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Did you know that Oxfam opened the UK's first charity shop in 1948? ♻️ 17 Broad Street in Oxford was first opened as a space for people to donate clothes for refugees. When unsuitable items were donated, we decided that rather than wasting them, we could sell them to raise money for our work. And so, the UK's first charity shop was born. Over the next 33 years, Joe Mitty turned a single Oxfam shop into a nationwide network. Now, we have over 550 shops across the UK, powered by thousands of incre