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| Each year in the UK, around £10 million income is lost by genuine charities because of poor-value, misleading and bogus house-to-house 'charity' clothing collections | Raise 10 pence
or £2? Two charity clothing collections - one raised £2 a bag for charity ... the other donated only 10 pence to charity for the same bag of clothes |
If you receive a door-to-door clothing collection leaflet - who should you contact to check it out? - your district council? trading standards? police? Charity Commission? ASA? - See the Regulators page | ||||
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SALE !
M&S coats now only £8 ... Latest novels 80% off ... CDs
only £1.99 - Pick up a bargain in a charity shop - and help raise money for good causes. There are now over 7,000 charity shops in the UK |
 All change!
- 2006 saw the start of major changes in charity law
... including the rules for licensing of charity collections (which date
back to 1916 and 1939) |
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Law - All charitable clothing collections need a licence
from the local council (or approval from the Office of the Third Sector) - check out the
rules in the House to House Collections Act 1939 |
Choices - "I've got some unwanted clothes etc - Should I give them to house-to-house clothing collections or take them to a recycling centre or take them to a charity shop?" | The Charity Commission's report on door-to-door clothing collections reveals a disturbing picture of many commercial clothing collectors misleading the public | ||||
 Recycling
is worthwhile, but donating
your unwanted goods to a charity shop for
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Bogus charity collectors fined - an unlicensed house-to-house clothing collection in Northamptonshire led to a prosecution by the district council licensing department |
 The
rules for |
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| Bogus charity clothing collections by 'Gotham' were featured on BBC1 TV's Watchdog programme - the leaflets alleged the goods went to charity shops in Lithuania | The Charity Commission's Register lists 180,000 charities in England and Wales - such as Oxfam, RSPCA, Help the Aged, Salvation Army, NSPCC, Scope, Cancer Research | A-Z The A-Z list of clothing collectors includes 25 which have been the subject of complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) - misleading leaflets | ||||
| See the DROP-DOWN MENUS (top of most pages) for a full list of the pages on our website | 
We welcome your comments - see contact us
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See the A-Z list of relevant organisations and guide to abbreviations eg ASA, OFT, TSD, TRA, ACS, OTS. | ||||
Search every word on the CharityBags site using the search box at the bottom of most pages
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See the Useful links page for a classified list of all organisations and websites mentioned on the site, plus other links and some useful printed reference sources ... | ||||
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The Scams and cons page - offers advice on how to avoid being ripped off - including links to Consumer Direct's "Watch out!" scams guide and SafeFromScams.co.uk | ||||
| Textile recycling is a sizeable industry in the UK. The value of secondhand clothing has risen dramatically - to around £700 per tonne. Most is exported (eg to Eastern Europe and Africa) |  Around
500 UK charity shops accept mains- powered
electrical
goods, testing them before sale - such as computers, TVs,
hifi, radios and gadgets. Some even take fridges & cookers . . . |
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