English retail adviser Mary Portas is launching her first charity shop in Edinburgh on the 21st November.  The store will stock a wide range of designer and high street clothes with proceeds going to charity Save the Children.Mary began working with Save the Children this year as she overhauled their shop in Orpington, Kent as a three part TV series ‘Mary Queen of Charity Shops’.  The programme culminated in a designer ‘pop-up charity shop’ in Westfield Shopping Centre in London, which raised £190,000 for the charity in three weeks.Mary Portas said, “This is a shop for everyone and we want it to be a place that will inspire Edinburgh to give.  The designer bargains in our charity shop will be fantastic and the store has potential to attract people from across the whole of Scotland.  We want to create a real buzz around second hand shopping and make old fashioned charity shops a thing of the past.  It may seem crazy to sell such quality goods at reasonable prices, but the money raised will be well spent as it costs as little as £5 to save a child’s life.”

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