"Scope, The charity shop with a difference"

A review of Scope by Randorr beck written on Wednesday 26th of January 2011

Scope (Leeds) is an amazing charity shop that packs a punch when it comes to style.

You can buy both donated and new goods ranging from jewellery, woman's wear and accessories, menswear and accessories, children's wear and toys to a nifty retro section on the second floor.

The media section is also something not to be missed and, to top it off is a new art section, also situated on the second floor that needs to be explored.

Plus if you want to sit a while, you can do that too on a sofa that is provided for your convenience. Customer service is certainly not on the back burner when it comes to this shop of interesting surprises

Fully recommend a visit and, as well as finding bargains galore, there's the papier mache sculptures too.

Sculpture 1 is an abstract papier mache life sized man wearing a hoodie of all things and, reading a book. What makes this sculpture so unique I feel, is its head. accompanying it is a papier mache table with table cloth and a working papier mache lamp. You have to see it to fully appreciate the creative talent.

Sculpture 2 , (a work in progress). Again made solely from papier mache and no inner frame depicts three men sitting on a bench. This sculpture is also abstract and, some say quite scary as the outer faces are missing, yet the closer one get's to the face the stranger the concept

As I've already written, you have to see them in person to appreciate the skill that's taken to create them.

They are situated on the second floor, which has undergone an impressive revamp and is unlike any charity shop I have ever come across.

One tiny niggle tho is that the ground floor could do with a little TLC

To end on a positive tho, who'd of thought that a charity shop in Leeds could be so forward thinking and trendy. Certainly ranks as a top of the shops in my book..

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