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We are living in unprecedented challenging economic times with most of the economic pressure coming from external sources. The cost pressures for everyone and especially

Charities should review their retail businesses every 5 years as best practice as the starting point for writing a retail strategy. This charity retail review

Charity Retail future Second-hand clothing insight With second-hand clothing as the key category within charity retail shops, more are now being sold online. Recently there

After the strains of 2020 and 2021 most people are looking forward hopefully to some normality in 2022 but the landscape will inevitably be quite

Is your charity retail business resilient enough for what’s approaching? In early-November, I spoke at the Hospice UK National Conference and was fortunate enough to

The glass ceiling is a metaphor for the invisible barrier that prevents some people from rising to a higher level. The term is most often

The Office for National Statistics has revealed that the number of job vacancies rose by 290,000 between May and July from the previous three-month period,

The Olympics might be over but there is another race that’s starting to seriously heat up. It’s official – when it comes to Charity Retail,

Economic downturns and uncertainty can be a time of considerable concern that make businesses batten down the hatches and wait for the storm to pass.