maria chenoweth-casey chief executive, traid registered charity number 297489

Maria Chenoweth-CaseyChief 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

• 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