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We are a community non-profit project covering East Kent, based in Whitstable.

We collect donations of clean, preloved or new clothes to then gift them to other members of our community who need them.

06/10/2026

🌟What a day! 🌟

THANK YOU for coming along and supporting our pop up fundraising sale and for being part of a lovely community event ❤️ We raised almost £1,400! 🥳 Humungous thanks to all those who donated beautiful clothes for us to sell, to all the volunteers involved in the many hours of prep and on the day! 👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️

✅ Raised £1,400
✅ held a community event that approximately 1,290 people attended
✅ around 86 of those people brought items for themselves and their families
✅ 164 items of clothing and shoes have gone to on to be reused and to be part of someone else’s wardrobe ♻️
✅ saved 46kgs of textiles from landfill ♻️ equivalent to the weight of a baby hippo 🦛!

The Garden Cafe Whitstable was open and offering a delightful array of delicious treats that were enjoyed in the beautiful autumn sunshine in the garden 😎 and the people of Whitstable came out to find a vintage and pre loved bargain in full force!

The money we raised will go towards covering our basic costs over winter, enabling us to continue supporting those who need our service and providing them with clean, high quality, useful clothing when they need it most. Huge thanks to the WUCC who’s support has enabled us to raise this much so that we in turn can support those in our community 🙏❤️

Love,
Magdalen, Katie and Emma
from Team CCB 💚

05/09/2026

Huge thanks to everyone to popped down to see us and to have a chat about what we do at Whitstable Tescos Community Day today! Big thanks to Sam, the Tesco Whitstable Community Champion who organised it 🙏 we also had a great time chatting to the other organisations there, all the “banks” were represented with us, The Hygiene Bank Canterbury and Food Bank Canterbury !

We really appreciated the gifts of new underwear, pjs etc from our shopping list too. Just dm us if you wanted us to send you a copy 🎁❤️

02/09/2026

We are back again!
This time for our big Autumn/ Winter fundraising extravaganza, with kind support from WUCC ! 🥳

Think coats 🧥 think Christmas jumpers 🧶 and all the sparkly ✨ clothes for those winter events … we will have all the designer Preloved and vintage clothes, shoes and accessories that you could possibly need for all ages and genders. All at really reasonable prices, 100% of what we raise goes on the costs of making sure that our vital service is free to all those who need the support ❤️

Please do pop the date in your calendar, come along, just to see us and have a chat ☕️🥐 if you aren’t needing anything. Oh and we’d really appreciate it if you could share our post or pop up a poster and generally spread the news 🙏 😘

13/07/2026

☀️What a day! ☀️

The weather was PERFECT in the garden (not go-hide-in-a-fridge hot and not raining) and our rails were heaving under the weight of so many excellent pieces for women, men and children ♻️

The was open and offering a delightful array of delicious treats, the was in full effect fixing and mending and the people of Whitstable came out to find a vintage and pre loved bargain in full force!

The money we raised will go towards our storage costs, enabling us to continue supporting the people of East Kent and providing them with clean, high quality, useful clothing when they need it most.

THANK YOU for coming! And if you bought a new additions to your summer wardrobe, tag us in your pics - we’d love to see how you’re styling your new pieces!

Team CCB 💚

20/06/2026

We’ve got an exciting date for your diaries 🥳 ... we are planning a mini summer popup, on Saturday 11th July, 9am – 2pm, in the gorgeous garden behind Whitstable Umbrella Community Centre. We are teaming up for this community event with the wonderful teams at Repair Cafe Whitstable , who will be running their monthly event inside between 10am - 1pm, and the Garden Cafe Whitstable Umbrella Community Centre

We are popping up in the garden with a lot of Vintage and Designer Preloved clothes and shoes. Women’s, Men’s and Childrenswear, in all the sizes and all at amazing low prices. The Garden Cafe will have the coffee machine on with cakes, ice cream on offer too. Why not arrange to meet a friend for a browse of our rails followed by a catch up over some cake and coffee in the garden? A perfect Saturday morning ☕️🌷🍩🍰🍨🍦🌿🍳🥐🌺🥪🥙🛍

We’re running this as a fundraising event for the Community Clothes Bank so 100% of what we sell at this pop up event goes towards the core costs of our project which is 100% volunteer led. We’ve curated the rails for items that are perfect for a seaside summer wardrobe for all shapes and sizes. So do pop along with your list of what your wardrobe is missing and grab a sustainable bargain for the summer, we’d love to see you! 💚♻️💚♻️💚

26/03/2026

We are declaring that our very first talk about CCB a big success!!! 🥳 Huge thanks to Jane and Soroptimist International Whitstable & District for inviting us along, we really enjoyed it. Thank you for the amazing donations and the support, we appreciate everyone of your members 🥰

06/01/2026

Happy New Year everyone! 🥳
We are back after a two week restorative break and hitting the ground running with 2 requests from partner organisations covering clothes and shoes for 12 people 💪🙌
Seeing as it the end of the year we’ve crunched the numbers for 2025! A huge thank you to all the volunteers, those who donate to us and to all of those who support us!❤️🙏🥰 We turn 5 at the end of January and we are busy putting together an Impact Report, we have lots of exciting plans to update you all on! 🥳

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https://www.communityclothesbank.org.uk/

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