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Textile Recycling in aid of the Fire Fighters Charity

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The textile recycling scheme for The Fire Fighters Charity has been a very successful fundraising initiative nationally, generating an income for the charity of over £17,000 on average per month.


Recognising fire stations as key community sites, this fundraising scheme gives local householders the choice to support their local firefighters by dropping their unwanted clothes in a textile bank on a fire station.

The Fire Fighters Charity now has over 300 fire stations across the UK providing a textile bank for public use and the income generated nationally through textile recycling for 2010/11 was over £205,000. The Charity helps sick or injured fire fighters through therapy, recuperation and beneficiary support services.

Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service has located a Fire Fighters Charity textile bank at Ledbury Fire Station in Bye Street and would welcome donations of clothes, underwear, linen, hand bags and pairs of shoes.

If you would like further details of the scheme, please contact the national coordinator Kevin Biles at kbiles@firefighterscharity.org.uk