air ambulance clothes recycling

earthstorm

This implies the OP was told by someone else, which is just a rumour

mumto2loves wrote: »

I was told today that the man in a van

i did speak to the co-ordinator for the North East Air Ambulance when she collected our collection tin.

The dont do the large clothe bins, but for their doorstep collections all their drivers are volunteers and all the bags are taken to a large warehouse where they are separated into

A1 clothes
B1 clothes
Rags

their A1 clothes are placed on clothes buses ( these are large vans that travel markets/fairs and the cloths are are sold from rails in the vans form anything upto £1

B1 clothes that are wearable but damaged in some way, thee are sent to homeless organisations

the rags are weighed and then sent off to a specialist company

mttylad

IMO perhaps the best way to ensure that the air ambulance benifits from your giving then sell your good clothes on ebay and then donate the profits to the air ambulance.

I think they would receive more that way, and you have done your bit.
Put the old stuff in the donations bags so that they get sent to the ragman.

Hoof_Hearted

We had a bag for children's air ambulance. Don't know why kids need a different one. £105 out of every tonne collected goes to charity. The problem is that the price for a tonne of rags is nearer £600. Imagine how much the collectors are making once the good stuff is removed.

I, too, am disillusioned with charities.

earthstorm

Hoof_Hearted wrote: »

We had a bag for children's air ambulance. Don't know why kids need a different one. £105 out of every tonne collected goes to charity. The problem is that the price for a tonne of rags is nearer £600. Imagine how much the collectors are making once the good stuff is removed.

I, too, am disillusioned with charities.

I always double check any of these bags we get through the letterbox and will only place clothes in the ones that are colleted by the actual charity. I always proof read these and looks at logo/image clarity, we once has a BHF one placed through the letterbox and you could tell in an instant it was fake as the red logo was more pink and smudged edges and several typos. contacted the charity and they confirmed they had no planned collections in our area. the shocking thing was the amount of these bags that were filled and left out for collecting