Long-time Sense supporter and Ipswich resident Nicky Slater, opened Sense’s new charity shop in 12 Meredith Road in Whitton, Ipswich on Thursday 25 March.
Nicky took time out time from his busy schedule to support his favourite charity ahead of Dancing On Ice's nail-biting final on Sunday 28 March - cutting the ribbon with his skate blade!
Nicky has supported Sense since 2006. He has met and skated with deafblind people at Sense events.
The new shop in Whitton, Ipswich is Sense’s second charity shop in the Ipswich area and our 77th shop in England
According to Christine Dennison, Regional Manager, “Sense’s charity shops have been rated as amongst the UK’s very best by Sunday Times Style. We’re often lucky enough to end up with some great pieces. It could be a vintage number or you could pick up this season’s must have item and help the work we do to support deafblind people in the process!”
If you’re strapped for cash you can go online at our eBay stores and buy antiques and clothes or buy them and many other exciting items at your local Sense shop.
Sense is also appealing for donations of books, music, clothes, electrical items, household ornaments and shoes. The charity is also looking to recruit volunteers who might have some spare time and would like to help out at this new shop. Contact Sense shops on 01322 554 999 or on our website for more details about this wide range of volunteer opportunities
More about Sense shops
Sense stores have been voted by the Sunday Times Style magazine as amongst the best charity shops in the UK (number 13).
The interesting items in our stock on 25 March were:
- original Beatles albums from the 1960s
- watercolour painting of a Sioux chief touching the clouds
- antiques and collectibles – such as an art deco clock, royal winton leaf plates
- books and music including Observer books which are highly collectible;
- an Elvis Presley clock
- Sir Walter Scott poetry edition
- a rare Four Winds Farm book from 1897
- range of furniture - walnut cocktail cabinet, furniture suites, pine dresser
- high street clothing – from great names like Monsoon, Next, M&S and Wallis
- labelled handbags such as Tommy and a Dents 1777.
