00:00 A pop-up charity shop launched in Media City on 2 November and is selling a curated pre-loved
00:06 fashion range for a limited time only. Charity Supermarket was set up to create
00:11 a space for people to shop sustainably and this pop-up location will be serving customers until
00:17 the 13th December at Quayside Shopping Centre. Four national and local charities have collaborated
00:23 for a multi-charity physical retail store, including Age UK, All Aboard, Havens Hospices
00:29 and St Vincent de Paul. Charity Supermarket has hosted six pop-ups across the UK in the last six
00:35 months, selling over 100,000 second-hand items and stopped 30,000 kilograms of clothing going
00:42 to landfill. After almost two weeks of sales at Quayside Media City, the pop-up has been a big hit
00:48 with shoppers. The first evening of sales generated just under £4,000 of revenue for the stores
00:54 participating charities. It's a charity shop but it's like no other charity shop you've ever seen
00:59 before in terms of number one the scale of it and number two it's designed to feel like the most
01:06 exciting fashion store that you've been in since you know like in the way that Top Shop in the 90s
01:11 was DJs playing, you didn't know where to look it was just this kind of sweet shop of fashion.
01:17 You don't need to have any feeling about oh I shouldn't be buying so much because every pound
01:20 you spend is a good pound. So the whole concept of Charity Supermarket is to get charities into
01:27 the spaces and locations that they wouldn't normally operate. We're part of the refresh
01:32 of this shopping centre in Salford at Quayside. Like a lot of places it's had troubles you know
01:38 like a lot of shopping centres had troubles but recently with Central Bay and Cargo opening
01:42 and now Seven Brothers opening their distillery there we've got three really exciting things
01:48 happening within that makes it younger and fresher. It's just that thrill of the chase that
01:52 you know you find things that you've never seen before and you're getting them at a price that
01:57 you know you're happy with and you're putting looks together that are not forced on you by
02:03 stylists from the fashion industry. Customers are encouraged to donate their pre-loved clothing as
02:09 well as buying second hand and if you look close enough there are some designer labels to be found
02:14 as well as vintage football tops. Within the first two weeks we've raised over £30,000 for charity
02:21 and sold over four and a half thousand items of clothes which is diverting from landfill and
02:29 really good for the environment. Currently on the planet there's enough clothes to
02:34 clothe the next six generations so there's so many which is mad it's beyond mad and still we're
02:42 producing more and when we make more clothes we're actually destroying the planet and the way the
02:47 fashion industry is it really isn't kind to people you know ultra-fast fashion is not kind full stop
02:53 equally under these like times of austerity charities have never been so much in demand.
03:00 It's good for society, it's good on the pocket and it's good on the environment.
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