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

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.

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.