Oxfam Case Study

Sign up to Tag Your Bag and collect Nectar points

This form will sign you up to Oxfam's Tag Your Bag scheme. If you link your Nectar card below you'll automatically receive 100 Nectar points. When your goods sell in store you'll receive 2 points per £1 that you raise. Once signed up, your donated items will be worth 25% more to Oxfam when they sell in Oxfam shops. 

If you already have a Tag Your Bag account you can link your account to your Nectar card.

M&S and Oxfam Shwopping

Go shwopping and fight poverty with Oxfam and M&S.
Oxfam and M&S have teamed up to launch shwopping, a new idea that makes it even easier to give your unwanted clothes a second life. It will also help us raise an extra £2m to fight poverty over the next year alone.

Bring in your unwanted M&S clothes and receive £5 off a £35 spend on clothing, home and beauty products in M&S stores and online. 

Resold - In shops, online, at festivals or through overseas enterprises, like Frip Ethique.

Reused - Garments that can't be worn again are sold to designers who restyle them for use in new collections. 

Recycled - Clothes we can't resell or reuse are sold in bulk to reprocessing companies to be reborn as mattress filling or carpet underlay. 

Oxfam and M&S are perfect partners. M&S knows Oxfam makes the most of every donation. And here at Oxfam, we know M&S is committed to reducing the number of clothes that end up in landfill - plus they're big supporters of our work fighting poverty. 

However you choose to shwop - whether it's by bringing your unwanted M&S clothes to Oxfam or by dropping off your old clothes at M&S when you buy something new - it's an extremely convenient way to donate to Oxfam. 

We believe that shwopping could become the new shopping - and we're delighted to be working with M&S to make it so. We've set ourselves the ultimate goal of recycling as many clothes as M&S sells - hundreds of millions of clothes each year!

Oxfam uses several techniques to encourage people to donate their unwanted clothing. Firstly they have teamed up with the reward point company Nectar. This is used as an incentive for people to donate, giving them a reward for doing so. You can also see when you products were sold as this depends on when you get your Nectar points. Oxfam have also teamed up with sustainable conscious brand Marks and Spencers to create their swopping campaign. This means that every time you donate a piece of Marks and Spencers clothing to Oxfam you get a voucher for five pounds off you next thirty five pound or over purchase. This also gives people an incentive to donate. Oxfam also gives people rewards, however instead of it coming out of their profits they have teamed up with companies willing to help the good cause. This might be a possibility for Traid if they could find a company would be willing to back their cause, as giving people some motivation to donate could help increase their donations.