The Friends group has set up a donation page on its website to help raise money, but Mr Hodgsonsaid even before that was done, cheques had started coming in.
"We showed for large parts of the game we were more than capable of matching them, but they have quality, " former Inter Milan and Udinese boss Hodgsonsaid.
Visual arts festival organiser Aaron Hodgsonsaid material that could be deemed inappropriate was normally flagged up and checked but on this occasion the inappropriate material was missed.