British Heart Foundation

I have been visiting and donating to the three charity shops on this corner for many years now and often buying a few bits and bobs and it’s great to see people donating goods they no longer want or need for these shops to make money but I am afraid today will be the last I ever give or buy from the British heart foundation. It’s always been a really cramped shop where you can never get around easily especially as I use a rollator to walk for balance but I often see mums with prams struggling round but it’s suppose to be about the floor plan away that aside. Today as I got out to take the donation bag out the car a woman and young guy came out and opened the trade waste bin and proceeded to tip blankets, sheets curtains and pillow cases into it, I said oh my goodness wait I can give them to the Bethany care shelter or fresh start they are needed there is nothing wrong with them, no she said you can’t have them they are going in the bin and poured oil over them I said what are you doing she said stopping people stealing out the buckets! I said but why don’t you recycle them? We don’t recycle, well give them to the homeless shelter, we don’t donate! I have never been so angry lovely warm clean blankets nice fresh looking curtains and other bedding in the bin! If people realised that instead of making some money on the donated good or recycling them even or getting some money from the rag man who comes around d dry Friday that this charity shop was stuffing their buckets with them to go and make the landfill problem worse then surely they would think twice, I will never give them another thing or buy from them.