Archive for the ‘Charity’ Category

Make-A-Wish Foundation® UK

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Make-A-Wish has granted the wishes of thousands of sick children in the UK. They believe that everyone deserves the right to make their dreams come true, and with the help of their truly incredible volunteers Make-A-Wish have granted the wishes of thousands of sick children.

In order to continue granting wishes, Make-A-Wish desperately requires the support of those who believe in the work that they do. Here at Tights Please we have been touched and inspired by Make-A-Wish; the way they have turned around the lives of many children and young people is astounding.

In order to support this incredible charity TightsPlease have dedicated an entire page of some this season’s most exciting tights to Make-A-Wish. 10% of the price you pay for the products on this dedicated page goes to Make-A-Wish. Visit our Make-A-Wish pages now and support a fantastic charity while purchasing your Autumn Winter tights!

Charity Initiative

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Here at tights please, we were utterly amazed with the amount of tights everyone sent in. We sent thousands of tights over to Ethiopia by air freight where they will be appreciated by women suffering from fistula injuries.
The only problem faced was that because we received over 10,000 pairs it was more than the hospital could cope with. This is where tights please customers opinions are highly welcomed.
Do you have any ideas of ways that these second hand tights can be used to raise money?
Perhaps you may know someone that could take on the challenge for comic relief of the most tights worn at once? A primary school wanting to make puppets, or people using them as scented fresheners by filling stockings with potpourri!
Suggestions including fashion are also welcomed, perhaps you know a aspiring designer who would like to take up the interesting and intriguing challenge of creating a bespoke outfit?
This could then be auctioned to raise money for the fistula hospital in Ethiopia.
I look forward to hearing your suggestions.
Best Wishes,
The Tights please team x

Tights for charity

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Thank you to everyone who produced an avalanche of tights here at Tights Please HQ!

A couple of months ago we launched our charity appeal to send in second hand tights for a hospital in Ethiopia. The hospital needs tights to hold dressings in place for women who suffer a fistula injury after childbirth (see http://www.fistulafoundation.org/ for more details).

Well we have been overwhelmed with thousands upon thousands of pairs! The pictures only show one portion of the tights we received and, as our postman knows, they are still arriving thick and fast.

The appeal has now closed as we find out if the hospital needs more. However don’t despair, we have been so overwhelmed with the response we are thinking of other ways to put second hand tights to good use. Please leave comments below with any suggestions … or just to have a guess at how many tights were sent. We will be revealing the answer in a few weeks!

Thank you once again and we look forward to your suggestions and guesses!

Best Wishes

The Tightsplease Team

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