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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Clothes Aid would like to thank everyone who donated clothes to win a celebrity online fashion find in October and November.
The clothes donated go to giving money directly to the charities: the NSPCC, Make-A-Wish Foundation® UK and the Noah’s Ark Appeal, Cardiff.
With huge thanks to the support of Jeff Banks for the NSPCC who donated his cult TV Clothes Show puffer jacket; Laura Hamilton, presenter on Channel 4’s ‘A Place in the Sun’ and ‘Dancing on Ice’ star for Make-A-Wish, who donated a PPQ dress, and Charlotte Church who donated a Vivienne Westwood halter neck dress (pictured) on behalf of Noah’s Ark Appeal.
We are sorry if you didn’t win this time. We will keep in touch with supporters and, remember, you can still help support our charity partners by becoming a Charity Champion and collecting clothes two or three times a year. See more at http://clothesaid.co.uk/specialcollections/charity-champions/
Thank you Jeff Banks, Laura Hamilton, Charlotte Church and all the supporting staff at the charities NSPCC, Make-A-Wish and Noah’s Ark Appeal.
NOTES TO EDITORS:
• Clothes Aid was started in 1996 and is the largest commercial clothing collection company in the UK. It is a social business meaning that profits are sent to the charity partners it works with or are reinvested in the business for further growth
• Clothes Aid is a fully-licensed fundraiser compliant with all UK Charity Commission regulations concerning the collection and sale of used clothing
• The Online Celebrity Auction celebrates the launch of a new service from Clothes Aid called Charity Champions. Charity Champions is a network of volunteers who collect good-quality clothes, shoes and accessories, still in wearable condition, from friends, family and colleagues a few times throughout the year in order to raise funds for Clothes Aid charities
• Clothing collections provide a valuable source of income for charities and Clothes Aid gives over £1.4 million to UK charities every year. Clothes Aid can sell any clothes that are given but the money received varies depending on their quality. The idea of Charity Champions is that by encouraging people to give better quality clothing, Clothes Aid can raise even more money for its charity partners
• People who have missed out on the auction can still support Clothes Aid charities by filling a bag and giving clothes. Either fill a Clothes Aid bag delivered to your door for collection by a Clothes Aid uniformed collector or sign up to become a Charity Champion and help people in your community raise money for charity, without having to give a monetary donation. For more about Clothes Aid Charity Champions, visit http://www.clothesaid.co.uk/specialcollections/charity-champions
For more information, please contact Jo Moulds, Press & PR Officer, Clothes Aid, on 020 7288 8538, 07968 801467 or jmoulds@clothesaid.co.uk.
Find out more about how your old clothes help our charity partners across the UK.
If you are a school, academy, college or university looking to fundraise through a clothes collections, click here.
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