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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On Wed 5 October, Clothes Aid featured on the BBC’s The One Show in a story by Lucy Siegle, consumer expert, about recent raids in Rainham where four men were arrested in connection with illegitimate clothing collections (8 Sept 2011).
The story looked at problems surrounding charity clothing collection crime and also highlighted legitimate schemes, such as Clothes Aid’s, in association with the NSPCC and Battersea Dogs & Cats Home.
Louise Richards, Director of Policy and Campaigns at the Institute of Fundraising (IoF), was interviewed as was Paul Amadi, Director of Fundraising for the NSPCC.
“Clothing bag theft is a massive problem for NSPCC, a growing one and one that we are absolutely desperate to stop. We estimate that last year we lost over £130,000 to this unscrupulous crime,” said Paul Amadi.
“It’s really important, particularly now in these economic times, because every penny counts for charities; so it’s really important people don’t get put off by this, that they are aware of the problems that can happen but they keep on giving,” said Louise Richards.
The programme highlighted that the public should always: check to make sure the bag displays the organisation’s registered charity number and look for the ‘Give with Confidence’ logo.
From Clothes Aid’s point of view, we felt that the story was a rounded look at the issues and we want to reinforce the message that to keep giving is vital for charities’ funds.
“We give over £1.4 million every year to our selected UK charities,” says Michael Lomotey, spokesperson for Clothes Aid. “This is money that the charities wouldn’t otherwise have and stealing from charities is obviously wrong. We will keep working with the City of London Police to help stop this type of crime.”
The story can be viewed on BBC I-Player at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b015tym4/The_One_Show_05_10_2011/#
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