Sustainable Secret Santa
Written By Maisie Cartmell With the festive season nearly upon us, The Charity Shop Gift Card offers the perfect charitable and sustainable gift. As featured as the Editor’s Pick in You magazine, The Charity Shop Gift Card is the first multi-retailer gift card exclusively for charity shops. It offers the opportunity to give more […]
Pioneer scheme gives out Charity Shop Gift Cards at foodbanks
Written By Maisie Cartmell The Charity Shop Gift Card is a social enterprise that aims to provide councils and charities a way of offering welfare assistance to people experiencing financial hardship so they can shop for essentials in charity shops with dignity and autonomy. Feedback from recipients has been overwhelmingly positive and research from one foodbank in Birmingham […]
What’s so great about Charity Shopping anyway?
It goes without saying that the team at The Charity Shop Gift Card are advocates of buying preloved and think that The Charity Shop Gift Card would make a great Christmas present (but of course we would say that we’re biased!) Bethany Clark did some research to find out the word on the street when […]
Tips and Ideas for a more sustainable Halloween Costume
Halloween doesn’t exactly scream sustainability. From plastic wrapped sweets to discarded pumpkins, the spooky season has arguably become one of waste. But what if there was another way? Before you skip to a costume shop or, worse, *whispers* Amazon, consider charity shopping. Buying second-hand reduces your carbon footprint and is your vote for a circular […]