# Recycling slimmers’ clothes sees Slimming World raise over £1mn for cancer charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2022/09/05/recycling-slimmers-clothes-sees-slimming-world-raise-over-1mn-for-cancer-charities/
- Published: 2022-09-05T08:19:43+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Slimming World consultants and members have raised more than £1.2 million for 
Cancer Research UK and the Irish Cancer Society through its ‘The Big Slimming World
Clothes Throw’.**

In total, £1,218,808.00 was raised in the UK for [Cancer Research UK](https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/),
and €81,000 for the [Irish Cancer Society](https://www.cancer.ie/) in the Republic
of Ireland.

Back for the first time in three years – the last one [taking place in 2019](https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/06/19/slimming-worlds-golden-clothes-throw-raises-3-6million-in-two-weeks/)–
the previously annual fundraiser took place over a two-week period in May 2022 and
saw Slimming World Consultants, who run the organisation’s 7,700 community groups
across the UK and Ireland, and members donate clothes to the charities’ stores.

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As well as taking part in the activity, five members who found a golden donation
bag recently headed to London to enjoy a money-can’t-buy prize as a thank you for
helping to raise money for Slimming World’s charitable partners. Each one was treated
to an overnight stay in the capital, a personal styling appointment with a top stylist
and a shopping voucher to help them to replace the clothes they slimmed out of.

Slimming World’s Deputy Marketing Manager Clare Lee, who organises the national 
fundraising campaign, said:

> “It has been absolutely fantastic to be able to bring back The Big Slimming World
> Clothes Throw this year and we are so very proud of all of our Consultants and
> members who went out of their way to help support Cancer Research UK and the Irish
> Cancer Society.
>  
> “We have been working in partnership with Cancer Research UK and the Irish Cancer
> Society for nine years now and cancer is a cause close to many of our colleagues’
> and members’ hearts. Through our work with the charity, as well as fundraising,
> we hope to raise awareness that maintaining a healthy weight improves health, 
> including the risk of developing some types of cancer.”

Eve Mitchell, Head of Partnerships Management at Cancer Research UK added:

> “Raising over £1.2million worth of clothes is a fantastic achievement and we thank
> everyone who cleared out their wardrobes and generously donated clothes. The money
> raised through The Big Slimming World Clothes Throw will help us continue our 
> pioneering research to beat cancer.”

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