Retail advisor and Save the Children Ambassador Mary Portas is opening her first boutique-style charity shop in Edinburgh on Saturday 21 November – just in time for Christmas.
Thursday 19 November 2009
‘Mary’s Living and Giving Shop for Save the Children,’ located in fashionable Stockbridge, will sell a huge range of designer bargains and top-notch high street gear.
Mary overhauled our shop in Orpington, Kent as part of a three-part TV series, ‘Mary Queen of Charity Shops’. The programme culminated in a designer ‘pop-up charity shop’ in Westfield Shopping Centre in London, which raised a whopping £109,000 in just three weeks.
This will be Portas’ first permanent charity shop, with four more in the pipeline across the UK.
Some of the stock in the Stockbridge boutique has been donated by well-known faces such as Jamie Oliver, Peaches Geldof and Lauren Lavern. Grazia will be topping up the rails with designer goodies.