A PAIR of entrepreneurial brothers have embarked upon a “groundbreaking” partnership in a bid to boost the country’s charity shops.

Bob and Dave Chunilal, of Little Lever-based business Nisyst, have teamed up with Tony Hilton, a Manchester-based entrepreneur and founder and CEO of Charity Fleetcare and Gone for Good

The trio described their new partnership is an “exciting” venture, which they say will have “significant, positive implications for the charity retail sector in the UK”.

Together the partners will now collaborate on development of a unified technology platform to help reduce costs and increase revenues for charity retailers.

Dave Chunilal, Technical Director of Nisyst, commented: “We’re delighted to be partnering with Charity Fleetcare to deliver an end to end solution for charity retailers which will help streamline their operational processes when it comes to receiving donations remotely.

“It will also ensure that they do not lose out on valuable gift aid. This will be available on every single item donated, whether it is a piece of clothing or a large item of furniture and will make a huge difference to the amount of funding charities are able to receive.”

Nisyst was founded by the Chunilal brothers in the 1990s and specialises in supplying charity retail electronic point of sale (EPoS) software ­— which provides an electronic means for people to pay for goods and services.

Gone for Good is an app aimed to make giving to charity shops easier, and has received more than 50,000 downloads since its launch in 2014. Meanwhile, Charity Fleetcare further helps third sector organisations by helping reduce fuel costs, lower emissions, enhance driver safety and improve efficiencies.

Mr Hilton, said: “This new partnership is an exciting and much needed development. We hope to bring the sector up to the same standard of service that donors experience from commercial retail. For charities, it will make the donor journey much more efficient and environmentally friendly and ensure that income is maximised whilst costs are reduced. It will undoubtedly contribute to charities being able to deliver more for those much needed causes.”