clothing bank

the two clothing banks beside the mini-supermarket at the junction of Upland Road and Hindmans Road have disappeared.

Are there any remaining, locally, and where are they? Within a couple of streets of the Rye for preference

There used to be one next to the Mind shop at the Goose Green roundabout - not sure if it’s still there… Can’t think of one nearer other than remember vague talk about there being ones in the car park on Peckham Rye? St Chrisopher’s charity shop on Lordship Lane also take bags for ragging. Hope you find one!

the two clothing banks beside the mini-supermarket at the junction of Upland Road and Hindmans Road have disappeared.

 

 

I'm not surprised.

I once saw two women pulling stuff out of them and just leaving it on the pavement (presumably after taking what they wanted).

I take clothes which aren't good enough for a charity shop to sell to the hospice shop in a bag clearly marked "rags".

They recycle them somewhere, can't remember where.

Clothing bank in Plough PH car park - needs to be bagged before putting in bank,

I cheered up greatly when I learned about the bank at the Plough, but it is full. I went and checked this evening. Indeed people have put clothing on top of the bin because they cannot get it in,

Is there a reason you can't donate to a charity shop? We have 3 or 4 on Lordship Lane.

Alternatively Traid (they have a branch in Peckham) will come and collect from you.

If the clothing is too tatty to sell on many charity shops will accept it sorted into separate bags as "rags" which they get paid for (as Sue said earlier in the thread).

The recycling centre on Old Kent Road also accepts fabric recycling, goes without saying.

The clothing bank at The Plough is operated by an organisation that is often accused of being a cult - Tvind.

There is a clothing bank outside North Dulwich train station.

The quality of stuff in charity shops is generally quite high and the quality of anything I'm throwing away is generally quite low, so I had assumed charity shops wouldn't want it. Perhaps I should sort it again.

The BHP shop on the Old Kent Road took away more than a dozen bags of clothing when my husband died but that was relatively good stuff.

DKHB

I looked up Tvind on Wikipaedia, thanks for the reference.

St Christopher’s in Lordship Lane take bags marked up as for ragging (they took a bag from me last week). This gets collected for recycling and they get paid (by weight I think).

I will do this

I worked for Humana, a Tvind related fund raiser, a long time ago. They were indeed strange and I only found out about the cult info later. I also read they had lost their charity status in the UK but maybe they have a new identity.