Harry Styles has donated a whoppin’ $52K to the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, administered by the US National Women’s Law Centre, the so-called next step in the #MeToo movement, whose goal is to help pay legal and PR costs in select sexual harassment cases.
[jwplayer MrIYS6zy]
The Daily Mail uncovered the records showing the exact amounted donated to the Fund by Styles in late August, a month after his tour finished up.
As we already knew, over the course of his world tour, which ran from September 2017 until early July this year, Styles raised a total of $1.2 million for charities and non-profits. He collected that money in what he called the ‘Treat People with Kindness‘ campaign, through both ticket sales and the sale of ‘TPWK’ hair ties, selecting a worthy cause at each stop along the tour. He also partnered with Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network for Pride, releasing a pair of custom ‘TPWK’ shirts to raise money for the organisation.
The Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund was chosen for the LA leg of his tour, receiving a total of $52,692 (USD$42,631), making Styles one of only nine men to have donated more than USD$40,000 to the cause. Others include Stephen Spielberg, Mark Wahlberg, JJ Abrams, Seth Meyers and John Legend.
Styles also donated to the likes of the UK‘s The Manchester Fund, March for Our Lives in Washington DC, and The Hunger Project in Stockholm. Here’s the full list of charities Styles donated to.
That’s not the only lovely thing Styles did on tour. He invited HeadCount along to help register more young people to vote in the US elections. He also advocated against the use of single-use plastics, environmental group Reverb writing that custom reusable bottles and refilling stations at his gigs led to more than 13,000 “saved” single-use plastic water bottles, even as he recycled more than 6,500 gallons of water from buses, offices, dressing rooms and other backstage areas.
The amazing @Harry_Styles has invited HeadCount to register voters on his tour! Sign up to volunteer and catch a show here: https://t.co/urWDXQSMwM pic.twitter.com/VWUHIhbjji
— HeadCount | Register To Vote (@HeadCountOrg) June 18, 2018
The Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund have a GoFundMe which has raised USD$22 million of its USD$22.5 million goal. You can support them too HERE.
