This charity shop in St John's Street, Bury, not only takes in items and clothes to re-sell but also 'rags' type clothes and materials for recycling, for which they collect a fee direct from the larger recycling organisations. I can't say this often enough - please be careful who you place charity bags outside the house for. There are many organisations who have well known charity names on the bags they leave but only give a small percentage of the proceeds to them. Please, please, please don't give good clothes to such collectors. They could end up shredded. I believe it should say on the bag who receives what, but generally speaking if you know of a local charity shop e.g. Heart Foundation, Cancer Research, Age Concern and so on, then the shop will benefit directly from the clothes etc that you donate if you leave the bags out for collection.
Today I walked into town specifically to deliver a bag of 'damaged' clothes to each but I did point out that there was a pair of young men's jeans in there with a small tear in, which they might be able to sell in the shop. They agreed - on the basis that many jeans are sold from shops like that
