Closed stores have cost charities more than £28m a month, but once Covid restrictions are eased bosses hope for a spring boost
Charity shops are expecting a boom in business when they are allowed to reopen as lockdown restrictions ease, following the loss of millions of pounds of revenue since last March.
“We’re anticipating very strong trading when we open up,” Robin Osterley of the Charity Retail Association (CRA) told the Observer. The boom will be driven by two factors, he said: a surge in donations as people seek to offload unwanted Christmas gifts, and the impact of job losses and falling incomes, forcing people to cut household spending. “Unfortunately this group is likely to increase,” he said.
