Balloo, Bangor - buys your old clothes

2scoops2

I always leave old clothes into the charity shop.
I just advise them "Bag A is a RAG BAG" e.g not wearable
I always feel welcomed & thanked for the bags of both quality.

saverbuyer

uccbangor wrote: »

And who is paying the so called 'directors' of these charitys, or is it charity in name only?

I have no idea what you are talking about. They would be trustees of a charity not directors. They are also usually unpaid.

Anyway I think it better that charity get the benefit of 5 times the amount paid by these cash collectors and use it on actual services.

I'd rather it go to pay for treating cancer, guide dogs etc. than go to a profit making director of a company.

Please go and advertise your business somewhere else.

saverbuyer

You need to register as a company representative if you are posting on behalf of a company.

D.A.

Way to get banned. :-)

saverbuyer

I I would suggest anyone considering giving their clothes to companies like this read the site below (particularly the royalties collection part)

http://www.charitybags.org.uk/donations_and_house_to_house_clothing_collection_types.shtml

88,000 may sound like a lot of money but we don't know if this is over a year or ten. We don't know how much profit the company made. We do know that charities are better off selling the items in a shop and getting all the money.

So if you get bags through you door saying "£50.00 plus VAT goes to....." Think is this the best way to give????
B. Royalty collections:
Goods collected house-to-house by charities/businesses and sold commercially, with a royalty per tonne given to charity

A lot of "charity" bag collections are done by commercial companies, which sell on the goods for a profit. The companies undertake to donate a specified sum of money per tonne of collected goods to the charity (typically £40 to £80 per tonne). We refer to these as royalty collections.
£50 per tonne may sound like a lot of money, but it's not. These types of collection can be poor value for the charity (compared to taking your unwanted goods to a charity shop yourself) as the following example shows :
Example - xStatistics:A typical item of clothing (say a dress) weighs around 1000 gram (two pounds). This is only one 1,000th of a metric tonne.

• If you give the dress to a royalty collection, it will raise only about 5 pence for the charity (in other words £50 per tonne, divided by 1,000).
• By contrast, if you take the same dress yourself to a charity shop, it will be sold for around £7.
  If you then subtract (say) 80% for the shop's overheads, this means around £1.50 net income for the charity.
  That's around 30 times more income for the charity than the 5 pence raised on the basis of £50 or so per tonne.

Would you prefer your unwanted dress to raise 5 pence or £1.50 for charity ?

HMSBAZ

i took bags to ucc and they where brilliant, £28 i got, the staff were very helpful, they even come out and collect, and ive set up a fund raising scheme with them for my local football team, where they supply bags, leaflets etc, they collect it, and even have bonus schemes.

Now i have heard bad stories about certain charity shops, where staff there take good items for themselves in which people bring in, this person above says about overheads etc, are charitys not extinct from paying certain overheads, and to pay only one pound in eight seems very low indeed, could they also tell me how much is raised by some of these charitys, seemingly they know a lot, in ref to above post, UCC have told us they raised £88,000 in 2 years which i found out myself by contacting Childline.


Some people need to get to know both sides of a story before putting bad posts on forums.

D.A.

Only your second post, and you wade into a controversial thread defending the business in question?

Hmmm........

HMSBAZ

so your not allowed opinions here now, these guys, ucc have 30 shops provincewide, hardly your backstreet gangster, and I do have experience in working with them! Im only expressing opinion here, anyone i speak to say same about certain charity shops etc, don't be shy speak out, it's free!

saverbuyer

HMSBAZ wrote: »

i took bags to ucc and they where brilliant, £28 i got, the staff were very helpful, they even come out and collect, and ive set up a fund raising scheme with them for my local football team, where they supply bags, leaflets etc, they collect it, and even have bonus schemes.

Now i have heard bad stories about certain charity shops, where staff there take good items for themselves in which people bring in, this person above says about overheads etc, are charitys not extinct from paying certain overheads, and to pay only one pound in eight seems very low indeed, could they also tell me how much is raised by some of these charitys, seemingly they know a lot, in ref to above post, UCC have told us they raised £88,000 in 2 years which i found out myself by contacting Childline.


Some people need to get to know both sides of a story before putting bad posts on forums.

Your post makes little or no sense.

Try reading the link above.

Please anyone thinking about donating clothing in the bags posted through your door with a charity "working in partnership" please remember that a very very low percentage of the money obtained by the private company carrying out the collection is given to the charity name they use.

Read the small print. If it says something like "we will donate £50 plus VAT per tonne to charity xxxxx" you are always better to give directly to a shop.

Why should 95% of the money raise from your "donation" be used to pay a private company?

If people want to sell their clothes to a company such as this please remember that for every bag given to a charity shop they can make £20-25. 5 times the amount you will receive.

You’ll know that 100% of your donation is going to charity who will use it for a good cause. My local charity shop is crying out for stock at the moment. They provide fantastic services to the homeless and poor especially at Christmas and raise much of their fund through their charity shop.

saverbuyer

Can we get this reported as spam please.