St Giles Hospice’s oldest charity shop has been given brand new look to celebrate its twenty-first year of fund-raising.

The make-over of the popular shop at 17 Tamworth Street, Lichfield will be unveiled on Monday 26th February and staff and volunteers look forward to welcoming customers through the doors.

Lynwen Truesdale, General Manager of St Giles Hospice Shops, said: “Our Lichfield shop is enormously popular and over the past two decades thousands of customers have enjoyed buying quality second-hand clothes, accessories, books and items for their homes, as well as using the shop’s fancy dress hire service.

“Like any shop, we need to move with the times and we hope our loyal customers – and those who haven’t shopped here before – will pop in and see how wonderful the re-fit looks and take time to browse the bargains we have to offer.”

Donations of items that can be sold are always welcome, and further information is available by contacting the shop on 01543 262996.

Items can be also be donated at any of the charity’s fourteen shops, based in major towns throughout the hospice's patient catchment area, which ranges from Ashby de la Zouch and Atherstone in the east, to Cannock and Walsall in the west – and from Burton and Uttoxeter in the north, to Sutton Coldfield and Coleshill in the south.

Last year the hospice shops raised more than £500,000 - and every penny is desperately needed by St Giles. The registered charity based in Whittington, between Lichfield and Tamworth spends over £5million caring for local people with cancer and other serious illnesses, as well as providing support for their families and carers, and relies heavily on the support of local people to enable its valuable work to continue.