Brick Re-Use

Brick Re-use is our community-focused social enterprise built around repurposing and reselling donated second-hand items.

Through our charity shops and online store, we give pre-loved goods a new life while generating vital income to support the charity’s work.

Our goal is to strengthen financial sustainability within our community while increasing access to affordable, good-quality essentials. We provide people with choice and dignity by offering clothing, household goods, furniture, and bicycles that are reused, upcycled, and responsibly repurposed.

Brick Re-use is committed to tackling inequality across the borough by diverting high-quality second-hand items away from landfill and into homes where they are most needed. By doing so, we help raise living standards, reduce waste, and support wellbeing for individuals and families in our community.

Our charity shops are the hub of the community, operating from Gearing Up inside of The Brickworks in Wigan, The Brick Shop, Gidlow Lane in Wigan, and The Leigh Shop, Railway Road in Leigh.

Not just shops, they also provide vital welfare support. In partnership with Wigan council, we provide ‘welfare packages’, which can include sofa’s, dining tables and chairs, beds and much more! This helps the move into own accommodation, that much easier and makes a house much more like a home. However, we don’t just stop at furniture welfare, thanks to the regular donations of clothing we receive, we are able to provide clothing free of charge to those who are vulnerable in our community, this may include people who are rough sleeping, people who have fled domestic violence, or even people we are supporting to find work too.

With a growing number of unique stores, The Brick offers a variety of items at each of our retail sites including bicycles, furniture, electricals, clothing, homeware, children’s toys and nursery items.

It is only with the generous support of the local community that we can continue to run and expand our retail department within the borough, providing quality new and used items at affordable prices; not only this but we save thousands of items every year from ending up in landfill by accepting donations at the shop door or via our collection service.

The Brick prides itself on its position in the community and the shops are just one layer of what we do, however they provide much needed support to lots of different people, and provide a safe welcoming space for local people.