A charity has said they and other stores are "thriving" after a recent study named Nottingham among the top five thriftiest cities in the UK. The study showed there are currently a staggering 172 charity shops in Nottingham, the largest city in the top 10, and 41 regular car boot sales.
The research, conducted by selling site for-sale.co.uk, analysed 70 UK cities on the number of charity shops and regular car boot sales in and around each one. Those numbers were compared with each city’s population size to reveal a “thrift score” out of 20 based on the number of shops and sales per 100k of the population - Nottingham scored 11.754.
NotttinghamshireLive spoke with the British Heart Foundation, as well as regular charity shop-goers, to find out more about the demand for charity shops and how resourceful people in Nottingham really are with money. Sales assistant for the British Heart Foundation Furniture & Electrical store in Nottingham city centre, Rosemary Oliver, 58, said: "The store is doing pretty well. Have you heard that there are some stores in the city that have been closing down?
