Ideas for charity shops :

1. Use the contents of your free Action Pack to attract new volunteers to the shop on CSV Make a Difference Day.

2. Organise a fancy dress event and get volunteers to create and model costumes from shop stock. Display the finished costumes or parade them down the High Street!

3. Attract volunteers by transforming your shop into a Halloween Haunted House with spooky music, fancy dress and a Halloween window display. Invite the public to become style advisers for the day, and help customers choose their Halloween costume.

4. Recruit creative volunteers to select clothes and customise them for sale in the shop . Ask a tailor or department store stylists to teach altering, mending or window dressing skills.

5. Partner up with local schools or colleges and universities . Invite the students to come up with ideas to make-over your shop. This is a superb opportunity to attract younger volunteers. or Partner with a local business ; encourage a bit of competition by splitting the employee volunteers into teams to make over different parts of your retail business.

Stay in touch with us and we will keep you updated on more inspirational ideas and developments in CSV Make a Difference Day's campaign.

For more information email us on difference@csv.org.uk or call freephone 0800 284 533.