Donating to a Charity Shop...which one?

minerva_windsong

When I do a clearout I normally give all my stuff to British Heart Foundation, as that's a charity that's close to my heart (no pun intended), and TBH I'm not bothered what's done with it as long as the charity gets the money somehow. I'd personally donate it to a charity that you care about.

andrealm

I think most charity shops get rid of their not so good donations in a similar way but I doubt if your good clothes would have been sold for fibres, they have to get rid of all their donations somehow (it's probably harder for them these days as you can buy new clothes so cheaply in places like Primark and if they don't sell they would have to pay to dispose of them, so surely it's better to get some money for them by selling for fibres) and they may not have the space to store everything. It takes time to sort through the stuff so it might have still been in the store room, waiting to be priced or waiting for space, or it might already have been sold.

Oxfam has an online store where they sell stuff, there may be some charities that ebay stuff, I'd imagine the main issue with that is that it takes time and there are so many clothes listed on ebay that some items don't sell at all, even good quality items.

sueeve

A local charity might be something to consider. They don't send away to big centres. The Hospice shops are like this, and of course if it's local to you the clothes might suit your area. I have seen things I donated in my local but they only have 3 shops.

DKLS

Charity shops usually get between 6-15 pence per kg of clothes from the rag man. Whats wearable is usually shipped to kenya, what isnt is ground down for industrial wipers etc I give regularly to one charity shop, not even sure what charity is it or who they support, the only reason I go there, is convenience, I can park outside the door, drop the stuff off and be on my way quicksmart, all the others are in a pedestrianised area.

BlondeHeadOn

I would suggest a hospice shop too, they are usually a local affair and really pleased to have good donations.

I have donated to our local hospice charity shop before, and then popped in a week later to check if they were ready for any more donations - and I spotted lots of the items I had donated already out and on the rails and shelves.

Very satisfying, and having had 2 memmbers of my close family die in their local hospices (:sad:), I am always aware that I might be glad of their serviecs one day!

donnaessex

I stopped donating to my local charity shop when I turned up at a boot sale one Sunday and found the Manager flogging some of my old clothes on her own stall.

I do my own boot sales now and donate half of it as a cash payment.

Counting_Pennies_2

Why don't you look on ebay for the local sellers in your area.

You give your items to them, they list them for you and you then pay the person a percentage of the selling price minus their expenses.

You can either choose for the money to come to you and you then donate the money to charity, or you can do a split on the ebay site for a percentage to go to the charity

gmh1

We have a route that takes in about five charity shops. The routine is always the same. We park up and I go in, explaining what we have and asking what they need. Very often a shop will ask for not clothes this week...or oh books please....or even ask if we have specific goods. Sometimes if they have extra staff, someone will pop out and check what we have, almost pull bags out and push bags back, but i really don't mind. By the time we're done practically everything has found a new home.

The only other thing that sometimes works in our area are people who place adverts requesting goods to sell at car boot sales. I know a few who just give to them. Hardly charity though....

Failing that. I bag it all up in double bags and donate whoever is our local charity collecter via their multi coloured bags they leave in our letterboxes every week.

EastEndLass

'sold for fibres'?? i am assuming that she means sold to the ragman - which is still a huge earner for charity shops.

Anything that is deemed unsaleable, or has been put out on the shop floor for 2-3 weeks and then still not sold can be sold to the rag merchant.

British Heart Foundation for example made more than £10million last year from clothes that were unable to be sold, and Salvation Army made £8.6million.

Not exactly a drop in the ocean!

Bloomin_Freezing2

donnaessex wrote: »

I stopped donating to my local charity shop when I turned up at a boot sale one Sunday and found the Manager flogging some of my old clothes on her own stall.

I do my own boot sales now and donate half of it as a cash payment.

:eek:!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some people may say she could've bought it from the shop fair and square to do what she so wished with. As do many people buy from car boots and then re-sell on ebay if they've found a bargain, I still think i'd be a bit miffed with this!

Did make me chuckle though!:rotfl: