School gathers celebrity doodles for African school charity fund

DOODLING may be the work of idle hands but it is far from frowned upon in one school which has assembled a collection of very special scrawls, scribbles and sketches.

The minor works of art have been contributed by artists, politicians, sportsmen and other well known people for a celebrity doodle auction to raise funds for an African project close to the students’ hearts.

Close to 60 individual pieces have been collected, including a drawing from Bono, a thought for the day from Bertie Ahern, some lines of poetry from Seamus Heaney and a flower painting from Sophie Dahl.