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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Scotland’s Longest Clothesline transformed Edinburgh’s Inverleith Park yesterday thanks to the Scottish public donating over 2,000 items of unwanted clothing to hang on the line for charity.
The one kilometre clothesline – a first for Scotland, was organised by Clothes Aid to raise funds for CHAS. All the donated items from the clothesline will be sold through the CHAS shops and overseas to raise money for CHAS.
Edinburgh Central MSP Marco Biagi turned up to show his support along with two brothers who regularly use Rachel House Children’s Hospice in Kinross run by CHAS for respite breaks.
Director of Fundraising and Communications Roslyn Neely said, “It was a wonderful day – with some very generous members of the public bringing down bags of unwanted clothing. Scotland’s Longest Clothesline has been a very eye-catching way of letting people know that unwanted items in their wardrobes can really benefit CHAS thanks to our partnership with Clothes Aid.”
Business Manager at Clothes Aid Michael Lomotey said, “Scotland’s Longest Clothesline was a terrific success thanks to the donations we received on the day. Since Clothes Aid began its partnership with CHAS over two years ago, the Scottish public have helped raise £230,000 for CHAS while diverting hundreds of tonnes of waste from landfill at the same time.”
For more information about CHAS, visit www.chas.org.uk
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