Hi, I've just been on the Wildlife works website and I can't seem to find any details on how to buy the clothes, or where the store is - the links are not live!

Could you post details on where to buy these please?

Regards,

Erica, Newcastle upon tyne,

I worked at a London Oxfam in 2005 and wish everyone could see the other side of charity shops! We received huge bags of junk almost daily--dirty or torn or very used items. Oxfam has to pay to have that taken away--and we wasted so much time on the "weeding" that we could have spent helping customers upstairs or out front--please dont use charity shops as an easy way to get rid of just junk! Before you donate, ask yourself--would I or someone like me consider buying it?
Karen back in Kansas

Karen De Bres, Manhattan , USA

I'm confused: are they refusing these clothes on ethical grounds or because they cant resell them? I thought that anything deemed not saleable was given to the poor, does his no longer happen? Oxfam: its a bad policy . Public: beware the plastic bags that come thru your door asking for cothing donations, a lot of them are not for charity: they are sent to Eastern Europe to be sold for the collectors' profit. Make sure it has a registered charity number and not just a registered company number: theres a big difference.

AR, London, UK

Nice if you live in an upmarket area, but if you live like I do in Teesside, than all donations are greatfully received, what they dont sell as clothes they sell as on rags. Rags to Riches one might say eh!

Secondhand Rose, Teesside, UK

I have a wardrobe full of designer names which as far as I can tell are all original. They have ALL been bought from charity shops. They include clothes by YSL, Dior, Armani (8 shirts 1 pr jeans) Ralph Lauren and others. I''ve never paid more than £4.00 for a shirt. It all looks immaculate and I will only buy my shirts, jumpers and trousers (and books) at charity shops. All other clothes are new from TK Max.

Brad, Manchester, England

I'd like to see actual proof of how people in Kenya or elsewhere are being benefitted from these programmes. I don't believe it for a moment. Most of the profit goes towards paying the first class fares of admin staff going out to these places, and their hotel bills, pensions, salaries etc etc, etc. If not, then they are going into the pockets of the middlemen on site.
Show us the proof that all this ethical nonsense is doing good!
Point: I've stopped shopping at Oxfam because it is cheaper to shop on the high street than it is there. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Alice, Brighton,

No-one should be buying these ultra cheap goods from the Primarks of this world.
We should pause to think as to how it possible for this type of retailer to sell so cheaply (even if it is crap!) A little reflection would probably lead us to the coclusion that a ten years old indentured (slave) machinist in Bangladesh is sweating away for fifteen hours a day in hazardous and unhygenic working conditions.
But I guess the people who buy such goods are too stupid, selfish or greedy to even think about these issues, so the even more greedy and totally unethical clothing trade continues to reap the profits.

Norman saunders, Udine, Italy

Rather than be overtly snotty and risk alienating potential donators, would it not be more politic to accept the donations and weed out unsuitable stock backstage?

Ken Wyatt, Todmorden, UK