# Click Collection opens donated clothes market to all charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/05/21/click-collection-opens-donated-clothes-market-all-charities/
- Published: 2012-05-21T13:38:11+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Six charities are participating in the business at launch but it will be expanded
to others.Online multi-charity clothes retailer Click Collection has opened for 
business, enabling charities without shops to generate income from donated clothing.
The site lets multiple charities benefit from an aggregated clothing collection 
and single online shop.

Click Collection offers a national collection service from donors’ homes, currently
excluding Northern Ireland and Islands. Each item is tracked to its supporter and
the charity they wish to support, so sales are credited appropriately. Donors get
to see exactly how much their items raised, and charities receive summary reports.
Costs and profits are therefore shared according to their sales.

[Click Collection](http://www.clickcollection.co.uk) charges a 5% management fee
on sales generated. Its founders say that they expect to generate a similar profit
for participating charities to that achieved by average High Street charity shops.
It makes no charge to charities for joining the service.

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Clothes are sorted into retail and wholesale streams in order to maximise charities’
income. Items are then added to the service’s online shop. Purchasers are given 
the option to make a donation with Gift Aid as part of the payment process.

Given that the range available will always be different, shoppers can use the site’s
My Shopper service to request to be notified when an item in the right size or of
the right kind is added to the site.

Click Collection believes it is extending the opportunities of fundraising from 
donated clothes to a wider range of charities and to a larger audience of shoppers,
who will no longer be restricted by the items available in charity shops where they
live. It also hopes to overcome the widespread problem of theft of charity bags 
from the pavement.

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