Can you help save a Dalek?

Although this might sound like a new Doctor Who adventure, I'm afraid it's all too real. My Dalek work needs saving!

My name is Julian, and I've always been a great fan of Doctor Who, and especially Daleks. Over the decades I've actually made a great many of them, and they have even appeared on TV. In fact if you are a Doctor Who fan, and you have a collection of merchandise then you probably have some of my work in your collection, without knowing it.

For example the 2003 Radio Times covers, some issues of Doctor Who Magazine, posters, articles, documentaries, my work is in there somewhere. I even had one of my silver Daleks appear in a Kit Kat advert! I have basically spent my life making things, many of which are related to Doctor Who. But these objects, both full size and model, take up space- ask anyone who owns a Dalek. Things have to be stored somewhere, and unfortunately all of my things can only be kept in storage where I had hoped they'd be safe. But storage is expensive and if you get behind with payments the things in them stop being protected, and start being taken.

I now find myself in a position where, literally, my life's work is about to be taken due to my getting behind with the storage fees. These fees have gone up and up, to the point where you just can't keep up with the price increases each month. Suddenly the things being protected are at risk of no longer being yours. That is now happening, and I'm powerless to stop it.

I literally have decades of my things, trapped in there, waiting to be rescued, but looking very likely that they are about to be taken away from me forever. Frankly it's overwhelming. I've tried to carry on getting the fees together to get up to date, but its not happened. It's embarrassing, it's humiliating, and it's frustrating, but worst of all its devastating to think that total strangers will be going through your personal, private things looking to sell them to get their money back. And that's all they care about, not what it's done to you to have your life's work taken, and your personal family property examined to see if its of any value. Personal things are beyond price.

Last year, I had hoped to get some of my Doctor Who and Dalek work out of storage, and put on display in a museum, where they could be enjoyed again by the public. However, the museum proved to be very disinterested in putting them on show, and after a lot of effort to make it happen, I never heard from the place again. I knew that the public love to see Daleks, and if that museum had realised it, they would have benefitted from the increased visitors, but it came to nothing. I'm sure there must be a museum or some such organisation out there who would love to put some of my things on display, but how to find them? If I'd got the museum display going some of my Daleks would not now be trapped in this storage awaiting a devastating outcome.

It was suggested by a fellow Dalek fan that I should try this avenue to urgently try and head off what is about to happen, but unfortunately I think there just isn't the time to prevent it now. I really don't know, so I'm hoping it isn't too late, and that my life's work and Daleks, and sets, and models can be rescued.

Unfortunately, this is not a Doctor Who adventure, but real life, and real life doesn't always have a conclusion that saves you from the thing you are fighting against. I can only hope enough people feel my life's work is worth saving from people who couldn't care less about what they are about to do to it, and consequently me.

So, maybe, just maybe you could help in this real life situation, and be the saver of a Dalek? I realise Daleks are the 'baddies', but in this case it would be worth your efforts to help them fight another day! And as the person who made these and many other things over a lifetime, I would be grateful in having my things be saved so that they could continue to give pleasure to the many fans of Doctor Who, and those naughty monsters that we love so much. Thank you for anything that you can contribute.