A TAVISTOCK businesswoman has donated more than £7,500 to two charities from her successful charity sale of second-hand Mount Kelly College uniform in a pop up shop in her pub.

Abigail Underhill, owner of Tavistock Trout Fishery and The Trout and Tipple pub nearby, has been running her pop-up shop from the old games room of the pub on Parkwood Road one morning a week.

The mother of three set up the shop as a service to fellow parents after the second-hand unform shop at the school closed.

Inviting donations of uniform children had grown out of, she sold it on to other parents and she has raised £7,559.20 so far. She has split this two ways between the Children’s Hospice South West and the Primrose Foundation which runs the Primrose Breast Care Centre at Derriford, with representatives of the two charities visiting recently to collect their cheques.With two daughters still at Mount Kelly College and a son who has just left to go to university, Abigail set up the shop to help others because has been a regular user of the second-hand uniform shop at the school.

‘I was disappointed when it closed and I thought it was a shame there was nothing there for people who didn’t want to sell their uniform online.’ Abigail said she really wanted to thank all the parents who had donated hundreds and hundreds of pounds worth of uniform. She said it was ‘a wonderful total’ and she intended to go on running the second-hand shop and raising more money for charity. It is open every Wednesday in Mount Kelly College term times between 8-10am.