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Introduction

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234. 1. Delivering leaflets and bags  2. Collecting the bags - New page
233. Collections - The Hand of Help Ltd and Kaunas Disabled from Birth - New page
232. Charity clothing collections: Parliament and politicians - New page

Speeches, questions etc - eg by Jo Swinson MP, Jeff Ennis MP

231. 0870 and 0871 non-geographic telephone rates

Revised and updated the page, including :
- the recent addition of 0870 numbers to 'inclusive' call packages
- the categorisation of 0871 numbers as premium rate (from 1 August 2009)

230. Google

Registered with Google Webmaster.  Added the CharityBags website and a sitemap

229. Static sitemap page

Updated the Static sitemap to incorporate all new web pages.
Improved the Introduction.

Note:
- It's only needed by people without JavaScript enabled.
- Everyone else can use the Popup sitemap - see the foot of any page.

228. Links - bare A-Z list

= a list of all the links (on the CharityBags site) to other websites   

Created a new (up-to-date) list from scratch.
Improved the Introduction.

227. Collection leaflet (flyer): 'Collectors of the third world'

Added a section entitled: 'Our comments' - analysing the leaflet (eg 'is it charitable?')

226. Charity law reforms (and the Charities Act 2006)

Rewrote the last section ('Collections and the 2006 Act' onwards).
Colour-coded the current and new regimes.

225. Law - Acts and Regulations

Revised and expanded the page

224. Bogus clothing collections - article by a district council licensing department

Improved the page - especially the explanation at the end

223. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) and clothing collections - New page

Eg ASA adjudications concerning misleading collections

222. Who regulates house-to-house collections?

Improved the page

221. The law on house-to-house collections

Improving the page.  Reduced duplication.
Moving details to new dedicated pages - eg charitable versus non-charitable.

220. A clothing collection: Does it need a licence?  Is it charitable? . . . and misleading 'hybrid' collections - New page

Eg 'charitable' versus 'non-charitable'

219. House-to-House collections - National Exemption Orders - 'New' page

Re-wrote the page from scratch, expanded it , added images.
Page now has user-friendly questions as headings - eg Why...? Who...? Where...?

218. Collections licensing - monitoring and enforcement - New page
217. Collections licensing - registers - New page
216. Collections licensing -applications - New page
215. Emails to CharityBags - New page

A guide to the sorts of emails we receive (suitably anonymised to respect your privacy)

214. Clothing - some trends - New page

Eg fashions, materials, manufacture, retailing, prices, charity shops

213. Collections by E&C Export Ltd on behalf of 'Second Chance' (charity) - New page
212. Prosecution of E&C Export Ltd - New page

Prosecution of the company by Cardiff Council (21 May 2009) for undertaking unlicensed charitable house-to-house collections (for clothes) - allegedly on behalf of the Children's Heart Surgery Fund (CHSF) (a Leeds NHS charity)

211. A brief history of clothing collections - New page

A timeline.  1853 to the present day

210. Government page

Added a section on QUANGOs and Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs)

209. Clothing collections in the media - New page
208. Freedom of Information page

Added a section on the 'WhatDoTheyKnow.com' website

207. Charity shops page

Added a section on the Irish Charity Shops Association (ICSA)  [covers Eire] - including the "Scambusters" school project

206. List of some house-to-house clothing collectors (A-Z)

Redesigned the page.  Improved and expanded the existing entries.  Added around 30 new collectors, including 9 adjudications by the ASA.

205. Some links to the CharityBags website - New page
204. Intersecond Ltd (collector), Azzara (Lithuanian charity) and 'Do Not Delay!' (cancer project) - New page
203. Licensing regimes page

Added a section on the Institute of Licensing, including a copy of their list of 54 licensing regimes

202. What's new page   =this page

Revamped, improved

201. House to House Collections Act 1939

Amended the site to reflect the appearance of the full text of the 1939 Act on the Government's OPSI and Statute Law Database websites
- see House to House Collections Act 1939 - Introduction by CharityBags

200. Help page:    Navigation - searching section

Added a section on Fanix 'Hilitext' - a utility program

199. Renamed pages - redirection 

Added token pages with the names of old (renamed) pages. These redirect visitors to the new page. This avoids unhelpful 'Page not found' error messages.

198. Homepage

Improved - eg added new row of items to foot of table

197. General sources of information - New page
196. Filenames and titles of pages

Reviewed and improved the filenames of pages on the website

Improved the titles of pages
(the 'title' is the content of the HTML <title> tag; it's displayed on the top bar of a browser)

195. Added a 'Useful links' section to the ends of the 'topic' pages listed below :

Charities
Charity cards
Charity shops
Consumer issues
Help
Freedom of information (FoI) and data protection
Government - four sections
Information - four sections
Law - two sections
Problems with regulators
Regulators
Re-use and recycling

In each case, the section is identical to the corresponding one on the Useful links page.

Note:  Each of the 19 'links' sections above is now in a 'server-side include' (SSI) file, which is inserted into the topic page and the Useful links page when you browse. So (mercifully) we only have to update each section in one place (even though it appears on two pages). We're told it's a primitive way of doing it, but it works.
 
