Lisa Hughes has worn fancy dress every day for 310 days and raised £5,000 for charity
Lisa Hughes, from Bolton, has worn a different fancy dress costume every day for 310 days to raise money for three local charities, and has collected more than £5,000.
How it was covered
- Channel 5 was the only channel found covering it, concentrating on the year-long fancy-dress challenge and the local charities it supports.
- BBC News, BBC One, BBC Two, Channel 4, GB News, ITV and Sky News: not found in tracked broadcasts.
The Full Story
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Lisa Hughes, from Bolton, has worn a different fancy dress costume every day for 310 days to raise money for three local charities, Channel 5 reported. Her costumes have included Marge Simpson, Mary Poppins and Cruella de Vil. Channel 5's Catherine Jones met her in Bolton.
Channel 5 reported that Lisa chooses her outfit each morning after checking the weather and going through the boxes of costumes at her home. One of the charities she is supporting is the Bolton Destitute Animal Shelter, an animal rescue centre in her hometown, and the other two are a bereavement charity and a charity supporting people with HIV.
By day 310, she had raised more than £5,000 and hoped to double that total by New Year's Eve, which would take it past £10,000. Channel 5 reported that she carries a donation bucket with her, and that people often tell her the costumes have made their day.
A representative of the animal shelter told Channel 5 that the challenge was getting its name out and that the money raised was wonderful. Lisa also asked social media followers for ideas for her final costume. Suggestions included dressing as Big Ben and chiming at midnight, or as a firework going off at midnight.
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| Lisa Hughes aimed to spend a full year in fancy dress to raise money for charity. | |
| She had raised more than £5,000 and hoped to double that amount by New Year's Eve. | |
| The fancy-dress fundraising challenge reached day 310. | |
Channel Perspectives
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This was a light-hearted 'hero of the week' segment. It concentrated on Lisa Hughes's daily costume routine, the three charities she is supporting and the boost her outfits give to people. The tone was warm and celebratory, closing with the offer of a 5 News Heroes mug.
- “I am Venetian royalty today. This is day 310.”
- “I always carry a donation bucket round with me so they pop a few pence in or a couple of pound or whatever.”
- “We're not in a great world at the moment with everything that's going on and it just brightens people up”
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