Lessons from the month of June

• Take heed of terminology, consider using reuse instead of recycle

• Have plenty of helpers.

• Good quality control is required,people need to see charity shops looking like develop retail shops if they are to compete and change values. We need to show smart fashionable good quality uniforms to take away the hand me down image.Consider school fashion show of recycled clothes.

• Gain as much publicity as possible through word of mouth, community groups, school assemblies, church services and the media and keep it going.

for goods for resale...

• There is not a new idea here. This is new packaging and co-ordination and response to the huge potential of making Oxfam the natural link in the curriculum-"The schools charity".
• The schools curriculum requires them to link, to bring the outside in and Oxfam is the natural link due to its recycling , global and ethical work.