There are more ways than you might think to use clothing to raise funds:

1.    Design and print a batch of T-shirts that you can expect to sell – fifty, a hundred or more. Wrap them up, labelled according to size, and sell them to raise funds, by offering a T-shirt lottery. In some of the wrapped T-shirts there will be ‘golden tickets’ rewarding the buyer with a prize. If you can get the prizes donated, you’ll be raising lots of money from lots of people and generating awareness of your cause too.

2.    If you’re an environmental organisation, run a competition that rewards the best use of an old item of clothing – you might see smart shirts being turned into bags, or ties into skirts and so on. You may be surprised at what people come up with, and by auctioning the top ten or fifty recycled items for charity, you’ll raise funds too.

3.    Try and get a famous designer to work for you for free. The ‘Fashion Targets Breast Cancer’ range of T-shirts have brought in more than £6.5 million in the past fifteen years. They were designed by Ralph Lauren to commemorate Nina Hyde, the editor of the Washington Post, who died of breast cancer and have been worn Yasmin Le Bon, Jodie Kidd and Elle MacPherson among others.

4.    Set up a fashion show, offering both young designers and potential catwalk models a chance to strut their stuff, for a small fee, and then get the paying audience to vote for the best designs in a range of categories: formal, casual and party for example giving scope for everything from Armani-style suits to ballgowns to hoodies.

5.    Get a famous person to autograph an item of clothing for you – a polo-shirt with a snooker player’s autograph was recently auctioned, raising £7,000 for a small local charity.

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