The BASIC Life Charity

18/04/2026

VOLUNTEERS WANTED!!! If you have a few hours to spare why not volunteer at one of our Charity shops. We’re in Felixstowe, Walton and Woodbridge. Pop in and say hello to our happy team if you’d like to volunteer and help your local community 😀

14/04/2026

A fresh start at BASIC from Monday 20th with our new Felixstowe shop Manager Paul joining our team! New genuine bargains every day and a warm welcome to all our customers old and new. Our prices have remained the same for over 26 years now! So why pay more!!
Don’t forget to visit our other stores in Walton and Woodbridge!

19/12/2025

An article written by a Dutch journalist who visited recently for the national paper Trouw

Inside the Walton Shop on Felixstowe’s High Street, he gestures towards racks filled with coats, dresses and children’s shoes. Everything costs two pounds. Always two pounds. Since the year 2000, when he founded Basic Life Charity. “Paperback books are forty pence, hardbacks sixty. Clothes are...

03/12/2025

Enormous thanks to Felixstowe Lions for their very generous donation received this week :)

26/09/2025

30/08/2025

29/08/2025

https://www.peoplesfundraising.com/fundraising/evie-lake

Let's support Evie :)

Fundraiser - I’m aiming to raise £4,000 to cover my participation at the 2025 Deaflympics in Tokyo with Great Britain Deaf Football. This incredible opportunity to represent my country on the world stage comes with significant costs, which I need your help to meet. ...

03/08/2025

Hi - calling a kind techy person who would be kind enough to restore the phone line at our shop at 17 Hamilton Road.
We have a new hub and the hub itself and our connected card machine are working but we don't have a phone line. We've tried every combination of cables and are stuck.
If you can help please pop in and ask for Michael.
Thank you so much!