at the scouts and my brother was a member me and my mum used to help out at all the jumble sales. we were usually stuck selling the shoes as nobody else would do it. we ran it shoe shop style, with one on the table and one behind on the stage that i had to pair up as we sold them. jumble sales were really popular back in the day, but like you say it's always a nice surprise to see a sign for one these days.
we had regular mums who were always keen to run the clothing stall and they also ran a cancer research jumble sale where 