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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Today (Wednesday 13th October) Tracey Crouch, MP for Chatham and Aylesford, led a debate at Westminster Hall following her motion for stricter enforcement on the criminal gangs running fraudulent charity operations.
Ms Crouch tabled the motion after a BBC exposé caught a bogus charity claiming to raise money for Breakthrough Breast Cancer, misleading residents across Kent into donating clothes.
She explained that her hope is that there will be greater scrutiny of current and proposed legislation while raising awareness that bogus charity collections are not the isolated crimes of the opportunist thief, but part of serious organised criminal networks operating throughout the country.
Karen England, Director of Fundraising at Make-A-Wish, said: “Clothing collections provide a vital income stream for Make-A-Wish, raising over £270,000 for us last year and funding 67 of our wishes.
"At a time when charities face enormous financial pressures, this is an extremely cost-effective and popular fundraising activity. It is vital that the general public’s trust and support for clothing collections is not undermined by the unscrupulous actions of these bogus collectors.”
Miss Crouch added: “If we are to see any kind of success in combating this morally abhorrent criminal activity, which costs charities millions of pounds per year, there needs to be a far greater degree of co-operation between police authorities and regulatory bodies across the country, a tightening of legislation and harsher penalties for those found guilty of bogus charity collections."
Published 13th August.
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