Transcript Maria Chenoweth-Casey's Presentation

Maria Chenoweth-Casey
Chief Executive, TRAID
Registered Charity Number 297489
TRAID’s Charitable Objectives
• To protect the environment through the
recycling of clothes
• To educate the public on issues of poverty and
the environment
• To relieve poverty anywhere in the world
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72 full time paid staff
15 site finders
1,550 textile recycling banks in the UK
Textile collection logistics
Warehouse handling 210 tons of clothing a
month
10 shops open 7 days per week
10,000 garments on sale to the public weekly
An education department
TRAIDremade workshop
Funding international development projects
Three areas of competition:-
• Organisations that operate textile recycling
banks
• Anyone wanting second-hand clothing for
resale
• Retailers that want shop sites with high footfall
in prime locations
Achievements to date are:• Raising over £30 million pounds for our charitable
objectives
• Diverting over 35,000 tonnes of textiles from the
waste stream saving 490,000 tonnes of CO2e
• Education outreach of over 100,000 children, young
people and adults since 2005
• Funding 34 international development projects
positively impacting on over 700,000 people living in
some of the world’s poorest communities