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Odd donations to charity shops #247: the dead hamster

Howard Lake

Howard Lake | 9 August 2007 | Blogs

Third Sector‘s ‘Paper Round’ back page section is developing a nice line in featuring peculiar or shocking donations to charity shops. This week’s story concerned an Oxfam shop volunteer in West Wickham, Kent, who discovered a dead hamster in a cage which had been bagged up and left outside the shop.
Wendy Mortimer was angry that someone could have thrown away a dead pet like rubbish so ensured the animal received a proper burial.
There was no mention how much the cage was sold for.

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Howard Lake

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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.

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