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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Thanks to the vigilence of a Clothes Aid driver, over 11 tonnes of charity donations stolen by bogus charity collectors were recovered last Friday (25th March).
Clothes Aid’s dedicated crime-fighting team, Collection Protection, was alerted to the yard after a Clothes Aid driver witnessed a man stealing NSPCC bags in Bristol.
The driver followed him to a yard on an industrial estate on Victoria Road, Warmley, where he saw Clothes Aid bags being unloaded onto a HGV trailer.
Collection Protection alerted the police and on Friday morning Avon and Somerset Police raided the yard, arresting one man who was later released on police bail pending further inquiries.
“Theft of charitable collections is a particularly despicable crime and we will always do our up-most to bring such mean-spirited criminals to justice,” said Avon and Somerset Police spokeswoman Jenny Bigwood.
Inside the container they discovered 11 tonnes of charity bags belonging to Kidney Research, National Blind Children’s Society, Age UK, PDSA, Great Western Air Ambulance, Cystic Fibrosis Trust, Scope, Salvation Army and the British Heart Foundation, as well as Clothes Aid charity bags intended for the NSPCC, Make-A-Wish and Welsh charity the Noah’s Ark Appeal.
The charity clothes bags stolen by the gang would have fetched around £12,000 on the black market.
Michael Lomotey, Business Manager at Clothes Aid, said: “Bogus collectors think they’re above the law but this incident proves that their days are numbered.”
Clothing collections represent an invaluable source of income for charities and a convenient way for the public to give without costing them a penny.
Published 25th March 2011
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