# Charity retailing good practice code launched

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/06/09/charity-retailing-good-practice-code-launched/
- Published: 2005-06-09T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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The Association of Charity Shops has launched a Code of Charity Retailing to promote
good practice in charity retailing and to maintain public confidence in charity 
shops.
The Code covers all aspects of charity retailing. It has been developed specifically
for charities that run shops, and its aims include promoting high standards and 
increasing support for and donations to charity shops.

The Association intends that the Code will help maintain public confidence in charity
shops as a valuable form of charity fundraising.

There is also a long-standing problem of organisations portraying themselves as 
charities and collecting goods from households using collection sacks and leaflets
that cleverly mimic the look of legitimate charitable collections. By identifying
legitimate charity shops, it will be easier to highlight these bogus collectors.

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The Code of Charity Retailing has already been adopted by a wide range of charities,
from large national organisations to local hospices. The Association believes that
it is inclusive: it aims to promote the same high standards in all charity shops
who sign up to the Code across the UK.

All organisations signing up to the Code of Charity Retailing must be members of
the Association of Charity Shops.

Members of the Code will display a logo, which illustrates that it is a member of
the ‘Code of Charity Retailing’ in their shops or on textile and book recycling 
banks, on house to house collection sacks and vans.

Initially, compliance with the Code of Charity Retailing will be voluntary for members
of the Association of Charity Shops. Some charities may need additional training
and support before they can comply with the Code. It is intended, however, that 
the Code will become mandatory for all members of the Association of Charity Shops
in future.

Lekha Klouda, Executive Secretary of the Association of Charity Shops, said: “the
Code of Charity Retailing is an important step forward for the sector, and serves
to reassure people wanting to donate to, shop at or volunteer in a charity shop 
that has signed up to the Code that it will be operating within national good practice
guidelines.”

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