does no one want my donations?

homealone_2

i have bags and bags of clothes,shoes etc ready for any charity to pick up and yet cannot get anyone to come and pick them up. i have gotten leaflets through the door saying how desperate they are and yet they never seem to come and collect them. does anyone know of any charity they may be interested?

Welshdebtor

I used to work at a large activity centre and all lost property clothing was picked up by this company who then use them to assist various charities.They may be able to assist you getting rid.

http://clothesaid.co.uk/

steve1980

Why don't you take them to the charity shop?

McKneff

To be honest, a lot of these people who drop bags off and collect later (and I mean a lot) are scammers, if you read the bags, they are from companies who give a donation to the charity after all their costs wages, salairies, admin, expesnses, vans, cars, are taken of so they (the charity) just get a portion of the profit.
Read the bags carefully please.

tom717

We had a bag ready to go out once and realised at the last minute that it said nothing about a charity at all. There's an oxfam collection box quite near me so it all goes in there now.

Savvy_Sue

steve1980 wrote: »

Why don't you take them to the charity shop?

It's not always that simple: when we've been sorting through my Dad's clothes, I've ended up bringing them home (a 70 mile drive) because I can access several 'easy to park outside' charity shops, whereas Mum doesn't drive and the charity shops near her are not so easy to park outside.

Also I tend to take his things to shops I don't usually shop at, because I don't really want to see Dad's things on sale, but I'm lucky enough to live in a city with plenty of charity shops. If we dropped them off near Mum then either she or my siblings might see his things.

OP: it depends where you are, if you were in the SW I could make a couple of suggestions, but based on those I'd say try phoning ones which are a local chain rather than a national chain or 'stand-alone'.

Our chain of local hospice shops definitely does collect, fairly reliably.

paddyrg

McKneff wrote: »

To be honest, a lot of these people who drop bags off and collect later (and I mean a lot) are scammers, if you read the bags, they are from companies who give a donation to the charity after all their costs wages, salairies, admin, expesnses, vans, cars, are taken of so they (the charity) just get a portion of the profit.
Read the bags carefully please.

Just to expand on this, these companies advertise for 'self employed collection agents' who have to *buy* yes *buy* the bags for distribution then have a quota to collect in their own vehicles each week. The churn rate is understandably high as you have people paying to compete to get your stuff (why you get so many bags) then realising it is a con, and not wasting any more money. It is rotten the whole way through. Find a local hospice shop or PDSA shop or similar and do a drop off - they will actually get some benefit if you do, otherwise you may as well throw the stuff away for the good it will do the charities if collected by many companies.

aycor

If you contact a local charity shop by phone they will very often arrange a pick up as this ensures they get your donation and it is not wet or damaged.

hermum

Often your local charity shops are more likely to collect, our Hospice will as will a school for special children. Or phone your favourite charity & ask if they will collect.