St Vincent De Paul Society

“It was awesome experience at Vinnies, royal park and Samantha is really very cheerful and welcoming person. She personally give attention to every customers. I just have one suggestion, can you please change google location as it is showing next building in the map. Thanks and best wishes Amit”

“After boycotting Royal Park Vinnies for the last year due to a rude manager who would literally drive loyal customers away, rumour has there’s a new manager. And she’s amazing! Finally someone who genuinely cares about Royal park Vinnies and the wide variety of customers! First impressions- It was so nice to see a young female who is extremely friendly, helpful, up to date with fashion and quality at dirt cheap prices and there’s something there for everyone. If you have been boycotting Royal Park Vinnies and haven’t been in there recently do yourself a favour, go and check it out again. You won’t be disappointed. Go and introduce yourself to Samantha she’s exactly what this place needed.”

“Very tidy store with a great selection of items and always eager to spend money here and donate items however a number of occasions I have found the store closed earlier than the posted trading hours or trying to close early whilst people were in the store. I understand this a volunteer run store but myself and others I’m sure drive over specially and it’s a waste of time.”

“More than not, when dropping off goods, I've received less than appreciation & smiles from female staff in the outer area. Grumpy and quite rude. Yes they're probably volunteers, but so what? If you can't handle it or don't like it, get out!”

“Very aggressive store manager was lurking around as soon as she saw my car boot open with donations...leering at me... frowning before I'd even removed anything from the boot. I was attempting to donate some lovely brands ... compliant with store policy (no electrical etc)... however on my approach to the drop off area the manager yells at me " people think they are donating gold"...??? Extremely sarcastic...unpleasant experience. Delivering donations and getting abused for absolutely no reason is appalling. I took my donations back to the car..manager came after me and got in my face. Vinnies.... you need to think about the staff you have in a front facing public domain. They are a liability. Donations were happily accepted at the neighbouring charity.”