Donating to a Charity Shop...which one?

sazza42

Whichever charity you choose, make sure they are using the gift aid scheme so that they can claim tax on your donated goods.

adouglasmhor

alec_eiffel wrote: »

I agree, we had a couple of buyers come in looking for bric a brac to sell on. They did a different town each day to get stuff to ebay or sell in their shop each week. He even complained to me one day that it wasn't as good now charities were becoming more professional and know the value of things these days.

Over the past year or so we also had a bloke coming in every week asking for real fur coats, apparently there's a big demand from them at the minute and he left his card and offered generous prices for any real fur we might get in.

We had one demanding early entry to a jumble sale for a local charity. i chased him.

Cool user name BTW as the Navajo Know!

belfastgirl23

some charities also put stuff on online shops, eg oxfam

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/second-hand-clothes

your stuff might well end up there if it's good

Glad

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GiveItBack

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.

Most of the shops I know have a contractual regulation against staff taking part in boot sales etc for themselves.

This is very unusual, and something I'd be telling the charity HQ about.

XxXfashionqueenXxX

It's lovely that you want to give away nice nearly new items to a charity shop, you must have a heart of gold. But I do recommend ebaying it, theres a woman at my work who does itfor me so maybe theres someone at your work. And if they don't sell things like toys and clothes maybe donate them to a hospital, and for other small pieces go to your church (around the time now) and ask about the shoebox appeal and fill a box with things like stationery etc.

Loanranger

I agree, I prefer donating to Hospice shops.
I donate to the Hospice where my ex MIL passed away some years ago.
I have registered for Gift Aid with them and they send me a letter from time to time if my things have been sold telling me how much my stuff has raised.
Last year they raised 150 pounds selling my stuff and my mum's stuff.
They have a warehouse on an industrial estate so it's easy to take a car full of things and park right outside.
They also use Ebay to sell their donated goods.
It's a 75 mile round trip but I want this Hospice to have my stuff as they cared so well for my ex MIL.

Ianna

belfastgirl23 wrote: »

some charities also put stuff on online shops, eg oxfam

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/second-hand-clothes

your stuff might well end up there if it's good

A lot of oxfams sell on ebay as well - it's worth asking your local oxfam if they do it because as we both know tagged and branded clothes do really well there.