Recently there has been a spate of leaflets in the NW2 area asking ‘can you spare your unwanted clothes’.
Designed in a deliberately misleading way, it is easy to mistake these for a charity collection. In fact it does state on them that ‘your donations are sent to the third world countries...’.
But this is not a charity, it is a for profit company, Rutex Ltd, that has already been disciplined by the Advertising Standards Authority for using misleading advertising.
Don’t fall for it!
West Hampstead and Fortune Green have a number of local charities that would welcome your donations, rather than this for profit, and frankly slightly suspect company.
If you have had one you can complain to the ASA here:
http://www.asa.org.uk/Complaints-and-ASA-action/Adjudications/2009/9/Rutex-Ltd/TF_ADJ_46902.aspx
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