Treating Children with Cancer charity

MothballsWallet

(I've mainly started this thread to vent a little, but if anyone can advise me on what to do, that would be great.)

Anyway, we get regular visits from people representing a charity called Treating Children with Cancer to drop off collection bags. In July 2010 I sent them an email to ask them to stop putting them through my door and that I was withdrawing the implied right of access to my property from them.

Over the last 18 months or so, they've been back at least 8 times. I've written to them, threatened court action, but they've just ignored me. I didn't carry out the court action because I didn't have enough time to do it.

Don't they realise that once the implied right of access is gone, any visit they make is trespassing unless pre-arranged (which they don't do). I've got 6 bags left.

meer53

Put the bags in the bin.

Or do what i do and fill them, then take them to the local Hospice shop.

wary

Use it as a kitchen bin liner and when full, put it out for their collection. When they keep getting bags of leftover food, potato peelings & the like, maybe then they'll scrub you from their list ...

Millie_Millsters

I'm more than happy for anyone to stick a free bin liner through my letterbox, it saves me having to buy them.

fluffnutter

Trespassing's a weird law. Unless they damage anything I don't think they're doing anything wrong.

What's frustrating is that they're ignoring you, you feel you have no control. I find things like this annoying too, but in my calmer moments I realise that by writing to them and withdrawing this and that and threatening legal action, I'm actually winding myself up even more. It's all MY actions that are causing me the frustration - they've not changed their behaviour at all, they're just doing what they've always been doing. Hence I'd probably feel calmer if I'd done nothing in the first place and simply used the bags as bin liners or to take stuff to legitimate charity shops.

wary

fluffnutter wrote: »

What's frustrating is that they're ignoring you, you feel you have no control. I find things like this annoying too, but in my calmer moments I realise that by writing to them and withdrawing this and that and threatening legal action, I'm actually winding myself up even more. It's all MY actions that are causing me the frustration - they've not changed their behaviour at all, they're just doing what they've always been doing. Hence I'd probably feel calmer if I'd done nothing in the first place and simply used the bags as bin liners or to take stuff to legitimate charity shops.

Absolutely spot on. You've hit the nail on the head there, fluffnutter.

OP - you'd be wise to take note of and adhere to this stance. Annoying as it may be, your continued frustration is largely self-induced.

trukdiver

wary wrote: »

Use it as a kitchen bin liner and when full, put it out for their collection. When they keep getting bags of leftover food, potato peelings & the like, maybe then they'll scrub you from their list ...

They won't know who gave them the bag though...

When I worked in a charity shop, we got a bag full of leaves and grass cuttings.:rotfl:The only trouble is, the charity had to pay to get rid of it - when it would have been better on the compsot heap!

pinkteapot

I just put them in my plastic recycling bin. We get them from loads of different charities.

Crisp_£_note

Their only doing their job to get a few quid to keep the rent paid and food on the table. Perhaps their foreign door to door posters who dont understand English enough? My hubby has been out and had several polite words with several charity bag droppers but it falls on deaf ears as their Polish or Russian or other just doing cheap manual labour.

We get 3 bags a day from various charities shoved through our box. I use them for all sorts (dog poo bags, rubbish bags, kichen scrap bin liner, paint tray liners, storage bags (great for seed packs and bulbs as you can usualy turn them inside out and write on them with permanent marker, or for winter / summer clothes), a waterproof liner (put your bathers in to keep your bag dry on way home from swimming pool), kane markers / bird scarers in the garden, garden storage for plant pots, wellie boot covers for when I have to pop into the house I could go on and on as their free and so useful but I think you get my idea?

If thats all too much like difficult just recycle them for other uses, watch out for the vent holes some have though). If thats too much like hard work then just bin them, we put ours on top of the recycle bin and if their not collected by the time the recycle is collected they go out with that too.

Or collect them up and post them back to head office with another warning about trespassing and carry out your intentional threat if it continues!


Its really not worth winding yourself up over them,

wary

Crisp_£_note wrote: »

We get 3 bags a day from various charities shoved through our box. I use them for all sorts (dog poo bags ...

I hope you put these ones outside for their collection?!? :rotfl:

wary

trukdiver wrote: »

They won't know who gave them the bag though...

Maybe not, but at least the Op will have the last laugh rather than getting so wound up about it!!! :rotfl: