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GoodGym Helps Restock TRAID Charity Shops!

18 / 10 / 21
Every year, Good Gym teams sprint out to TRAID charity shops, and help us to restock after the sale. This month, this amazing energy restocked TRAID Hammersmith and Shepherd's Bush in record time! Five goodgymers - Arba, Cookie, Beth, Ritsu and Leanne, met at TRAID Hammersmith and set to work removing clothes from hangers. It was Ritsu and Leanne's first…
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One Year On

31 / 03 / 21
TRAID's CEO Maria Chenoweth reflects on one year since the UK's first lockdown, closed charity shops and striving to fund our global partners and projects, when they need us most. Wow. If someone told me I would be managing TRAID for a year from my kitchen table during a pandemic lockdown, I would surely have thought them mad! Toilet roll queues…
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Welcoming back our customers

23 / 06 / 20
TRAID charity shops have been closed since March when we went into lockdown and so, it was with some delight that we greeted the recent announcement that non-essential shops - including our charity shops - could reopen. Nevertheless, the reality of emerging from this state of suspended animation is trickier and less certain than it was going in to lockdown.…
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