MandMDirect launch eBay charity drive

MandMDirect, one of the largest online discount clothes retailers

in Europe, is aiming to raise £1m for the Teenage Cancer Trust through its eBay store. The retailer has entered into an innovative partnership with eBay, to become the first major retailer to donate a percentage of their eBay sales to helping raise funds to provide specialist facilities for young people with cancer across the country.

Through the initiative, the retailer will be donating 20 per cent of sales from selected Onfire branded items listed in its eBay store directly to the charity, in the hopes at raising £1m.

“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 £33m 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.  We’re thrilled to be working with them on this ground-breaking partnership to raise funds for Teenage Cancer Trust,” commented Lorin May, eBay Head of EU Charity and Sustainability.

Mike Tomkins, Chairman of MandMDirect and Patron of Teenage Cancer Trust, added: “Teenage Cancer Trust does exceptional and invaluable work and we extremely proud to be supporting them again. During the past seven years we’re managed to raise over £860,000 for the charity through employee fundraising events and product donations, and we’re now looking to hit the one million pound target with this latest partnership.”