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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Six members of the gang arrested last October when police raided a yard containing over half a million pounds worth of stolen clothing donations were re-arrested and charged with multiple counts of theft, last week.
Bags intended for the NSPCC, Salvation Army and Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance were discovered among the bags mostly intended for Second Life.
The gang were arrested after the Metropolitan Police tracked a lorry from Ferry Lane to Dover which contained stolen donations.
Second Life was caught collecting in Ireland with a false charity number four years ago and collects illegally without a licence across the UK.
Clothes Aid estimates that around 15% of all bags left for genuine charities are stolen every year, to be sold on the black market to Eastern European and African countries where there is a huge demand for western high-street fashion.
Published 12th April 2011
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