Intersecond: turning clothing donations into charity donations, unwanted textiles into the vital funding for charitable organisations

Intersecond is a young company with a strong business drive and sound business ethics.

Intersecond…

• organises bags collections to pick up used or unwanted clothes that can be sold to generate a regular and reliable source of funding for the charity organisations that we partner.
• was formed in February 2006 and is a UK registered company* based in Tilbury, Essex. Our company is a member of the London Chamber of Industry and Commerce, the corporate member of the Institute of Fundraising and a registered carrier and broker of controlled waste at Environment Agency**
• is the authorised charity bags distributor for Azzara, a cancer charity based and registered in Lithuania.
• is committed to the best practice in fundraising and textiles reuse.

Raising money for charity using second hand clothes

Our work with Azzara is currently focused on the Do not delay! Project, which aims to raise money to increase access to breast cancer screening in Lithuania. Lithuanian women have one of the highest rates of death from breast cancer in Europe and the Do Not Delay project is working to improve screening to catch the disease earlier. Diagnosis in the early stages of breast cancer means more women live longer.

As from June 2010, we are proud to fundraise through the door-to-door collections of unwanted clothing for Mercy Ships UK, a Stevenage based charity providing medical help and healthcare services to people in more than 50 developing countries throughout Africa, Central America and the Caribbean, and the Asia Pacific region. Ships crewed by doctors, nurses, water engineers and agriculturalists are visiting some of the world’s poorest countries providing their life-changing services free of charge.

Intersecond organises bags collections of clothing donations from around the UK. The clothing is then stored at our warehouse in Tilbury and sent out in lorry loads to Eastern Europe, where it is sold.

Our sponsored charities receive a guaranteed income without any hassle of organising and running door-to-door collections and without any risk or investment.

How we collect second hand clothes

Intersecond has a committed workforce to deliver charity bags and collect them once they have been filled with donations of clothes. UK-wide bag collections are in progress during most of the year.

“We are happy to accept any clothes, linen, curtains and shoes – in an OK condition. We do find that sometimes people put in unpaired shoes, broken toys or worn out clothes. Sorting and disposal takes time and resources – so we are grateful to the many people who put in good quality used clothes and look on our bag collections as a clothes recycling activity”.

Raimondas Biguzas, Director of Intersecond Ltd

Intersecond handles all aspects of collecting second hand clothes for charity organisations. This includes producing, designing and printing the charity bags. With the environment in mind, all our collection bags are now biodegradable.

*Registration number 05713257 **Registration number CB/VE5702XQ