MY wife and I are in the process of moving house, so while boxing up our belongings, we decided to donate some of our things to a charity shop.

We made sure it was all clean decent stuff, not broken or rubbish, packed it up carefully, and drove it to the rear entrance of the shop, there we were met by a lady who said that they didn’t take videos, pillows or bean bags. So we unloaded the other boxes of our donations into the shop, loaded the unwanted videos back into the van and threw the one bag with the pillows and the bean bag into the charity shop’s bin behind the shop.

I was promptly told that I would have to take the items back as the bin was not for public use, and it cost them a lot of money to hire it. Surely it is the charitable donations, such as the ones we had just made, that enables them to hire the bin and pay rent on the shop in the first place.

Perhaps it was just me, but this didn’t seem very charitable.

Matt Brogden, Kidlington