Robin Osterley

Many congrats to Essex & Herts Air Ambulance on the official opening of their new shop in Letchworth! Lovely to be there! @EHAAT_ @CharityRetail

Totally agree @wcvaruth - it was fab to meet sector colleagues In The Flesh! Big thanks to @edmayo1 @ROsterley and Claire Moody of @EquallyOurs for planning such a productive discussion on how together we can be more than the sum of our parts #CivilSocietyGroup

Another great @CharityRetail people management group meeting - with fine hybrid facilities as well. Thanks to Sarah Trivett from @salvationarmyuk for chairing.

Fantastic to report that after a gap of a few years the central retail operation of @age_uk has now rejoined @CharityRetail. It’s great to welcome them back into the family! #charityshops #charityretail

A fantastic scheme with the power to transform and boost charity retail’s profile in the UK – Read my blog: thecharityshopgiftcard.co.uk/robin-osterley… #charityshops #agiftcardforgood #sustainablegiving @CharityShopGC

Many congrats to Air Ambulance Service on their cracking new Superstore in Melton Mowbray! @WNDLRAirAmb @CharityRetail

@caitlinmoran thank you so much for the article! thetimes.co.uk/article/caitli…. If you'd like to know more have a look at @CharityRetail!

@RolandKarthaus @_AssemblyLine @londonsoc @vidhyaalakeson @chrishildrey Yep was good fun and very insightful from all

Pot noodle...but as a cake 👍 bit.ly/3cgK45I

@karlwilding Course we will. And we need you man.

We will not let up. We go again.

@karlwilding @NCVO Hey man you get some rest, and thanks so much for all you and your team are doing for us all.

Signing off for the evening. On behalf of all the staff & trustees at @NCVO, huge thanks to those of you who have carried on providing services, mobilised volunteers, given advice, helped, befriended, spoke up, cried & loved: thank you. Stay Safe. Stick Together. Stay at Home.

@karlwilding @RishiSunak Can't see anything wrong there... Sleep well... Sorry you can't go for a pint but hey ho...

So, I am incredibly tired. Brain isn't working quite right. But my sense of today's much welcome announcements from @RishiSunak I will say upfront that I may well have got some of this wrong. 1/

Amazingly powerful speech by @karenmleach at the #dbsconference. A hard-to-listen to reminder of why safeguarding is so important. Hopefully @CharityRetail can play its part with the CRSS scheme,

Lovely to visit the Bristol Community Hub run by @mariecurieuk, and great to meet Jacqui Woolley and her staff. I'm sure this is one of the ways forward for @CharityRetail.

Looking forward to representing @CharityRetail at the @ISWA_org roundtable in Rotterdam today. On the agenda - ethical textiles!

@homeprotect_uk how come nobody answers your telephone?

Dad has dementia. Sometimes he drifts into another world and I feel like I’m losing him. He is never more present, however, than when he plays the piano. He came to mine today and I asked him to play one of his compositions. He thought he wouldn’t be able to remember it.

Looking forward to the @SVP_Ireland conference in sunny Limerick today. Privileged to be speaking about @CharityRetail

We were out and about again today in Parliament, as our Head of Public Affairs @MattKelcher met with MP @AnnaMcMorrin. They discussed about the positive environmental impact of charity retail and the importance of Extended Producer Responsibility.

Great to hear Welsh finance minister @RebeccaEvansAM state that there are no intentions to alter business rate relief for @CharityRetail in Wales in her forthcoming reviews.