# Celebrities push the envelope for National Literacy Trust

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/09/07/celebrities-push-envelope-national-literacy-trust/
- Published: 2005-09-07T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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Some of Britain’s top actors, writers, illustrators, musicians, sportspeople and
personalities have been using their creativity to design envelopes for the 2005 
Pitney Bowes ‘Pushing the Envelope’ online charity auction.

The designed envelopes will be auctioned on eBay.co.uk starting on 3 October 2005
and running for 10 days.

Mail and document management systems company Pitney Bowes expects that more than
50 designs will be available for bidding.

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Contributors to ‘Pushing the Envelope’ so far include actor Ian McKellen, author
Tracy Chevalier, fashion designer Julien Macdonald, singer Shirley Bassey, illustrator
and author Raymond Briggs, and comedian and actor Stephen Fry.

Last year’s inaugural online auction raised just over £5,500.

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