Clothes Aid are encouraging householders across Scotland to give away their unwanted clothes or shoes in order to help children in danger or distress. Collection bags will be delivered to householders across the country in order to raise funds for the NSPCC’s ChildLine service in Scotland.
NSPCC Scotland fundraising manager
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Clothes Aid, the UK’s largest commercial clothing collector on behalf of charities, is looking to partner schools across London and Scotland to raise funds as it launches its schools campaign to collect the nation’s unwanted clothes, starting this month.
Clothes Aid is offering schools the choice between raising funds for
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Press statement
Wednesday 15 February 2012
Make-A-Wish urges the public to avoid the rising ‘cash for clothes’ market
In response to the report yesterday morning on BBC Breakfast detailing how more and more people are choosing to sell bags of unwanted clothes instead of donating them to charity,
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January 2012: A huge thank you goes to the Iglesia Ni Cristo congregations at Battersea Arts Centre, London, and Granfers Community Centre, Sutton, Surrey, on Sunday 29th January for collecting over 200 bags of clothes which will go as a donation to the NSPCC.
An INC GIVING representative said: "It was a real buzz of
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Clothes Aid would like to report that a three-year custodial sentence has been handed out for charity bag theft in the case of Arnas Gasuinas, who was sentenced on four counts of handling stolen goods at Basildon Crown Court, Essex, on 23 December 2011.
The original arrests were made in Rainham, Essex, in October 2010 where
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A bogus charity claiming to be collecting for Breakthrough Breast Cancer was caught by BBC South East after Clothes Aid helped discover the gang stealing in Kent.
The leaflets used by the bogus collectors show the breast cancer pink ribbon logo and claim to be collecting on behalf of Breakthrough.
Clothes Aid assisted BBC Home Affairs correspondant Colin Campbell with intelligence to help catch the bogus collectors red-handed taking donations intended for the NSPCC and other genuine charities.
Michael Lomotey, Business Manager at Clothes Aid, said: "Our fears are that fraudsters are depriving genuine charities across the UK of up to £14m a year."
Clothes Aid believe that bogus charities use these fraudulant leaflets as an excuse to be on the streets so they can steal genuine charity bags.
"But thanks to our hard work with the BBC South East team we've managed to ensure one less bogus is stealing on our streets."
Published 19th August
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