A RAFT of tin-rattling charity street collectors have been given the nod to operate in Worcester - with 10 different organisations hunting for help.

Worcester City Council has just rubber-stamped an updated plan for 2015 after a whole host of bodies applied to have helpers situated along busy streets.

Every year councillors allow no more than 35 different charities to be in Worcester on different days of the year, which each one normally having one or two tins at key locations.

The tin collectors are treated differently to the so-called 'chuggers', the controversial clipboard-holding workers who directly approach people in the streets and try to get them to sign up for direct debits.

The new plan, which was voted through by the city council's licensing committee this week, includes:

- Relay For Life Worcester, collecting on behalf of Cancer Research UK, will in Angel Place on Saturday, April 11 from 9am-5pm

- The British Red Cross will be in different city centre streets on Saturday, May 2 from 10am-6pm - Divine Magic, on behalf of the Worcestershire Animal Rescue Shelter, will be in the High Street on Saturday, May 9 from 2-4pm

- The Royal National Lifeboat Institution will be at various city locations on Friday, July 17 from 9am-4.30pm

- St Richard’s Hospice will get its turn on Saturday, July 26 from 9am-5pm in the High Street

- Worcester Samaritans will be in the High Street on Saturday, July 18 from 9am-5pm

- Animals Asia Foundation will visit on Saturday, August 8 from 9am-5pm

- RSPCA Worcester and Mid-Worcestershire will be in the city centre on either Saturday, September 5 or the following Saturday, from 9am-5pm

- The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal has secured permission to collect for two weeks, from Saturday October 24 to Saturday, November 7

- Rotary Club Worcester will be in the High Street on Friday, December 4 and the following day

The new deal was voted through after Leukaemia Care, which wanted to be in Worcester on the same day as the Animals Asia Foundation, was asked to find a different date.

Councillor Steve Mackay: "As I understand it, this is all about reducing the number of complaints councillors receive, so we'd be flouting our own rules if we allowed two to operate on the same day."

Councillor Paul Denham said: "I don't think two should be allowed on the same day, we should spread them evenly."

The rest of the plan was backed.