# Primark raises £2.4 million for Make-A-Wish® UK over five years

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/12/18/primark-raises-2-4m-make-wish-uk-five-years/
- Published: 2018-12-18T09:51:49+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Primark has raised £619,720 this year from the sale of Christmas jumpers in aid
of Make-A-Wish UK, taking its total over five years to £2,466,633.**

Jason Suckley, CEO, [Make-A-Wish UK](http://make-a-wish.org.uk), and Caroline Gullick,
Director of Buying, Primark Stores Ltd, marked the total by wearing some of the 
jumpers that have been on sale in Primark stores.

Since 2014 Primark Ltd and its customers have been fundraising for Make-A-Wish UK.
The total sum raised has enabled the charity to grant wishes to more than 820 children
with critical illnesses. Indeed, it has directly supported more than 30 children’s
wishes by playing host to shopping wishes, and donating clothes and accessories 
to enhance wishes.

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## 12,000 wishes granted

In 32 years, more than 12,000 wishes have been granted in the UK, and more children
than ever before are asking Make-A-Wish UK to grant their One True Wish. Children
like six-year-old Alyssa, who wishes to drink hot chocolate with Santa, or thirteen-
year-old Hope, who wishes to see the Christmas lights in London. In 2018, Make-A-
Wish aims to grant 1,000 children’s wishes.

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