Come on, be fair, Cops can get it right once in while

[Blott]

Greater Manchester Police's practical and clever idea to donate 1,000 tonnes of fake designer gear to the homeless and those in need is inspired.

After removing the bogus labels and rebranding the items, the clothes and shoes are given to charities and community organisations, while unsuitable items are shredded to create new items such as bedding.

[BoroRedKen]

Yes great idea. Fully support this. Always thought the incineration was a bit crazy. Will admit never thought of rebranding the gear and giving it to people that could use it.

Now if they could only think of what do with all that weed..........

[BoroRedKen]

I paid 55 quid for this years away shirt.

My mate showed me his knock off for 15 quid and it was better quality and print than the "real" 1!.

[BoroRedKen]

This seasons shirts were pish tbh.

The home shirt gets loads of little snags in it from the slightest contact with anything other than the body.

[Johnny Thunder]

Class idea from the Coppers.

[TerryCochranesSocks]

Well done GMP - never thought I'd say that!  It's not as easy as you'd think to give stuff.
About 10 years we were providing the fulfilment (storage, pick, pack and despatch) for a Christmas promotion where the 'prizes' were puffa jackets. Anyway the promotion died on its arse and the agency basically just told us to bin the remaining jackets because they didn't want to pay the storage for them, there was about 20 pallets worth of these things!

I tried to give those jackets to Oxfam and various other charities. They could have had them for nothing just come and get them. None of the charities I spoke to were willing to collect them, they all wanted us to pay for delivery to London. Some of the charities asked loads of questions about where the jackets were made, had the workforce been properly treated etc.
It was a bloody nightmare, all these thick warm coats, freezing weather and people on the streets and the charities just turning their noses up.

For a few weeks I bunged a few boxes worth into my van and gave a few jackets to charity shops in York (some of them declined them) and then I just gave them directly to homeless in York, Selby and Goole. They (at least those not off their tits) seemed grateful. We ended up putting over half of the coats into landfill.

It kind of changed my attitude to charities for a long time and now when I give it's to animal charities that I know do really good work.

[BoroRedKen]

Charity shops have become very choosey up here. It seems to be all furniture at a hundred or above quid.

Try giving books to charity shops lately.

[BoroRedKen]

I bought some books from the local library.

Read them then took them back for the library to resell them.

They would not take them back.

[Blott]

Well done GMP - never thought I'd say that!  It's not as easy as you'd think to give stuff.
About 10 years we were providing the fulfilment (storage, pick, pack and despatch) for a Christmas promotion where the 'prizes' were puffa jackets. Anyway the promotion died on its arse and the agency basically just told us to bin the remaining jackets because they didn't want to pay the storage for them, there was about 20 pallets worth of these things!

I tried to give those jackets to Oxfam and various other charities. They could have had them for nothing just come and get them. None of the charities I spoke to were willing to collect them, they all wanted us to pay for delivery to London. Some of the charities asked loads of questions about where the jackets were made, had the workforce been properly treated etc.
It was a bloody nightmare, all these thick warm coats, freezing weather and people on the streets and the charities just turning their noses up.

For a few weeks I bunged a few boxes worth into my van and gave a few jackets to charity shops in York (some of them declined them) and then I just gave them directly to homeless in York, Selby and Goole. They (at least those not off their tits) seemed grateful. We ended up putting over half of the coats into landfill.

It kind of changed my attitude to charities for a long time and now when I give it's to animal charities that I know do really good work.

for obvious reasons I cannot say who I work for, but you are on the button. Try giving anything away with a plug on, even if it's still in the box unopened. Big companies get stuck all the time for not giving their gear to charity, sometimes it's almost impossible.

[BoroRedKen]

I suppose the big leccy companies could somehow sell the older stock/models of things for next to nothing and just give the cash to charities they support.

I have no clue about how the logistics of that would work.

 :ponder:

[BoroRedKen]

Hey Blotts i get why you cant say who you work for.

I have self awareness.

I am guilty of it.

If you "cross" someone then problems can spill over into work life.

Yeah. I can be part of that problem i dont deny it.

Have i ever "reported" anyone?

Thats for other people to decide about my character.

Working for a charity can be a thankless and anon job sometimes.

But if you believe what you do helps just 1 person then more power to you.