Background The predictions over the past few years have generally been accurate, however with the change of government in the UK, and the...

Charities should review their retail businesses every 5 years as best practice as the starting point for writing a retail strategy. This...

We are living in unprecedented challenging economic times with most of the economic pressure coming from external sources. The cost...

Charity Retail future Second-hand clothing insight With second-hand clothing as the key category within charity retail shops, more are...

After the strains of 2020 and 2021 most people are looking forward hopefully to some normality in 2022 but the landscape will inevitably...

Is your charity retail business resilient enough for what’s approaching? In early-November, I spoke at the Hospice UK National Conference...

The glass ceiling is a metaphor for the invisible barrier that prevents some people from rising to a higher level. The term is most often...

The Office for National Statistics has revealed that the number of job vacancies rose by 290,000 between May and July from the previous...

The Olympics might be over but there is another race that’s starting to seriously heat up. It’s official – when it comes to Charity...

Economic downturns and uncertainty can be a time of considerable concern that make businesses batten down the hatches and wait for the...

With the second lockdown now in place across England, it would be quite easy to focus on furloughing the team and then arranging to...

Seasonal change has always been a huge part of the retail calender. Fashion retailers have four seasonal changes a year coinciding with...

SPACE ‘The final frontier’ are the opening words on Star Trek, the famous science-fiction series. However, retail space is not science...

With the growth of online changing consumer shopping habits in the UK, and it was around 20% of retail sales prior to covid 19 it is...

Within retail like most industries history has taught us, or it should have after every financial shock or realignment you need to...

There is renewed hope in the UK that the rollout of a vaccination will bring about an end to the covid-19 lockdowns and that life will...