CHARITIES could lose out on cash from clothes banks in Bromsgrove if a new plan goes ahead.

The banks are on 13 sites in the area and most of them are run for the benefit of Scope, Oxfam, the British Heart Foundation and Traid.

Now a company has offered to pay Bromsgrove District Council £60 per tonne for collected textiles if it can take over all the sites.

The proposal by Black Country Rag Ltd would net the council around £12,000 a year, according to a report to the executive cabinet meeting on Wednesday, May 8.

Four of the sites are currently run by a company called Wilcox, which pays £40 a tonne.

The other nine are run by the charities, who don't pay anything to the council.

The report says Traid are planning to take their banks away soon because of disappointing results and the BHF bank is on private land at Somerfield supermarket, so it would stay.

The council would have to remove the remaining six, two owned by Oxfam and four by Scope.

"While the proposal is financially attractive, charitable organisations would be deprived of valuable income," the report says.

Councillors were due to discuss the scheme last week but the item was deferred.