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Charity shops face hard trading conditions

Howard Lake

Howard Lake | 15 February 2001 | News

Oxfam saw its shops’ profits plunge from £16.5m in 1997-98 to £7.6m in 1999-2000. They aren’t the only charity facing tough trading conditions. Scope’s shops’ profits halved to £2.6m in 1999-2000.

Patrick McCurry examines how charity shops are working to reverse these drops in profit in Charity shops take steps to recover lost ground at SocietyGuardian.

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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.

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