# Home-collection charity clothes recycling scheme to launch next month

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/12/21/homecollection-charity-clothes-recycling-scheme-launch-next-month/
- Published: 2011-12-21T16:33:01+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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From next month supporters will be able to donate their unwanted clothes to any 
UK charity and have the items collected from their home.

Click Collection will offer a complete service, collecting clothes free from a supporter’s
home by appointment, then cleaning and selling them online.

Click Collection Operations Director, David Alder, says that the new service should
prove useful in particular to charities that do not have a network of shops. In 
addition, the fact that it can raise funds for any registered charity will enable
donors for the first time to donate their clothing to the cause that matters most
to them, rather than being restricted to those with charity shops nearby.

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He commented: “A lot of used clothes donated to charities are of a high quality.
Click Collection will showcase fashion items in our purpose-built online shop, with
coverage throughout the UK. This will attract the best possible selling price, the
sale proceeds less costs being distributed to participating charities.”

He explained that Click Collection will also recycle items not good enough for resale
and distribute the sale proceeds to

the charities. “Nothing goes to landfill” he claimed.

He does not see Click Collection competing with High Street charity shops. “Our 
objective” he said, “is to increase collections and sell to an audience not involved
right now. However our cooperative, online approach could well be more cost-effective
than some ‘bricks-and-mortar’ shops, and provide charities with a better return.
That is certainly our aim.”

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