Lyric books donated by The National's Matt Berninger sell for £40,000 at Tiny Changes auction

02 July 2024, 09:55 | Written by Tyler Damara Kelly

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Last month, Scottish Children and Young People’s mental health charity Tiny Changes announced their second annual ‘Make Tiny Changes Month’.

Their aim was to beat last year’s huge fundraising total of over £40,000 by taking on personal and team challenges throughout the month of fundraising. Prizes include two never-before-seen personal lyric books from The National’s Matt Berninger, covering the Cherry Tree EP and Alligator LP, plus a signed guitar from IDLES, an Arab Strap original painting, a signed test-pressing of Los Campesinos!’ new album All Hell, Frank Turner signed lyrics and many more.

With Berninger's lyric book selling for £40,000 on its own, they've smashed their target.

Thank you everyone who got involved in Make Tiny Changes month - we’ll be sharing more about it very soon 😊

For now, we wanted to share some incredible news via @TheNational, that some of you might have already noticed from last night... pic.twitter.com/crQyJ178Ai
— Tiny Changes (@tinychanges) July 1, 2024

Handwritten lyrics sold by Frank Turner sold for £502, whilst a framed portrait of Frightened Rabbits' Scott Hutchison sold for £350. An original watercolour painting of Arab Strap, pained live by Jenny Soep during their set on the Tiny Changes stage at Connect Festival 2023, which was signed by the bad and paired with a vinyl edition of their latest album, went for £366.

The total amount made during the auction was £42,425.31.

For more information, visit 32auctions.com.