{"id":20997,"date":"2018-08-14T22:54:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T21:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20997"},"modified":"2018-08-14T22:54:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T21:54:39","slug":"costly-out-of-hours-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20997","title":{"rendered":"Costly Out of Hours Donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18081401.jpg\" alt=\"Out of Hours Donations\" \/><br \/>\nThe VWHDC (Vale of White Horse District Council) sent out this picture from May 2018 of two mattresses left outside the Sue Ryder charity shop. It was part of a press release warning against leaving donations out of hours at charity shops.<\/p>\n<p>The usual course of action would be to arrange for the mattresses to be taken to a registered waste and recycling centre so they could be disposed of legally.<\/p>\n<p>Initially the person who left the mattresses outside the shop was given a \u00a3240 fixed penalty notice with the option to pay in installments. That was not paid, and was followed by a court summons and the total bill with fines and costs went up to \u00a31300.<\/p>\n<p>Cllr Elaine Ware, Cabinet Member for Housing and Environment at VWHDC said: &#8220;<i>If you wish to donate items to charity you must check first that they are happy to accept them.&nbsp; If you simply dump goods next to a shop then you are fly-tipping and could face a fine or prosecution.&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18081402.jpg\" alt=\"Out of Hours Donations\" \/><br \/>\nEven more costly was a donation to Acacia UK in Abingdon that was set alight. The shop is still boarded up eleven months later.<\/p>\n<p>There is a planning application (dated 1st August 2018) for the shop to &#8216;<i>Strip out of modern materials following a fire to inspect historic materials and form\/agree repair plan.&#8217;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The VWHDC (Vale of White Horse District Council) sent out this picture from May 2018 of two mattresses left outside the Sue Ryder charity shop. It was part of a press release warning against leaving donations out of hours at charity shops. The usual course of action would be to arrange for the mattresses to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}