I have been visiting and donating to the three charity shops on this corner for many years now and…read moreoften buying a few bits and bobs and it's great to see people donating goods they no longer want or need for these shops to make money but I am afraid today will be the last I ever give or buy from the British heart foundation. It's always been a really cramped shop where you can never get around easily especially as I use a rollator to walk for balance but I often see mums with prams struggling round but it's suppose to be about the floor plan away that aside. Today as I got out to take the donation bag out the car a woman and young guy came out and opened the trade waste bin and proceeded to tip blankets, sheets curtains and pillow cases into it, I said oh my goodness wait I can give them to the Bethany care shelter or fresh start they are needed there is nothing wrong with them, no she said you can't have them they are going in the bin and poured oil over them I said what are you doing she said stopping people stealing out the buckets! I said but why don't you recycle them? We don't recycle, well give them to the homeless shelter, we don't donate! I have never been so angry lovely warm clean blankets nice fresh looking curtains and other bedding in the bin! If people realised that instead of making some money on the donated good or recycling them even or getting some money from the rag man who comes around d dry Friday that this charity shop was stuffing their buckets with them to go and make the landfill problem worse then surely they would think twice, I will never give them another thing or buy from them.

Shelter me be a good charity but their charity shops are the most disorganised and old fashioned…read morethat I've never seen. Clothing rails are so large and take up so much space that any more than six customers you would find it a struggle to manoeuvre around the shop. Notes Shelter is a charity for housing and the homeless in their charity shops they mostly sell clothing and a small selection of bric a brac, beware of any board games as the ones that I've bought in the past have been incomplete, games are sealed in store and there is no way of checking if they are complete. Shelter charity do other fundraising by cold calling, visiting your home uninvited and hound you in the streets constantly to sign up to a direct debit for £12 or more per month. I used to give quite regular to charity's and even had a few direct debit donations but due to several charity's cold calling by phone and harassing me in the street l find that l donate less due to this.

Lovely wee cosie shop, staff ate lovely and warm, make you feel welcome, always a bargain to be had…read morehere.

Shelter is one of the many charity shops in the Costorphine area of Edinburgh. It was one of a…read morenumber that I popped into a few days ago, which provided ample time to compare the facilities provided. In terms of what the shop stocks, it's fairly standard charity shop fare - clothes, loads of books, CDs from a couple of decades ago. There's always a bargain to be had - I found Gladiator on DVD for a price that was so low I can't recall it! Shelter do a valuable work with the homeless and in housing generally, so are definitely a worthwhile cause. Some of their stock looked nearly new, and so you don't need to be continually worried about quality. Hunt around, and you may find something you like!