How our charity shops sparkled in 2016-17

Here are 9 top facts about our 9 charity shops:

They contributed 15% of all the money we needed to raise last year. In 2017-18, we plan to increase that to a whopping 23%
Business is booming at our eBay charity shop: sales were up 34% on last year.
Across all our charity shop income, we were able to get £62,000 back from the taxman through Gift Aid – that’s 30% more than last year!
Our charity shops sold over 331,000 items, including furniture.
In the past year, we’ve prepared 3 new charity shops for opening – that’s a 50% increase on how many we had the previous year.
Our biggest store is our Huddersfield superstore, and the fastest-growing is on Victoria Street in Holmfirth (with sales up 35% on last year)
We sent 150 tons of ‘rags’ to international destinations, raising a massive £60,000 – up 37% on last year.
Our 30 recycling bins across West Yorkshire collected over 26 tonnes of recycling.
Volunteers contributed over 30,000 hours – that’s equivalent to15 full-time staff, who would otherwise have cost us £225,000. We’re also creating jobs, because almost a third of our paid charity-shop staff started out as volunteers!

Pop into our shops to pick up a bargain or drop off a donation – where areyour nearest stores? https://www.forgetmenotchild.co.uk/our-shops/store-locator
Please, always Gift Aid your donations if you’re a UK taxpayer! Just give your name and address to the store where you donate items to sell
Use our bright purple recycling bins to drop off items we can sell or recycle
Volunteer! We need store staff, drivers, eBay specialists and more

Remember we can do whole house clearances – and we can collect bulky donations like furniture.