An Ealing charity shop is set to be transformed into a fashion hotspot this week as Fight for Sight launches a pop-up event aiming to stop thousands of brand-new garments from going to waste.
From today (21 August 2025), the charity’s refurbished Ealing Broadway store at 12 The Broadway, will offer 20,000 items of womenswear donated by a major online retailer. Prices will be capped at under £8 with tops at £3 and dresses at £5.
The initiative has a dual purpose: to divert 8 tonnes of unsold stock from landfill while raising vital funds for sight-saving research.
Brinda Rambaran, Fight for Sight’s stock donations manager, said: “It’s very exciting to have such an enormous donation of fabulous brand-new stock to offer to our Ealing customers. Fight for Sight is committed to sustainable fashion, so we are thrilled to have been able to rescue these clothes from landfill to sell in our Ealing shop. Every item we sell will help fund the brilliant minds and bright ideas, putting change in sight for everyone impacted by vision loss.”
At an average price of £5 per item, the stock could raise £100,000 for the charity. Recent grants include support for Professor Marcela Votruba, who is investigating treatments for a rare inherited condition that causes sudden vision loss in young men. Professor Votruba said: “We may be able to intervene at an earlier stage and save sight. The idea is to work on treatments that we could apply to either prolong sight or even reverse the vision loss.”
