Glasgow optical retailer MIKA & Me is launching a new scheme to turn tired old glasses into \u2018good as new\u2019 eyewear to raise funds for Beatson Cancer Charity.<\/p>\n
Barry Hutcheon, who set up MIKA & Me with his sister Wendy Bremner, is urging people with old specs lying about their house to drop them off at his Park Road store in the West End.<\/p>\n
MIKA & Me are specialists in digitally fitting the latest technology Japanese aspheric lenses to \u2018vintage\u2019 and designer frames.<\/p>\n
Their staff will revamp the eyewear as well as fit new super thin lenses for the glasses\u2019 new owner\u2019s latest prescription. Barry, whose store stocks all the latest top fashion brands from Christian Dior to Gucci and Calvin Klein, will then sell the recycled specs at an \u2018exceptional price\u2019 of \u00a370 from a special \u2018Beatson Collection\u2019 display in the shop.<\/p>\n
All proceeds will then be donated to Beatson Cancer Charity which provides expert wellbeing services, therapies and care to cancer patients and their families across Glasgow and the west of Scotland.<\/p>\n
MIKA & Me officially launched the Beatson Collection at a \u201870s night\u2019 on Thursday (8th<\/sup> December), where everything in the shop was \u00a370 and customers including Beatson Cancer Charity ambassadors came along, bringing their own old spectacles to be revamped and sold on for the charity.<\/p>\n Barry said: \u201cMy dad\u2019s a retired oncologist so we know the amazing work that Beatson Cancer Charity does. We want to help them, but also do our bit for the circular economy and the environment. We think this is a unique way to recycle something which is currently redundant, and raise money for Beatson Cancer Charity.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the UK, it\u2019s estimated that as many as 300 million frames have been put away in people\u2019s homes serving no purpose.\u00a0We recycle clothes, so why not vintage glasses? MIKA & Me can turn these frames into cash and help Beatson Cancer Charity which does so much fantastic work for families across the city and Scotland.<\/p>\n \u201cSo if you\u2019ve got vintage glasses stuck in drawers at home, please consider donating them to MIKA & Me and Beatson Cancer Charity. It\u2019s a fantastic way to put old pairs of glasses back into use.\u201d<\/p>\n Joyce Ross, corporate partnerships manager at Beatson Cancer Charity, said: \u201cWe are delighted to have the support from MIKA & Me, who have launched a \u2018Beatson Collection\u2019 to raise money for our charity.<\/p>\n Donations like this allow us to work on developing new services to enhance the care and support patients and their families receive during their cancer journey.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are grateful to everyone who supports this initiative by MIKA & Me and would encourage anyone with old glasses lying around the house to get involved.\u201d<\/p>\n To donate your old spectacles, please come along to MIKA & Me at 56 Park Road, Kelvinbridge,\u00a0Glasgow\u00a0West End G4 9JF. Opening times are Monday to Saturday 9.30 -5.30 10am to 6pm, Sunday 11am to 4pm. To contact them or make an appointment to go in, got to https:\/\/www.mikaandme.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Glasgow optical retailer MIKA & Me is launching a new scheme to turn tired old glasses into \u2018good as new\u2019 eyewear to raise funds for Beatson Cancer Charity. Barry Hutcheon, who set up MIKA & Me with his sister Wendy Bremner, is urging people with old specs lying about their house to drop them off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[77,78,11,43],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morrison-media.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morrison-media.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morrison-media.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morrison-media.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morrison-media.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morrison-media.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morrison-media.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morrison-media.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morrison-media.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morrison-media.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}