Chesterfield Salvation Army store

Derbyshire Times

Chesterfield Salvation Army store voted the best in the country

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00:00I'm Stuart Grove, I'm assistant manager at Chesterfield Donation Centre.

00:03We've just been voted number one centre for Donation Centre in Salvation Army.

00:10So that's voted for by the other donation centres.

00:13Yeah, we're just having a look round, show you some of the products.

00:18Tell us a bit about what you can pay, what different objects or different things you sell.

00:22Yeah, a variety of things that we sell.

00:24We've got a box, games, toys, bric-a-bric, lots of cups, craft.

00:31We have a closing section here.

00:33We have electrical, furniture.

00:37We also have lots of picture frames, mirrors.

00:41Wedding dresses are doing well at the moment, we've got lots of them.

00:44Yeah, sports equipment, jewellery over here.

00:48And yeah, some nice men's shirts this way.

00:53What does it feel to be voted?

00:55Yeah, it feels really good.

00:56It feels all the hard work that we've put into it, especially with the volunteers.

00:59It's been appreciated.

01:01We have put a lot of work into here.

01:02We have put a lot of work in.

01:05It's been coming up to five years in December that we've opened up.

01:09So for a shop to be open in just five years, to get to that point in Salvation Army,

01:15with the amount of shops that they have got, it's a great achievement for us.

01:20We've actually took over from Glasgow as being the number one on that level.

01:24But yeah, it's really, really proud.

01:27Especially with all the volunteers we've got.

01:29For us, size-wise, for the amount of donations we get through the door,

01:34which is amazing for Chesterfield as well.

01:36It's not just about the sense, it's about Chesterfield.

01:39The community in Chesterfield, they've opened up to us, realising better to recycle rather than throwing it away,

01:46donating it for us, helping us out.

01:49We help the community out as well because we're so inexpensive here.

01:53We're so cheap with what we sell because we want to get it out quick because we're getting a lot coming back in quick.

01:56So we also help the community out that way as well as what we get goes to the charity and goes to help the church.

02:02So yeah, it's a great achievement for Chesterfield as well.

02:06What's the secret of the success then how have you managed to do it?

02:08Have you managed to become so successful?

02:12Yeah, it's a good question.

02:13I mean, a lot of it's a bit of luck because where we're placed, you've got a lovely car park,

02:20you've got such advertisement on the main roundabouts people see you,

02:23but I do think the main one is just the Chesterfield people.

02:26That is the main thing, how they took us on and how they come.

02:29Word of mouth, it must have spread.

02:32The customers we get, some of them every day, every single day, the same ones keep coming back

02:37and the new ones, they always marvel and have a good word to say about it.

02:40They didn't know what variety of items we sold.

02:44So yeah, I do think a lot of it is the Chesterfield community.

02:48You've got a good set of people around here.

02:51They really are.

02:51I mean, I'm from Sheffield, so they're just community, but yeah, they are lovely people here.

02:56Derbyshire Times here at Chesterfield Salvation Army Donation Centre.

03:03Named the best in the country.

03:05And, you know, you can see why.

03:08There's so much, there's so much you can get in here.

03:11I mean, I actually haven't had a suit for ages because, you know, I'm just too tight to buy one.

03:19But this suit's cost me two quid and this faux silk shirt also just two pound.

03:26So yeah, I'm very happy with my purchases.

03:29Come down, check it out.

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