Air Ambulance Service scam - clothing collections

When you get a leaflet or bag :

• IMMEDIATELY contact the Licensing Department of your local district council - and mention the "House to House Collections Act 1939".
• Ask the council to intercept the collectors on the collection day (with police help).
• Your council can prosecute the collectors for conducting an "unlicensed charitable collection" - using the 1939 Act.
• Note: Even if the leaflet doesn't use the word "charity", it still needs a collection licence if it purports (ie appears) to be "a collection for a charitable purpose". The 1939 Act says this means any "charitable, benevolent or philanthropic purpose ..." - in other words, any "good cause".
  Indicators of this are phrases they use like "please donate", "...thank you for your generosity" or "help others".
• If your council say they haven't got enough staff to be on the collection route all day on the collection day, contest this. Ask to speak to a more senior officer. Also, contact your councillors.
  If you still can't persuade them, offer to be on the route all day yourself (with a friend for safety). Then, when the collectors appear, discreetly phone the police and council on your mobile (giving them your location, the van's registration number, description and where you think it's going next). The police (and council) should be able to attend promptly.
  [Note: Make sure you don't put yourself in danger - for example, don't confront the collectors yourself.]
  If you have a Neighbourhood Watch (NHW) group locally, get them involved.

As the saying goes: "Don't spectate, participate" !

You can make a real difference by reporting a planned collection, well before it takes place.

If you persuade your council and police to take action, local charities will benefit. In the long term, a single prosecution can result in over £20,000 extra income for genuine charities.

Bogus collectors rely on apathy, delay and lack of action .

Usually they collect the filled bags only two days after delivering their leaflets. The collectors expect people to take a while to contact the regulators (the council, police etc) and they assume the regulators will be slow to react.
Prove them wrong !

To find out about GENUINE air ambulance charities, visit the website of the Association of Air Ambulances in the UK (the AAA) :

www.AirAmbulanceAssociation.co.uk

If you want to donate clothes (and other unwanted goods) to charity, take them to a CHARITY SHOP !
This will eliminate fraud, theft and poor-value fundraising.
- See the Charity Retail Association's website :

www.charityretail.org.uk

A dress given to a genuine house-to-house collector will raise only 5 pence for the charity (at £50 per tonne "royalty").
. . . But if you take the dress to a charity shop, it will raise over £2 net proceeds - that's 40 times more money.

URGENT APPEAL!

AIR AMBULANCE SUPPORT
HELP US TO KEEP THEM FLYING

AIR AMBULANCE SUPPORT IS A NON FOR PROFIT ORGANISATION
DEDICATED TO SUPPORTING AIR AMBULANCES ACROSS THE UK

AIR AMBULANCES ARE NOT FUNDED BY NHS OR GOVERNMENT
AND RELIES PURELY ON PUBLIC SUPPORT AND DONATIONS

TO CONTINUE LIFE SAVING OPERATIONS AIR AMBULANCES
ACROSS THE UK MUST RAISE BETWEEN £2m AND £6m A YEAR!
IF YOU WISH TO SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL AIR AMBULANCE:

We need clean, quality, re-usable baby, children & adult
CLOTHING and SHOES also, Handbags, Belts, Soft Toys,
Perfumes, Mobile Phones.
Blankets, Bed Linen, Curtain, Towels

£80 PER TONNE RAISED WILL BE GIVEN TO
YOUR LOCAL AIR AMBULANCE. WITH YOUR HELP AND
YOUR SUPPORT WE CAN KEEP THEM FLYING

PLEASE LEAVE THIS BAG ON
THE ROADSIDE FROM 8.00AM ON
FRIDAY

HELPLINE: 08454 755 951

WWW.AIRAMBULANCESUPPORTCIC.ORT
[ the line above should read: WWW.AIRAMBULANCESUPPORTCIC.ORG ]

INFO@AIRAMBULANCESUPPORTCIC.ORG

Air Ambulance Support is a registered Community Interest Company No.: 07308919
The collection is done by AIR AMBULANCE RECYCLING LTD: Company No. 7677566

Below - Interior of collection van with stolen clothes - seized by police in Cardiff (Wales) :

www.air-ambulance-scams.org.uk

www.air-ambulance-service-scam.org.uk

www.air-ambulance-support-scam.org.uk

www.airambulanceservice.org.uk


www.charitybags.org.uk

email us at :





www.house-to-house-collections-act-1939.org.uk

www.misleading-bogus-charity-clothing-collection-scam.org.uk