Charity Bag Collections

[Coldicote]

Once again numerous charity collection bags are coming through the letter box asking for donations of clothing, shoes etc. According to seaches on the internet there are 180,000 registered charities in the UK. I have frequently supported charities, but would like to know more about how they raise money from these collectons and what do they actually spend it on. How do you feel about charity collections, and should they be more informative about what they actually do?

[factor-fiction]

We often fill these bags but we are going to stop. This week we put out the bags at 6.45 for well known charity. By 7am they had gone. Odd, i thought, as it was very dark. Then at 8.30 the official charity can came round. I spoke to the driver who confirmed he hadn't been round earlier.
This has happened before- unmarked vans pick them up then disappear