{"id":512002,"date":"2026-04-04T05:40:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/512002\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T05:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:40:33","slug":"non-charity-clothes-banks-in-swindon-pop-up-without-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/512002\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-charity clothes banks in Swindon &#8216;pop up without consent&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jackson said he first spotted the &#8220;suspicious clothing and footwear recycling bins&#8221; alongside two Wiltshire and Bath Air Ambulance charity banks at the Haydon Centre in Haydon Wick, last Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They didn&#8217;t look right,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I spoke to the manager there and he said they&#8217;d just turned up and they had no permission to be there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since then, more than 20 similar banks have been spotted across Swindon and as far afield as Rodbourne, Stratton, Royal Wootton Bassett and Wroughton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re popping up everywhere &#8211; and we&#8217;re still getting messages coming in with more,&#8221; said Jackson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re not showing that they&#8217;re a charity [but] where the landowner has not given consent we&#8217;ve taped them up.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jackson said he first spotted the &#8220;suspicious clothing and footwear recycling bins&#8221; alongside two Wiltshire and Bath Air&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-512002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}