# Victim Support to launch nationwide charity shop chain

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/03/02/victim-support-launch-nationwide-charity-shop-chain/
- Published: 2005-03-02T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Victim Support, the charity which helps people affected by crime, will this week
open the first in a nationwide chain of charity shops.
Victim Support’s first charity
shop will open in Horsham in West Sussex on 4 March 2005, the first in a 20-strong
network planned for the next five years.

Shop manager, Karen Buckland-Bailey said: “Horsham is just the start of something
much bigger. In the future, a chain of Victim Support shops will make a very significant
contribution to funding our services. And a bonus is that a high street presence
will remind people that we’re here in their town and ready to help them recover 
from their experiences of crime.”

Victim Support’s Head of Fundraising, Ken Madine, said: “Charity retail is doing
well at the moment and we think Horsham is an ideal place to start our project.”

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The Victim Support shops will be established in clusters of seven, staffed by two
managers and a team of around 30 volunteers.

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