Art raises £14,000 for charity

8:57am Friday 24th August 2007

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THE innovative fund-raising project Little Gems has raised £14,000 towards saving Holehird, the home for disabled people in Ambleside.

Andrew and Sylvia Bramall, who run The Old Courthouse Gallery in Ambleside, launched the initiative in March to boost New Holehird, the charity formed to prevent the home being closed, The couple sent 1,000 CDs along with CD-sized pieces of paper to famous people, artists and local residents asking each of them to produce a piece of art.

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A month later, the walls of the three floors of the Old Courthouse Gallery were covered with the artworks and these have been selling for £50 each in support of the New Holehird project.

The total raised to save the home has now reached £950,000.

The charity's secretary Brenda Robinson, said: "The trustees of New Holehird are very grateful to Mr and Mrs Brammall, and also to the many artists, not forgetting the children from local schools who did their own paintings and drawings for the project."