First online charity shop launched by Oxfam

By Emma Rigby, Third Sector Online, 14 September 2007

Oxfam has launched what it claims is the UK's first dedicated online charity shop selling donated items. The website will support its 170 high street stores.

The site, www.oxfam.org.uk/shop, will sell 50,000 items donated to 16 high street shops and the charity wants it to raise £2m a year. By January 2008, a further 17 shops will come on board to offer a total of 120,000 items to internet shoppers. Oxfam hopes to tap into the...

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