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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The great clothes collection debate reached government yesterday at a round table hosted by the Civil Society Minister Nick Hurd to discuss the increasing problem of bogus gangs cheating genuine charities and lack of enforcement.
For many charities, clothes collections are vital, but Clothes Aid estimate that up to £12m of crucial funds are being lost due to a lack of enforcement and recognition that bogus collectors intentionally operate serious organised criminal networks.
The round table follows a debate led by Tracey Crouch, MP for Chatham and Aylesford, in October asking for stricter punishment on the criminal gangs running these fraudulent operations after Clothes Aid assisted BBC Kent’s exposure of a bogus charity last summer.
At yesterday’s meeting it was reported that the Ministry of Justice is likely to increase sentencing as a deterrent to this crime. Of the 297 thefts reported in 2010 by Clothes Aid, only 21 resulted in prosecution, and the maximum penalty served was a 12-month conditional discharge sentence and £60 fine.
Published 11 January 2011
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