air ambulance clothes recycling

hollydays

Each shop has different ways of running remember

hollydays

earthstorm wrote: »

When the coordinator turns up tomorrow to empty the charity box i may ask her about what the OP says about drivers taking the first pick of donated clothes

One driver.

earthstorm

hollydays wrote: »

One driver.

yes OP mentions 1 driver, but is this normal with all drivers in the OPs area

hollydays

earthstorm wrote: »

yes OP mentions 1 driver, but is this normal with all drivers in the OPs area

What do mean " normal" .the op is simply talking about a supermarket for example, where there are bins. Don't believe everything your told. If in her area they operate a bin and pay someone dirt cheap rate to empty it( yep driver is self employed-bad bad procedure , pay them next to nothing-what do you expect).
If you haven't realised the pressure charity shop managers are under to come up with the goods..

This coupled with poor pay , and the " sympathy factor" ( people don't like to complain because they are doing a fab job aren't they..

earthstorm

hollydays wrote: »

What do mean " normal" .the op is simply talking about a supermarket for example, where there are bins. Don't believe everything your told. If in her area they operate a bin and pay someone dirt cheap rate to empty it( yep driver is self employed-bad bad procedure , pay them next to nothing-what do you expect).
If you haven't realised the pressure charity shop managers are under to come up with the goods..

in a way the OP is only spreading a rumour

I was told today that the man in a van who goes round emptying the big yellow metal bins for clothes (the ones that are normally in car parks next to the bottle banks)

so in her area this may be normal practice to pay these drivers and allow them first pick of whatever is in the bins

hollydays

I hope she persues this..
In her area.. In another area .. Charity shop so called " ethics" stink to be fair because now it's corporate . Volunteers give their time in good spirit .

hollydays

You need to understand-this is sadly very very common practice earthstorm..
All the people who are giving their time freely... It's sad for them.. But charity shops are having to cope with targets.. Run on a skeleton staff sometimes with managers on poor pay.. Each month they have to take a certain amount..
What businesses would not be able to get away with -they can-because of sympathy vote

forgotmyname

Totally disillusioned with charities.

Too many people running them and making far more than they actually donate. Someone mentioned one on this forum a couple of days ago.

I looked into it and out of the £53,000 income £47,000 for admin and running costs,

What happened to helping a charity for the feel good factor. Do the people running the charity really need expensive Merc's to do their job?

That was another one i looked up after getting a leaflet through the offering me a loan with interest rates in the thousands.
When i looked into it they were a charity and received 1/4 million £ from the government.. I thought !!!!!!??? Legalised loan sharks paid for by the Government.

Helping poor people live or some utter twaddle...

mumto2loves

Yes I suppose I am just spreading gossip but the reason I believed it was it was the man who had the job that said it. He didn't say it in a 'guess what I can get a way with' type of way, he was telling us how how good his job is thinking he was being positive. I might not be explaining it very well but I mean he didn't seem to give it a thought that we may think it not right to take the good stuff out.
As far as I know we don't have an actual helicopter charity shop, not that I've ever noticed ( Its Hampshire and isle of Wight) so thinking about it again I don't know where I thought it would be taken.

hollydays

You spoke to him yourself then?