# Gloss on charity

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2002/08/31/gloss-charity/
- Published: 2002-08-31T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Charities and voluntary groups can receive free donations of paint from a recycling
charity called Community Re>Paint.
Research by a Leeds environmental group in the
1990s found that an average household was sitting on 17 cans of half-used paint 
pots. Community Re>Paint is a community charity which aims to liberate those pots
and donate them to charities that are looking for paint. There is no charge to receive
the used or half-used tins of paint.

Community Re>Paint launched its 50th local scheme earlier this month.

Read Second coat by Laurence Pollock at SocietyGuardian.

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