Charity Super.Mkt Opens With A Bang In Former Topshop Space

Source: Image and Content from Traid. 

Last week Traid and Hemingway Design launched Charity Super.Mkt, bringing together for the first time, Britain's charity retailers and creating a physical department store in former Topshop space. 

Charity retail is the understated best of sustainable business, there is no better example of a green circular economy in action at this scale. This model provides everyone the opportunity to buy good and do good, from supporting the environmental benefits of shopping second-hand to providing critical funding for causes both local and global.

The Charity Super.Mkt is a concept for social and environmental good, where people can shop the best of charity retail all in one place. A mix of household names and local favourites, brought together as a purposeful collective.

The goal is to showcase what the future of retail could be —purposeful, sustainable and ethical, whilst providing the best experience and opportunities for its community. Charity Super.Mkt will aim for the highest standards of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance measurements), accessibility, diversity, inclusion and community benefit to become a dedicated destination for 21st century ethical living. 

Charity Super.Mkt is a solution bringing charity retail into the 21st century, giving a new, long term, worthwhile (not meanwhile) purpose, to vacant large-scale retail spaces in our towns and cities, which will demonstrate a sustainable way forward for retail and provide a new anchor for high streets.

Maria Chenoweth, CEO of Traid said:

"Charity Super.Mkt exists to make good business the new norm,  imagine walking into a store where you can buy something that makes you feel good whist your money spent does good—from funding issues such as homelessness to stopping cancer, organic cotton production to funding the nurses that give end of life care."