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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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, Make-A-Wish Foundation® UK has released the following press statement:
Make-A-Wish Foundation® UK has been undertaking door-to-door clothing collections with our collections' partner, Clothes Aid, since 2006. In that time, this important and cost-effective method of income-generation has raised over £750,000 for us and funded more than 190 of our magical wishes. Each year, Clothes Aid contractually agrees to raise at least £100,000 for Make-A-Wish, important guaranteed income for our charity that we can rely on. The arrangement we have with them means that they cover the extensive costs of printing, distributing and collecting the bags and of recycling and selling the goods collected, and we get a guaranteed £75 per tonne collected. Our charity therefore bears no costs at all and receives a guaranteed tonnage price, regardless of whether the goods collected are of low or high quality. It is one of the most effective income-generating programmes we have because the costs are nil and the risks so low – we urge the general public to continue donating their clothes and help us make more magical wishes a reality throughout the UK.
There are currently 20,000 children and young people in the UK fighting a life-threatening condition and this year alone 1400 children will turn to Make-A-Wish to have their wish granted. The charity needs to raise £6.8 million in 2012 to achieve this.
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For more information about this press statement, please contact:
Hayley Epps, Make-A-Wish Foundation® UK: T: 01276 405093 M: 07557563214 E: hayley.epps@makeawish.org.uk
Notes to editors:
1. A spokesperson is available for interview
2. The BBC News report can be found at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17024281
3. Please note that Make-A-Wish does not use phrases such as ‘terminally ill’ in order to respect the sensitive nature of life-threatening conditions and what they mean to children and young people and their families. We would ask that this approach is followed and that the term ‘life-threatening conditions’ is used in material for publication
4. Make-A-Wish should be referred to as Make-A-Wish Foundation® UK in the first instance. Thereafter ‘Make-A-Wish’ or ‘Make-A-Wish Foundation’ is suitable. We would ask that you try to keep ‘Make-A-Wish’ on the same line
5. Make-A-Wish grants magical wishes to children and young people fighting life-threatening conditions. The charity was founded in the UK in 1986 Registered charity number: 295672/SC037479 http://www.make-a-wish.org.uk
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