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Charity shop chains in the UK

The charities running shops in more than one town, and where each has branches. Useful when you know the charity whose shops you like and want the nearest one, or when you are deciding where a bag of books does the most good.

  1. British Heart Foundation

    London · Edinburgh · Birmingham · Bristol · Manchester · Portsmouth and 71 more

    244 shops
    77 towns
  2. Oxfam

    London · Belfast · Manchester · Birmingham · Bristol · Edinburgh and 62 more

    230 shops
    68 towns
  3. Cancer Research

    London · Edinburgh · Glasgow · Nottingham · Manchester · Stockport and 60 more

    189 shops
    66 towns
  4. Barnardo's

    London · Glasgow · Manchester · Liverpool · Birmingham · Newcastle Upon Tyne and 54 more

    187 shops
    60 towns
  5. Age UK

    London · Leicester · Manchester · Birmingham · Sheffield · Bournemouth and 40 more

    152 shops
    46 towns
  6. Salvation Army

    London · Birmingham · Edinburgh · Glasgow · Newcastle Upon Tyne · Bournemouth and 49 more

    115 shops
    55 towns
  7. Sue Ryder

    London · Portsmouth · Reading · Birmingham · Leeds · Manchester and 30 more

    96 shops
    36 towns
  8. RSPCA

    London · Leeds · Manchester · Coventry · Durham · Halifax and 33 more

    87 shops
    39 towns
  9. Mind

    London · Leeds · Leicester · Newcastle Upon Tyne · Birmingham · Bournemouth and 33 more

    86 shops
    39 towns
  10. British Red Cross

    London · Liverpool · Plymouth · Hull · Birmingham · Bournemouth and 36 more

    77 shops
    42 towns
  11. Shelter

    London · Edinburgh · Glasgow · Sheffield · Bolton · Bristol and 18 more

    64 shops
    24 towns
  12. PDSA

    Birmingham · Bournemouth · Aberdeen · Bristol · Edinburgh · Leeds and 23 more

    57 shops
    29 towns
  13. Marie Curie

    London · Newcastle Upon Tyne · Edinburgh · Glasgow · Birmingham · Cardiff and 21 more

    56 shops
    27 towns
  14. Scope

    London · Brighton · Leeds · Leicester · Portsmouth · Southampton and 21 more

    44 shops
    27 towns
  15. Emmaus

    London · Brighton · Bristol · Leeds · Preston · Southampton and 12 more

    27 shops
    18 towns

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