# Clothing company to donate 20% of sales from its eBay store

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/04/16/clothing-company-donate-20-sales-its-ebay-store/
- Published: 2012-04-16T17:57:51+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Online discount clothes retailer MandMDirect has become the first major eBay retailer
to use eBay for Charity to raise funds for a charity on an on-going basis.

MandMDirect will donate 20% of sales on eBay from its Onfire clothing range to Teenage
Cancer Trust. It hopes that this new method of fundraising will help it reach its
£1 million target for the charity.

, is also Patron of Teenage Cancer Trust. He said: “During the past seven years 
we’ve managed to raise over £860,000 for the charity through employee fundraising
events and product donations, and we’re now looking to hit the £1 million target
with this latest partnership”.

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Lorin May, eBay Head of EU Charity and Sustainability, explained: “eBay for Charity
enables our 17 million UK visitors to support good causes when they buy and sell
on the site and thanks to the generosity of our users over £33 million has already
been raised for 6,000 UK charities. MandMDirect, however, is the first major retailer
to donate a percentage of their eBay sales directly to a charity on an on-going 
basis.”

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