Oxfam has won the Association for Charity Shops' prize for the most valuable item donated to charity for the second year running, after its Lincoln branch received a share portfolio worth £22,635.
"This is a first, we think,” said Lekha Klouda, director of the Association. “It's marvellous that charity shops are now able to make good use of a much wider range of donations – some of which would have been impossible only a few years ago".
Other contenders for the prize included Save the Children, which received an Audi TT later sold at auction for £12,500, and St David’s Foundation, which was given a painting by Julian Trevelyan, which was auctioned for £8,000.
The prize will be awarded this week at the Association’s annual conference in Keele, Staffordshire.
