Mary, Queen of Bargains...

All Grazia readers will be familiar with the Charity Shop Mary 'Queen of Shops' Portas is opening in Westfield, London. Well the shop finally opened today, to what sounds like quite a manic crowd hungry for some bargains!! I have to admit as someone who really loves a good designer bargain, if I lived in London, I probably would of been at the top of that queue! As someone who regularly does wardrobe clean outs and donates to charity shops I love the idea of her Living and Giving store! I'm pretty sure I wasn't alone in being shocked when it published that 75% of charity shop donations end up in landfill, 75%!!! I think that figure is just shocking and I love the idea of swapping that they are promoting!! I have already heard of the £80 Mulberry bag ( jealous!!) being snatched, and I can't wait to hear of all the other bargains. It is running until June 27th. I am dying to get over there but am going to the South of France (poor me!!) on my hols slap bang in the middle of it! If I could get cheap flights though.........

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Bubblegum Club

The Bubblegum Club, a charity very close to my heart has just emailed me looking for volunteers to do a parachute jump to raise money for this brilliant charity! For those of you that don't know, the Bubblegum Club is a charity that looks after children with life-threatening illnesses, and gives them great opportunities in life that due to their illness they would not necessarily be given! It is such a brilliant and heart-warming charity that gives hope and belief to so many sick children.  It is a voluntary organisation of doctors and nurses who bring these ill children on tripos, day-outs and make their dreams come through, I can not say enough about it, it really is a great charity! The jumps are planned to take place on Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st June at Clonbullogue Airfield, Edenderry, Co.Offaly! For anyone interested in doing the parachute jump they are asked to contact Sharon on 01 2360456 or email her at sharon@bubblegumclub.ie! Or check out the charity's website at www.bubblegumclub.ie, for information on both this and other fundraising events!