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http://ClothingCollection.org
An Irish blog website
'exposing fake clothing collection charities'

Introduction

Address:  http://clothingcollection.org  

(Note:  There's no 'www' in the address, and it's 'collection' singular, not 'collections'.)

It's an unusual and stimulating site, down-to-earth, informal and refreshing.  It's highly relevant to CharityBags' remit.

The site is Irish - we assume the Irish Republic.  We guess it's based in Dublin.

Type of site (blog)

Alas, we know next-to-nothing about blogs, but we understand that this Irish site is a blog.  There are various 'posts'.  It's a collaborative/community website.  There are lots of comments from 'ordinary' people.

A note on the site states it uses WordPress   software.  This is a popular free (open-source) 'self-hosted blogging tool'.

Content of site

The heading on the site is :

   " CLOTHING COLLECTION  EXPOSING FAKE CLOTHING COLLECTION CHARITIES "

The site gives details of clothing collections, including large, clear pictures of the leaflets and bags.

For each collection there are details such as :

• Date, 'Description', 'Text', 'Identifying names and numbers', 'Notes', 'Further reading', 'Tags', 'Related posts'.

Examples :

• "Description:   Pink sticker titled, "Used and Unwanted Clothing Collection"."
• "Identifying names and numbers:   Company's Reg No: 391256."
• "Notes:   Looks like the same people who produced 'Giving to Adonay'."

The details include research on who the collectors really are.

The site doesn't seem to have any general information on the issues raised.

Collectors featured

Collectors featured on the site's homepage (a total of 10 when we last looked) :

• VILTIS - www.viltis.eu
• aukurasxcredence- Company reg. No. 441989
• 'New life for your clothes' - Waste Collection Permit Nr. CP D 915/6
• www.ClothingTheWorld.com
• The Third World Clothing Appeal - Company reg. No. 441989
• Second Hand Clothes Collection - REG. no. 5655565A
• Clothing Collection for Second Hand Rose - C-Y RE. No. 378973
• Used and Unwanted Clothing Collection - Company's Reg No: 391256
• Clothing Collection - REG. NO. 382701
• Clothing Collection - two doves - VAT Reg No: IE 2473424P

Collectors featured on other pages include :

• Unwanted Clothing Collection for Second Hand Rose - REG NO. IE63989735
• Used Clothing Collection (for Belarus and Ukraine) - Phone Nr. 0851033456
• Giving to Adonay - phone: 014056063
• Second Life Ukrainian Appeal - C-Y REG. NO: 391493 (R.o.I), SC 309637

Comments

Wording - The wording on some of the leaflets/bags is quite amazing.  We suggest you have a look.  For example, some of the 'fake' leaflets cheekily warn you to be beware of bogus collectors.  Ironically this does give the leaflets more credibility.

Labels - With some of the collections, instead of delivering leaflets or bags, they've provided self-adhesive printed labels, which the collectors suggest you stick on your bags.

Contributors to the website - Their remarks are well worth looking at - for example one person recounts how he reported an illegal collection to three regulators, but no action was taken.

There are also non-Irish contributors, eg from Scotland.

Related pages

• Our page describing the clothing collections page of www.headington.org.uk
• Our Drop-down menus - the pages under the heading: 'Examples of collections'
• Collection leaflets, bags and labels