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Celebrity doodles raise £12,000 in online auction
Howard Lake | 15 March 2006 | News
An online auction of celebrity doodles has raised £12,412 for Epilepsy Action and The Neurofibromatosis Association.
A total of 277 doodles, drawn in aid of National Doodle Day on March 3, were sold after 10 days of bidding on eBay. The top seller was former world and Olympic figure skating champion Robin Cousins, whose doodle of a pair of ice skates went for £908.
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A separate competition is still running for schools, giving pupils and teachers the chance to win an interactive white board for their school. Businesses, brownie packs and sports clubs are also being encouraged to hold their own National Doodle Day competitions.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.