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Help raise money for Haiti through our charity shops and Tesco

By Katrina Crew
January 22, 2010 at 9:00 am

A charity shop volunteer hands a customer a bagClean out your closets and bring your unwanted clothes, shoes, books and other stuff to your local Red Cross shop to help us raise money for Haiti.

From today to Saturday 13 February (inclusive), you can donate things to your local British Red Cross shop, with all money raised from the sales going directly to the DEC Haiti Earthquake Appeal.

When you donate the goods, tell the shop volunteers you want the money to go to Haiti. Other donated goods will continue to be accepted and sold in Red Cross shops with the money going as usual to help vulnerable people in crisis in the UK and overseas.

Find out what kinds of donations our charity shops take

We’ll also have people out collecting money at Tesco stores around the country this weekend.

Image ©  Jonathan Banks/British Red Cross

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  • Matt Jones

    To volunteer to collect for the Haiti Earthquake Appeal at your local Tesco store sign up online via this link: https://www.redcross.org.uk/forms_adv.asp?id=102387

  • Matt Jones

    To volunteer to collect for the Haiti Earthquake Appeal at your local Tesco store sign up online via this link: https://www.redcross.org.uk/forms_adv.asp?id=102387

  • Citybooks

    if the red cross is so short of funds perhaps they should discontinue their expensive refurbishment programme and use the money for the causes its donated for.

  • http://blogs.redcross.org.uk British Red Cross

    Hi Citybooks. All money raised from the sales went directly to the DEC Haiti Earthquake Appeal. None was spent, or would ever be, spent on refurbishment.

  • Anonymous

    test

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