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Shelves in a thrift store in Indianapolis, Indiana A charity shop in Sheringham, UK. A charity shop (British English), thrift shop or thrift store (American English and Canadian English, also includes for-profit stores such as Savers) or opportunity shop or op-shop (Australian English and New Zealand English) is a retail establishment run by a charitable organization to raise money.
In 2000, the management of the Rochdale Pioneers Museum was transferred to the Co-operative College, and it became recognised as a registered museum in 2001. In 2010 it received a £1.3M Heritage Lottery Fund award, and re-opened in 2012 after a £2.3M revamp, which included an extension with additional rooms as well as restoration of the third ...
The charity's head office is based in Telford, Shropshire. In 1937, a branch of the PDSA was founded in District Six , South Africa , which at the time was a poverty-stricken area of Cape Town . In 1988, the organization became autonomous, but maintains a strong link with the mother society in the United Kingdom and a great deal of information ...
The Rochdale Pioneers was inspired by the 1944 film, Men of Rochdale which had marked the centenary of the first shop's opening and had been in turn based upon G.J. Holyoake's The History of Co-operation. [10] [11] The original shop at 31 Toad Lane in Rochdale in Lancashire, England opened on
A Down's Syndrome charity has said it can keep its cafe open after a successful fundraising drive. ... 'This is a different kind of charity shop' Charity needs 50,000 books for deprived readers ...
The Rochdale Pioneers are most famous for designing the Rochdale Principles, a set of principles of co-operation, which provide the foundation for the principles on which co-ops around the world operate to this day. The model the Rochdale Pioneers used is a focus of study within co-operative economics.
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