Thanks to the London Games Festival art exhibition, the kindness of others and some really awesome art the SpecialEffect Charity now has over £21,000 more to help anyone with a disability a better quality of life. Everyone should be allowed the chance to play and have fun with video games so it’s great to see charities like SpecialEffect and AbleGamers making that happen no matter what challenges a person might have. There’s still time to bid on the art if you would like some of these great art pieces or just give a few dollars directly to the charities themselves, they could surely use it during this holiday season to brighten someones life.
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London Games Festival art exhibition raises over £21,000 for charity so far as auction enters final stages
The final batch of exhibits are now up for auction at
www.TinyURL.com/c8okfsz or through www.londongamesart.com and include an incredible array of one-off pieces commissioned exclusively for the exhibition. Highlights include the stunning Joker’s Death concept sketch from Batman: Arkham City, a fantastic New Super Mario Bros composite, and a huge signed Football Manager 2013 canvass.
“The response has been overwhelming,” says Kirsty Payne, event director, London Games Festival. “The exhibition attracted a huge amount of interest whilst it was being held – but even we have been astonished by the amount people are pledging for these wonderful and rare pieces of art. We’ve just unveiled the final batch of exhibits to go under the hammer, so there’s just over a week left to win a stunning one-of-a-kind exhibit, make someone’s Christmas even more special – and donate to a wonderful charity.“
All proceeds from the Ukie organised auction will be given in full to SpecialEffect, a unique charity doing whatever it takes to help everyone with disabilities to have a better quality of life through games, art and technology.
Mick Donegan, SpecialEffect CEO, confessed he was genuinely shocked by the success of the auction. “Our huge thanks go to Kirsty Payne and her team at Ukie and every single artist and software house for making this wonderful idea a reality.”
“It has made an amazing and instant impact on our work. Earlier today I saw a blog from a guy with muscular dystrophy we assessed near Liverpool just a couple of days ago: ‘…Just had a meeting with SpecialEffect fantastic charity – will make a huge difference in the quality of my life – need to raise the funds for my controller and some for others less fortunate…’ Well, this much-needed boost to SpecialEffect’s funds not only means we’ll be able to buy that special loan controller for Lee right now but also for the many of the others he talks about too. Just as important, we’ll be able to take on more specialist time to help with our essential assessment and support work, too. For the people that SpecialEffect help, both right now and into the future, there really couldn’t be a more welcome Christmas present!”
The London Games Festival art auction is running through until December 12th. Please visit http://preview.tinyurl.com/c8okfsz or www.londongamesart.com to view and bid on the collection.
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