Plea for old clothes to help charity (From The Oxford Times)
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Plea for old clothes to help charity
12:00pm Monday 23rd April 2012 in News
Plea for old clothes to help charity
New recycling bins for unwanted clothes have been placed across the county to help a local charity.
Aspire, which runs businesses to create employment for disadvantaged people, has bought 10 purple containers with funding from Oxford City Council.
Last year the charity, which recycles donations, worked with 200 people in Oxfordshire and saved tons of clothes from going to landfill.
Jane Harris from Aspire said: “We are so excited about these new bins and what it’s going to mean for everyone at Aspire.”
The bins can be found at Co-op stores in Chipping Norton, Kidlington, Grove and Long Hanborough and at Dalton Barracks, Monument Park in Chalgrove, Siemens in Eynsham, Unipart in Cowley and St Hilda’s college, Oxford.
Volunteer Kevin Cooper, pictured, said: “The new recycling banks will help us pump money back into the charity."
Comments(3)
Jane Harris Aspire Oxford
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10:03am Tue 24 Apr 12
John Lamb
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9:01pm Wed 25 Apr 12
Jane Harris Aspire Oxford wrote:Brilliant. My old clobber will be with you shortly.
Hi John - thanks for your interest. Yes, I am pleased to say that 100% of all money raised goes towards the costs of running Aspire and all beneficiaries of our work are local residents. Our trainees also do all the work on the recycling team, so your donations create jobs as well as invaluable funds. This is a project run by local people for local people and we rely on the support of, yes, you've guessed it, local people :)
John Lamb says...
9:22am Tue 24 Apr 12