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Charities combine to halt bogus collections and doorstop thefts
By Emma Rigby, Third Sector, 20 June 2007
The Association of Charity Shops will meet Clothes Aid and a large coalition of charities in the first week of July to develop a central alert scheme to stop bogus charity collectors.
The meeting will discuss the problem of commercial companies that collect donations of clothes and other items for seemingly charitable purposes. Another subject will be groups that carry out large-scale thefts of donation bags. The association estimates that these practices cost UK charities between £2.5m and £3m a year. The...
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