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Petition update, 18 June 2008

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This petition is to highlight the continuing problem of clothes collection scams. There are many companies and organisations currently operating in the UK who either claim that they are charities or imply that they are in some way doing charitable work, but are in fact just money-making exercises with no benefit to anyone apart from themselves. It is bad enough that they are making money out of peoples goodwill but they are seriously damaging real charities doing similar kinds of collections. These organisations would claim to be 'help mates' in helping disadvantaged people, third-world countries, the unemployed, etc. where there there is little or no evidence at all to back up their claims. We would urge the government to either introduce new legislation, or vigorously enforce existing legislation, if appropriate, in eliminating these scams. We think it should be a legal requirement that anyone requesting donations to a supposed good cause should provide some evidence that they are indeed going where they say they are going, or be required to stop making such claims.

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• Gail Duggan
• Jonathan Dilks
• Barbara Clark
• Helen Charlesworth
• Elizabeth Mott
• NIgel Walsh
• John Ingamells
• nathalie blakeney
• Andrew Porrer
• Muhammad Raja
• rachel kendall
• Andrew Treharne
• Tony Cope
• Laura Jane Quick
• David Hall
• Raymond Guy
• mark woodward
• Ann Shuttleworth
• Antonio Acuna
• Mr. Garrie Radcliffe
• Stephen Baxter
• John Cunningham
• Angela Dolphin
• John Radford
• Deborah Heath
• Richard Southgate
• Malcolm Reeves
• Mike Walker
• Amanda partridge
• Janet Cook
• JONH ROGER MITCHELL
• Susan Stuart
• Sarah Templeman
• Miss Wood
• Linda Weston
• Jeffery Frampton
• Mauree Erdwin
• Jamie McCrae
• Shelagh Zachariades
• Albertina McNeill
• kirsty gilbert
• Anna Kostyrina
• Stephanie kilby
• Albert Ndagijimana
• Nichola Newton
• Victoria Gelderd
• Erika Collison
• TERRY JAMES
• Linda Gunnell
• Nicholas Thomson
• Benjamin Connell
• Robert Clark
• Katie Gardener
• sue christensen
• Adrian Bush
• Rosalind Haskins
• James Elliott Booth
• Jessica Dicker
• Tamsin
• Peter Knight
• Elizabeth Robins
• Francesca Stout
• Victoria Jones
• Sally Anne Price
• steve langhurst
• Michael Lomotey
• Jonathan Morley
• Anne Harvey
• Mei-Cho Cheng
• Lee Cockerton
• Michael Lynn
• Nigel Simmons
• Sue Beverley
• janet taylor
• Kathleen Lynn
• Matt Watts
• Sarah Fryer
• Angela Bell
• Joanne Kelly
• Linda Quick
• Heather Sinclair
• Andrew McCafferty
• Allan Perrin
• Brian Laycock
• karyn Faulkner
• Gemma Jennings
• A G G Avon
• paul martin
• David Melody
• Anungla Lavelle
• Michelle Gorsuch
• Kevin Michael Wilkinson
• Jeryl Willoughby
• Tony Duffin
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• Leslie Ferrar
• P Taylor
• lin baker
• John Gallagher
• june garland
• Patricia M Johnson
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• Georgia Kaufmann
• rodney smith
• GORDON MACINTOSH
• lisa austin
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• Susannah Clapp
• Michael Adkinson
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• Raymond Taylor
• Mary Kidd
• Mike Culley
• Rod Fortune
• Julie Austin
• Trevor Alexander
• Mervyn Pocock
• Keith Brook
• Stanley Baber
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• Carole Mason
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• Leanne L Langford
• Kim Spiller
• Ruth King
• David Keith Tattersall
• Pamela Lorimer
• M.Knight
• Stephen Wilson
• G Smith
• Fiona Rose
• Christine Bursnall
• Yuet Wan
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• Linnie Blake
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• Lynn Brown
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• gary morris
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• Virginia Saikovska
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• James Clark-Dick
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• Mark O'Rourke
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• PAULA TITLEY
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• Sandra Jackson
• C Richmond
• Gafin Morgan
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• Trevor Easey
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• sheila marrs
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• Ian Moore
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• CIARA MCATAMNEY
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• rees kelly
• Julie Simmons
• Vivienne Fifield
• Terence Marshall
• Philip Cronin
• Danielle Bealing
• S Charlesworth
• Brian Jackson
• Jill Clayton
• Thomas Sandford
• J D STEADMAN
• L J Smith
• Tony Douglas-Beveridge
• Mrs. Rosalind Douglas-Beveridge
• Elizabeth McDougall
• tracy-lee rogers
• Ewan Brown
• stephen morton
• Darren Frost
• Derek KERR
• Janet Peniston
• Sharon Gibbons
• Eric Mahendren
• michael price
• Peter Savage
• Mrs Carole Nuttall
• Mrs S Jeffery
• IAN HALLING
• Angela Lloyd
• Andrew Kay
• James Richard Cooke
• Patricia Reilly
• Heather Jones
• I M Bradford
• Matthew Bland
• Jason Walker
• Jolanta Narsutiene
• colin webb
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• george spilling
• barry worwood
• Helen Knibb
• Heather Byers
• Julie Jenson
• jim gorman
• Kathy Condon
• Gerald Louis Fitt
• Gilly Webster
• Keith Webster
• Duncan A. Smith
• Tracy Darley
• Elaine Chadfield
• Sarah Upsall
• beverley joy crankshaw
• Wendy Howell
• Elena Boardman
• Kevin Allingham
• Alice Hutson
• Anita Brooks
• Lesley Rogers
• Sharon Harrison
• Denise Smith
• Claire Lake
• Robert Findlay
• Sue Thompson
• Steve Burdock
• victoria boocock
• Sandra Jones
• Carine Morais
• Dennis A.Goddard
• Nigel Davey
• Leanne Leigh
• John Percy
• Nina Hutchinson
• Barry Gapes
• john HAMBROOK
• Dave Adkin
• rita barlow
• Sarah Wilkinson
• Mark Jackson
• Gill Lewis
• Jonathan Handley
• claire coventry
• Hannah Smith
• r a barlow
• Nadine Green
• Louise Watson
• Jason Walsh
• Amanda Knight
• stephanie woods
• Brian Gritton
• Ramesh Soni
• Avinash Rughani
• M J Petford
• Richard Newstead
• Alan Holmes
• Romain Chambard
• Naomi McMellon
• Wendy Lerwill
• E Alway
• Vivienne Maynard
• Richard Cooke
• NASER HAGHAMED
• Aziz Rajab-Ali
• azher ayub
• pete ward
• Patricia Clinton
• David James Balfour
• Donna McCormick
• Janet Reeve
• Karen Ng
• barb
• J PEALL
• John Dewsbury
• Catherine Todd
• Jessica L
• J M Pugh

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