Every Monday morning volunteers are coming to work and finding donations often raided and ruined as they have been left outside donation centres after hours.
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Clothing and other items were strewn all across the footpath at the St Vincent de Paul donation centre on Peter Street this morning.
Donors are being urged not to leave items outside centres outside of business hours or encouraged to drop them into Micah Hub in order to prevent donations from being thrown out.
Retail operations manager Mitch Saddler said it is a shame that the community's generosity is going to waste.
"Donations left out the front over the weekend when we're not open get raided and this leads them to becoming wet, unusable and then being discarded," Mr Saddler said.
"The donors are trying and we don't work without donations; the whole show stops.
"It's also not fair on volunteers to constantly have to clean this up."
Mr Saddler said this is a weekly occurrence and due to low volunteer numbers, donation centre hours cannot be extended.
"We'd like to urge people to donate during opening hours or we have a donation bin at Micah Hub that they can donate to after hours," he said.
"If there's anything left out the front it gets raided and picked through ... we've even come in to find items that have been soiled.
"We need donations and if anything, they're low at the moment."
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