Save The Children Shop

In 2009 The Save the Children charity celebrates its 90th anniversary. Save the Children work tirelessly to demand justice for the World`s poorest and most vulnerable children. The charity wants to see dramatic changes and are constantly on the look out for new ways of helping the millions of children that are denied food, education, protection and health care. Their vision is admirable, they look forward to a world that respects and values children, which listens and learns and where every child has hope and opportunity. Save the Children are currently working in 52 countries around the world, running long term projects and responding to ...  Read the complete review

Surely one of the best institutions of UK are Charity Shops. They are a win win situation. They help raise funds for those who need them, they help find bargains those who also need or want bargains. I visited the Save the Children shop in Clapham, the full address is 36 High Street Clapham London SW4 7UR It was a Saturday morning and the shop was quite full of people, mainly young mothers or senior people. The shop is clean and there were few volunteers around. They have clothes on display, but also games, books and cds and music cassettes. I checked their clothes and found a nice T Shirt ...  Read the complete review

I'm a big fan of charity shops, and lucky for me my high street is full of them. I regularly pop into the Save The Children, in my hunt for bargains. Obviously some times there is nothing to be had and yet other times you will see an absolute bargain. I mainly look out for ornaments especially brass, I've picked up loads of beautiful pieces of brass over the years. They are the type of things you would never see in the shops. I also get books for my daughter as she is a big book fan, she has been delighted with some of the stuff I pick up, charity shops seem to be especially good for old education books. In addition I've ...  Read the complete review

Ten year old Eder lives in a slum area of Peru where, thanks to the child sponsorship scheme run by CCF, the following improvements have been made- a doctor's surgery has been built, there is a daily food supplement for malnourished children, income generation activities have been developed, parents are being trained in child-care, a garbage collection system has been introduced and a small pre-school has been set up. Eder's father suffers from TB, his mother makes sweaters and his big brother works on the buses. Eder's daily food consists of vegetables and dried seeds. Eder wants to become a doctor. Sponsorship of Eder means (1) a little help for ...  Read the complete review

I'm a big fan of charity shops. This I don't believe is much good to younger generations. It seems to be filled with old womens clothes and dodgy ornaments. I don't know what they do with the half decent stuff that has been donated. .I also believe that they are over priced compared to other charity shops.Their books seem to be very expensive It might be worth a look if your bringing your Granny with you but otherwise I would try the others first. ...  Read the complete review