Charity Super.Mkt

This week we opened our 13th Charity Super.Mkt in Westfield White City (a giant ex-Gap store) and 14th at Westgate Oxford, it is hard to believe that it is only 11 months since we were offered our first store in Brent Cross and we planned to be open for just 4 weeks and hope to cover costs by taking £20,000 (we stayed open 6 weeks and sold around £350,000 of charity secondhand fashion!) In those ten months, we have had large pop-up stores in Brent Cross, Glasgow, Reading and Bluewater and...

In January 2023, Charity Super.Mkt opened in Brent Cross Shopping Centre, North London for a planned 31 day stint, giving people the opportunity to shop the very best of charity retail, all under one roof, for the first time in the UK. Smashing our projected turnover for the month on day 4, the pop-up was nothing short of a huge success and we were even asked to stay in the shopping centre for an extra two weeks. From being the third most read article on the BBC website the weekend we...

Out running in late Nov 2023 I spotted a sign in Fenwick’s window “Vintage Sample Sale”, pausing the running watch I decided to have a look. It wasn’t vintage but there was a whole floor of samples/ ends of lines. This led to the thinking and imagining of Charity Super.Mkt on Bond Sreet, could we be the first ever charity store to retail on this iconic and immensely up-market street? When I got back to the HemingwayDesign studio I hopped onto good old LinkedIn, and reached out to the Fenwick...