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Wringing every last penny out of a collecting box
Howard Lake | 17 August 2003 | News
Old charity collecting boxes don’t die, they just go on sale on eBay.
An old RNIB Sooty Collecting box has been sold on online auction site eBay.co.uk. It went for £16.50.
Not a huge sum of course, but it does demonstrate that charities could make their old collecting boxes generate one last donation. In this case the interest was not so much in the charity as the children’s character: the purchaser was a collector of Sooty and Sweep material.
Of course, selling collecting boxes with charity logos on to the highest bidder could be a fraudster’s dream. So perhaps this income stream is only relevant for the truly old or collectable collecting tins or devices. Still, izzy, whizzy, let’s get busy turning those old collecting tins into cash.
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Presumably someone somewhere collects collecting tins? If so, do let UK Fundraising know.
- Home Office announces proposals to regulate charity collections (10 September 2003)
- Volunteer raises £25,000 over 10 years of gala dinners (14 October 2003)
- Charity Commission releases dormant money for local charities (29 October 2003)
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.