Example:  The SSI file comprising the Charity shops Useful links section, is used by :
- the Charity shops page - for its Useful links section, and
- the Useful links page - for its section on charity shops

194. Useful links page - improved
193. Consumer issues - New page
192. Law - New page
191. Textile recycling - New page
190. Planet Aid (clothing collector), Humana and Tvind - New page

Including details of a BBC Radio 4 programme on these organisations ('Face the Facts'), and information on Humana Alert / Tvind Alert

189. Clothing collections: Theft of bags - New page
188. The Association of Charity Shops (ACS) - New page
187. Collection leaflets, bags and labels - New page

Notes on their form - size, shape, materials etc (not their content =wording etc)

186. Clothes Aid - New page

Clothing collection company. A commercial partner working with charities

185. Just Help Foundation - registered charity - New page

Unlicensed charitable collection, with picture of leaflet

184. http://ClothingCollection.org :  A website 'exposing fake clothing collection charities' - New page

Our description of this Irish website/blog

183. Navigation -  Drop-down menus (at the top of most pages)

Menu items:  Improved their wording, order, grouping, icons etc

Created a new main (top-level) menu heading called "Charities"
Moved to it, the 6 charity items currently under the heading called "General"

182. Government - New page

A brief guide to government - central and local

181. Navigation - The two versions of the Sitemap
180. Freedom of information (FoI) and open government, and data protection page

Improved and expanded the page

179. Flyer mid-2004 - collection by 'Collectors of the third world'

Added it to the drop-down menus (under the heading 'Examples of collections - Dubious...')
(previously omitted it in error)

178. Pages made fixed-width

Changed most pages to fixed-width (most now 590 pixels) - to keep the layout unchanged at higher screen resolutions :
- line lengths stay the same (reasonable lengths)
- the layout of pages isn't distorted

177. Charities and honesty - New page

- Issues of integrity, efficiency, scrutiny etc
- 'Pretend' (bogus) charities

176. News and snippets - New page

An informal miscellany of short items
Its contents are changed frequently

175. 0870 and 0871 non-geographic telephone rates - New page
174. Scams, cons etc - New page

- Scams etc in general [not specifically charities]

173. www.headington.org.uk - "Charity" clothes collections page - New page

Our description and summary of their page

172. Charity shops page

Charity shop (courtesy of Oxfam) In response to a request for information, from a national newspaper :

171. Definitions page

- Improved the page
- Added/moved definitions from other pages of the site
- Added new entries - eg 'third sector', 'commercial'

170. Help page

Rewrote and re-organised the page

Decided which sections were :

Then moved the 'general information' sections towards the end, and presented them differently to the 'specific information' (eg by headings, colour and box borders)

Deleted some sections - eg display colour-depth, CSS

Added some new sections - eg on JavaScript

169. Disclaimer page

Added a section on Generalisations

168. Donations and types of house-to-house collections page

Improved and expanded it
Renamed it to: 'Choosing the best way to donate your clothes'

Added two new sections :

167. The law relating to house-to-house collections page

Updated and re-organised the page. Added a plain-English summary near the top. Redrafted existing sections.

166. Improved appearance of the site

eg changed:  default font, font weights (in headings), some backgrounds

165. List of 'Holders of [national] Orders of Exemption'

Informed by the Government's Office of the Third Sector (OTS) that their website now includes their List of 'Holders of [national] Orders of Exemption'.

Accordingly :

Our thanks to the OTS for their help.

164. Home Office, Office of the Third Sector and Exemption Orders

Changed the website to reflect the transfer of departmental responsibility for charities :

Exemption Orders (concerning charitable house-to-house collections) :

163. Charity law reforms page and related pages

Added a section on the Charities Act 2006, including the changes soon to be made to the regulation of house-to-house (and street) collections

162. Images - About images - New page

Created by moving the sections on images to it - from the Acknowledgements, Copyright and Help pages.

161. Images - Added new images to the site, courtesy of www.FreeImages.co.uk

eg additions to the Charities page. See also the About images page

160. Problems and solutions page - expanded and updated

eg added a section on the List of charities with national Exemption Orders

159. Links/list pages - improved and simplified :

Computer keyboard (image courtesy of James Gardiner/SCRAN)

158. Images from SCRAN

Added new images to the site, courtesy of SCRAN (a Scottish educational charity) - eg additions to the Help page
See the About images page

Charity shop (image courtesy of Oxfam)

157. Charity shops page
156. Homepage (index.htm)
155. The Charity Commission's report on clothing collections - New pages
154. Law - Acts and Regulations page

Expanded the page
Moved the section on the waiving of Crown Copyright by HMSO to the Copyright page

153. 'Law on collections' page - split it to form three pages :
152. Navigation - Sitemap

Added a sitemap. This uses the data contained in the new drop-down menus.
Two versions of the sitemap are provided :

See Help for more information

Deleted the 'Site Index' page and references to it

151. Navigation - Drop-down menus
150. Licensing regimes page - expanded

Added new sections and more examples

149. Navigation - External links

Changed the suffix symbol used to indicate external links (ie links to other websites) to 

