limit, but we went over by £100 to ensure she would be ours.”

Andrew Baitson was the auctioneer from Gilbert Baitson’s. He said: “I predicted £102,000, but we just needed another puffin to get there. However, £94,000 is a fantastic amount to raise for charity. Beverley Nightlife by artist Katy Cobb was a lovely surprise, selling for the highest amount of £14,200.”