A pop-up charity shop launched in MediaCity on November 2 and is selling a curated pre-loved fashion range for a limited time only.
Charity Super.Mkt was set up to create a a space for people to shop sustainably, and this pop-up location will be serving customers until December 13 at Quayside shopping centre.
Four National and local charities have collaborated for a multi-charity physical retail store, including Age UK, All Aboard, Havens Hospices and St Vincent de Paul.
Charity Super.Mkt has hosted six pop-ups accross the UK in the last six months, selling over 100,000 second hand items, and has stopped 30,000kg of clothes going to landfill.
After almost two weeks of sales at Quayside MediaCity, the pop-up has been a big hit with shoppers.
The first evening of sales generated just under £4,000 of revenue for the store's participating charities.
Charity Super.Mkt was set up to create a a space for people to shop sustainably, and this pop-up location will be serving customers until December 13 at Quayside shopping centre.
Four National and local charities have collaborated for a multi-charity physical retail store, including Age UK, All Aboard, Havens Hospices and St Vincent de Paul.
Charity Super.Mkt has hosted six pop-ups accross the UK in the last six months, selling over 100,000 second hand items, and has stopped 30,000kg of clothes going to landfill.
After almost two weeks of sales at Quayside MediaCity, the pop-up has been a big hit with shoppers.
The first evening of sales generated just under £4,000 of revenue for the store's participating charities.
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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.