# Windfall in Gone with the Wind

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2002/08/28/windfall-gone-wind/
- Published: 2002-08-28T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Do your charity shop volunteers and staff flick through the pages of donated books?

They might start to, following the lucky windfall enjoyed by the Arthritis Research
Campaign shop in Bolsover, Derbyshire. A volunteer picked up a copy of Gone With
The Wind which had been sitting on the shelves for six weeks, and out fell £500 
in new notes.

If the book had been bought before the discovery, it would have sold for just £1.50.

Read “Gone with the windfall at charity shop” at BBC News.

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