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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MP Jo Swinson donated clothes to Children's Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS) today to launch a new environmental clothes collection scheme in East Dunbartonshire run by Clothes Aid.
The new collections will drastically reduce the number of plastic bags Clothes Aid currently distributes to collect clothes, by issuing calendars to households throughout East Dunbartonshire, highlighting when their monthly collections will take place.
To donate to CHAS, people can simply fill a CHAS Clothes Aid bag or their own plastic bag (labelled for CHAS) with unwanted clothing and place it outside their door on the designated collection day.
Clothing donated to Clothes Aid saves energy by extending a garment’s life and preventing good quality items ending up in landfill which takes up much-needed space and emits dangerous greenhouse gases as it degrades.
Stylish Scots bin over 2000* tonnes of textiles every year which could be given to Clothes Aid to raise much-needed funds for CHAS.
Jo Swinson said, “These new collections have been developed by Clothes Aid to dramatically reduce its environmental footprint.
"Instead of delivering thousands of plastic bags for only one specific collection, residents can now use the new calendars to quickly and efficiently see when they can donate each month, whilst being reassured that all the clothes will benefit CHAS.”
Published 21st January 2011
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