At the full council meeting last month I asked a question about the defunct ‘2Rs Community‘ clothes banks in Gloucester. The charity closed down in 2021.

If clothes banks are on private land then it is up to the landowners to remove them. I have provided a list of the banks I am aware of to the council and they are writing to the landowners and the administrator of the charity, if they can locate the information. We cannot just remove the bins as they may be a business asset.

In respect of the Podsmead bin in Burns Avenue, we have suggested in the meantime hanging a sign on the bin to say this clothes bank is no longer in use. There are other options in Podsmead and the local area to recycle clothes, such as the bank at The Club at Tuffley Park, or Kingsway Asda and Quedgeley Tesco clothes banks.