REDDITCH independent retro record shop Vintage Trax will be celebrating its tenth anniversary with a charity event filled with music next Friday and Saturday, September 8 and 9.
The vinyl venture was started in 2013 with a pop-up shop in the Kingfisher Centre.
After trading in Headless Cross for six years, it relocated to Church Green East in August 2020.
The celebration days will feature special giveaways and offers, while also raising cash for Cavell, based in Grosvenor House.
Cavell supports UK nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants, working and retired who are suffering personal or financial hardship due to illness, disability, older age, domestic abuse and the ongoing cost-of-living crisis.
The six-hour celebration will start at 10am each day with light refreshments and cake available.
Owner Ros Sidaway said: “I wanted to do something to benefit a locally-based charity, as well as celebrate ten years of trading in Redditch.
“When we first opened, Redditch did not have a record shop in the town or wider district. But it was when I was at the tip one day and saw someone throw away boxes and boxes of vinyl albums that I decided to dip my toe in the water.
“Recycling and reusing vinyl records, cassette tapes and CDs and keeping the music alive is at the heart of Vintage Trax.
“It’s not been an easy time since the pandemic with rising costs and increased competition from record fairs and online sellers but we are holding our own.”
