BHF blogger challenge: step forward fashionistas!

This month we have been encouraging you all to join the nation for the Big Donation - the UK’s biggest ever stock appeal.

To help raise awareness of the Big Donation and promote recyclable fashion, we organised a ‘bloggers fashion challenge’. We approached popular fashion bloggers and asked them to go into their local BHF Shop with a small donation of their own, and then set them the task of picking out a whole outfit, styling it into a successful ensemble and blogging about it to the world!

Three high profile fashionistas stepped up to the challenge and hunted their way through our rails and each produced some amazing vintage chic outfits. Check out their fantastic outfits by clicking on the links below:

• Debbie Attwood (who visited the Tunbridge Wells Shop)
• Charlotte Tatam (Edinburgh Shop)
• Bethanie Lunn (Leeds Shop)

We now want to set all our supporters a challenge!

Do you think you can pick out a better outfit? If so upload a picture to our Flickr group or email us the photo and tell us which BHF shop you got the outfit from!

We can’t wait to see what you come up with! So get shopping…and don’t forget to recycle your fashion and donate your unwanted bits and bobs while you’re there, you can find your nearest BHF shop on our map.

Clear out your wardrobe to help beat heart disease

Did you know that one of the best – and easiest – ways you can help us is by donating your unwanted items to our shops?

The BHF has over 500 charity shops across the UK including our specialist books and music shops, and larger furniture and electrical stores. We urgently need good quality shoes, clothing, handbags, toys, bric-a-brac, DVDs, books and music.

Last year, our shops raised over £12.5 million to help beat heart disease. Donating your unwanted goods directly to our shops is a convenient, and cost-free, way for you to continue to support us, even in these tough financial times.

There are various ways you can donate your items:

• Pop into your local BHF Shop and drop off your unwanted items. Find your local shop or call 0844 412 5000.
• Use our book and clothing banks, located in supermarkets and car parks. Find your nearest collection point
• Door to door collections – we post you a plastic bag that you can fill and leave on your doorstep for collection on an appointed day.
• If you have larger items, such as furniture or electrical goods, please call 0844 412 5000.

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