Example :     Charity Commission

148. Acknowledgements - New page

Created by moving to it, the acknowledgements section of the homepage

147. Help page - Navigation section

Added new items, including:
- how to open a new (second) browser window
- using a scroll-mouse
- using the Opera browser for its Links facilities

146. Navigation - Added a site search facility (PicoSearch)

A search box is at the foot of most pages. See Help for more information

145. Organisations - Updated various entries

eg ASA, Which?, BBC Watchdog, direct.gov.uk, Charity Commission

144. Re-use and recycling page

Added references to the Textile Recycling Association (TRA) and ENCAMS

143. List of some house-to-house collectors - New page

A-Z table of about 35 collectors so far.
Includes comments, and states which have been subject to ASA adjudications.

142. ABC1 charity collections page

Revised the page

141. Applied Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to the website
140. List of charities with national Exemption Orders - Our introduction page

Made changes to the page

139. Useful sources of information page
138. Law - Acts and Regulations - New page

Eg waiving of Crown copyright; how to see Acts and Regulations

137. Freedom of information (FoI) and open government - New page
136. Problems with regulators - New page

Including information on complaints procedures and ombudsmen

135. Donations and collections page

Added a new section at the bottom, headed:
 "Regulating collections - licences, enforcement etc"

134. The law relating to charitable collections page
133. Navigation - Added a 'table of contents' (TOC) to the top of most pages

Each is located below the page heading, above the body text.
They're currently entitled "Headings on this page:"

132. Watch out for bogus charities - warning by a district council's licensing department page (article in council's magazine)

Added a section entitled "Our comments" below the article

131. House-to-house charity collectors selling donations at car boot sales page (newspaper article)

Added a section entitled "Our comments" below the article

130. Donating to charity? Are you certain? 'Be cautious' is council's advice - New page

Article in local newspaper: Collection by Kosta Ltd / "H.K.L Charity"
A recent bogus collection, with a photo of the leaflet and comments by us

129. Charity shops page

"Useful sources of information" section:
Entry for Association of Charity Shops (ACS):
Updated contact information - new address, telephone numbers, website etc
(Our thanks to ACS for emailing us.)

Added sections on :   books, magazines

128. Navigation - Site Index page

Split the final (7th) section (headed "The CharityBags website") into two, as follows:

127. About us - New page

A guide to who we are, the status of CharityBags, funding, its origins etc

126. Images - Added "ALT" tags

(ie alternative) descriptive text to most images. Helps accessibility - eg people who are browsing using text-only mode.

125. Charity law reforms - New page

The Government's proposals for reforming charity law. Includes details of reports, with quotations. One report is just on charity collections (a gem)

124. Licensing regimes - New page

Information on some other licensing/regulatory regimes

123. Disclaimer page
122.
House to House Collections Act 1939 - our introduction - New page
House to House Collections Act 1939 - all pages - New page

= A scanned copy of the Act.  = 11 images

Had a second session on this:

121. Homepage (index.htm)

Redesigned - eg smaller, less cluttered

120. 'Useful sources of information' page

Added 'A-Z list of the links on this page to other websites'
= New section at bottom of the page

119. Organisations - HMSO and The Stationery Office (TSO)

Clarified the distinctions between the two organisations - eg on the page entitled 'Useful sources of information'

118. Flyer delivered late 2003 page

Expanded the introduction which analyses the flyer's wording

117. Help page
116. Definitions of some relevant words page
115. List of organisations and key to abbreviations used on this website - New page

A-Z with categories, notes and links

114. Bogus charity collectors fined - New page

Press release by South Northamptonshire Council (SNC), announcing successful prosecution of 'Third World Recycling' - and our comments

113. Charity shops page - Computer software

= New section

112. Regulators page - 1. Licensing departments of local authorities

Update regarding 'who does what' - confirming that licensing departments are responsible for enforcement of unlicensed charitable collections (outside London) rather than the police.
=Amended section

111. Images - added more

eg to Charity shops page

110. Navigation - Site Index page
109. What's new? - New page

= this page

108. Donations and collections page

Recycling loop logo

Added a new section entitled :
"2. Taking your unwanted goods to a recycling/re-use centre"

Inserted the section between :

  1. Taking your unwanted goods direct to a charity shop (the best option), and
  2. Using house-to-house collections
107. House to House Collections Act 1939 - our introduction and related pages - New pages

= 13 web pages

106. Leaflet (and bag): "Collectors of the third world" - New page

A dubious collection

105. Leaflet (flyer): "Business reg. no. 4219916" - New page

Collection of unwanted clothes for Eastern Europe "... to be sold at a charitable price".
Dubious collection.

104. Navigation - Links in headers and footers

Added, improved and standardised navigation links at top and bottom of most pages

103. Regulators of house-to-house collections - New page

"Who does what?" - Local council licensing departments, the police, trading standards, Home Office, OFT, Charity Commission, ASA etc

102. Help - New page

Help and advice on viewing the site, printing out etc.
Moved:  Was part of Homepage. Now is a standalone page.

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