# Celebrities 'push the envelope' for National Literacy Trust

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/09/25/celebrities-039push-envelope039-national-literacy-trust/
- Published: 2008-09-25T15:47:10+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Some of Britain’s top actors, writers, illustrators, actors, and sportspeople have
designed envelopes which will be auctioned off to raise funds for the National Literacy
Trust (NLT).

 [⌊Pitney Bowes Pushing The Envelope - by Ben Kingsley⌉](http://www.flickr.com/photos/howardlake/2887900348)

Now in its fifth year, the ‘Pitney Bowes Pushing the Envelope’ charity auction has
attracted contributions including a risque sketch of truncheon-wielding policemen
drawn by ‘Vera Drake’ director Mike Leigh OBE, and designs by flamboyant artist 
Grayson Perry and ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ author Tracey Chevalier.

Will Wright, creator of SimCity and the much debated ‘Spore’ game which was released
this week, has contributed a characteristic schematic circuitry design.

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 [⌊Pitney Bowes Pushing The Envelope - by Helen Craig⌉](http://www.flickr.com/photos/howardlake/2887901504)
[⌊Pitney Bowes Pushing The Envelope - by Michael Heath⌉](http://www.flickr.com/photos/howardlake/2887902000)

The designed envelopes will be auctioned on eBay.co.uk in a 10-day auction starting
on 7 October 2008. In the UK, all funds raised will be donated to the National Literacy
Trust.

www.pitneybowes.pushingtheenvelope.info

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- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/09/25/celebrities-039push-envelope039-national-literacy-trust/#comment-3281
- Published: 2008-10-28T16:19:21+00:00

The auction raised £13,000 for the National Literacy Trust.

Top seller this year was Welsh artist John Knapp-Fisher, whose brooding study of
a mountain-side cottage netted £3,300. Close behind was Turner Prize winning artist,
Grayson Perry’s colourful motorbike design which sold for £2,600.