The Charity Retail Consultancy

🎄 Happy Christmas from all of us at CRC. Wishing you the best over this holiday season! At this year's holiday party we were joined by some wifi gremlins 👺, so enjoy some of our technical difficulties and bloopers at the end 😴 We all at the CRC will now be starting our much deserved Christmas breaks. We can't wait to share and enjoy 2025 with you all. See you on the 6th of January, and happy holidays! 🥳 #christmas #charityshop #charityretail #happyholidays #holidays2024 #2025

Santa visited the CRC early this year with our Secret Santa gift exchange on Monday! 🎁 Take a look at all of the wonderful pre-loved goods brought by Santa this year, all from charity shops 🎅 Happy Holidays to all our wonderful friends, clients and sector colleagues - we've loved working with you this year and can't wait for 2025 🥳 Wishing you all peace and happiness, Jayne, Vicki, Haris, Diane, Kat and all the CRC team 💖 #charityretail #charityshops #happyholidays #seasonsgreetings #secretsanta

Check out this wonderful short film from our friends at Highland Hospice Wick Shop ❤️ This holiday seasons embrace the gift of pre-loved goods, Donate to help you local charity and the whole community 🎁🤝 #charityshop #thrifting #Christmas #preloved #shopsecondhand #highlandhospice #scottishhighlands

🎁 Holiday competition time!! Would you like a free day of The Charity Retail Consultancy support?! 🌟 It's a tough time for many charities, and especially smaller ones and hospices, so if you work in a charity with fewer than 30 shops, like and share this post and you'll be entered into the hat (pre-loved of course) to win a free day of consultancy time! 🧑🏫 You could ask us to present or run a training session at a team meeting or staff conference, we could give you support with a particular challenge (volunteering, stock, logistics, whatever!), to carry out specialist mystery shop visits, or to have free access to a whole bunch of Charity Retail Learning courses! It's up to you! ⏲️ Competition ends on Friday 20th of December at 5pm 🎄 Wishing all our lovely charity clients and friends a happy and peaceful festive season.  P.S. We don't get together often, but here's a clip of our recent team building day, skiing in the Scottish mountains 👇😉 #charityretail #charityshops #competition #happyholidays #christmas2024

We’re really excited to be supporting the research programme - and to be delivering this webinar. Do come along - it should be a really interesting and valuable session #charityretail #charityshops #research

🎄Only 16 nights before Christmas! 🎄 🎅 Treat you shop and colleagues to an early Christmas gift with the CRL Subscription. Gain full access to our full suit of 40+ courses with more on the way! 👇 Check out our full course list below #charityretail #charityshop #thrift #onlinelearning

🎁 This holiday season, make your shopping count by diving into the world of charity retail and pre-loved treasures. With almost 25% of people turning to charity shops for their holidays gifts, many of the stigmas are finally being broken. Not only can finding unique gifts that tell a story, but you also contribute to a sustainable, eco-friendly lifestyle In this fantastic interview with BBC Radio Leeds, Jayne helps to debunk the myths about charity shops and highlight why we should all be Christmas shopping with the greenest retailers on the planet 💚 #thrifting #secondhand #charityshops #charityretail #bbcradio #preloved

We're proud and excited to be sponsoring the Charity Retail Association research programme in 2025. We all know that data and insights are vital when making commercial decisions, and the CRA provides its members with this essential resource. We're looking forward to sharing some of these insights with you over the coming year, and encourage as many of you as possible to take part in the various surveys issued throughout 2025 and beyond. The more participation there is, the more valuable the data, so we all win. Keep a look out for news of a free webinar in the new year to launch our partnership, where we'll share our learnings from CRA data and give our thoughts on sector trends. Thanks as always to the brilliant team at the CRA for this opportunity and for producing such a valuable member resource for the sector. If you're a CRA member, you can log in and access the research via the link. If you're not already a member then do sign up! It's affordable, valuable, and gives you access to a whole host of resources. #charityretail #charityshops #research #insights #collaboration https://lnkd.in/etDPdK_J

📓 We are excited to share with you our blog post from Billy Farrell at Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland: How Can Charity Shops Shine Against the Rise of Shein? 👜 All charity retailers have seen the impact of the rise of fast fashion on the sector, and the wider impact on our enviroment and communities. This fantastic blog post discusses how our friends at CHSS deal with this growing challenge to create a better sector for the future 📣 Check out our all new Audio Voiceover feature at the top of the blog! Simply press play and sit back and listen. Perfect for those with busy schedules who still want to experience the full blog and stay up to date #charityretail #charityshops #thrift #fastfashion #preloved #shein

‼️Last call for our Dealing with Customer Abuse & Shop Theft webinar‼️ The webinar will take place on Tuesday 19th of November from 10am to 11:30am held by our professional tutor Pete Thomas from Lodge Service Now is your last chance to book a place on the webinar for yourself or a colleague, equiping your team with all it needs to deal with customer abuse and the growing issue of shop theft Available for £45+VAT per head or FREE as part of our CRL Subscription Follow the link below 👇 for all the details and to book on, or contact us at help@thecharityretailconsultancy.co.uk to arrange an invoice We can't wait to see you there! #charityretail #charityshops #thrift #customerservice #shopsecurity #shoptheft https://lnkd.in/eFSx55J4