# Slimming World aims for £2 million with Big Clothes Throw 2016

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/06/02/slimming-world-aims-2m-big-clothes-throw-2016/
- Published: 2016-06-02T08:55:14+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Slimming World has held its annual Big Slimming World Clothes Throw, which raises
money for [Cancer Research UK](http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/) through slimmers
donating their old clothes.**

 

The campaign sees Slimming World’s 800,000 group members donate the clothes, shoes
and accessories they have successfully slimmed out of to local Cancer Research UK
shops across the UK. It takes place for two weeks in May each year, across Slimming
World’s 13,000 groups and is open to all 800,000 members, as well as the wider community.

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Each bag is worth £25 to the charity: more with the addition of Gift Aid. Official
figures are still to come for this year, but 2015’s Big Clothes Throw raised £1.7m
for Cancer Research UK, and this year it aims to raise £2m. Since the campaign launched
in 2013, it has raised £3.8 million for the charity.

 

In 2015, the most successful areas in 2015 were the groups in the Wiltshire/East
Dorset district, who raised £102,662.38 with 3876 bags, and the South West Wales
groups, who raised £115,944.30 with 3759 bags. At the organisation’s head office
in Alfreton, 300 staff collected 485 bags, raising an estimated £12,500.

 

The partnership between Slimming World and Cancer Research UK came about after after
Slimming World members and consultants voted for Cancer Research UK to benefit from
their fundraising activities through Slimming World’s charitable foundation [SMILES](http://www.slimmingworld.co.uk/information/smiles.aspx)(
Slimmers Making It a Little Easier for Someone).

 

The partnership aims to raise awareness of the links between cancer and obesity,
as well as raise funds, with the key message that keeping a healthy weight could
reduce the risk of developing ten different types of cancer. Overall since they 
started working together in January 2013, Slimming World has raised more than £4.4
million for the charity.

 

Slimming World has a number of other fundraising campaigns in its calendar. Slimming
World does Race for Life encourages Slimming World groups to hold their own activity-
based event. The campaign has run for three years and will be repeated in July this
year. So far Slimming World does Race for Life events have raised more than £555,000
towards the fundraising total. In January 2014, Slimming World also launched a charity
donation box, encouraging members to donate the 5p change from their weekly group
fees. This activity has raised £109,000.

 

Picture: Slimming World Medway team.

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