Scottish charities can save hundreds of pounds buying from a new "supermarket" which employs care-leavers, its founders claim.

The Community Warehouse in Paisley, launched last week by the Kibble education and care centre, will stock cut-price goods as well as providing training and employment opportunities for the centre's former pupils.

Customers have already included a community group buying disposable nappies to give away free to mums and Girl Guides who bought - among many other items - soap dispensers, to be nailed to trees during their annual summer camp.

Jim Mullan, Kibble's youth enterprise manager, said: "As well as giving charities, community groups and small businesses the chance to buy goods at a greatly reduced cost, there is also a great benefit to the environment.

"If we weren't passing on these goods they would end up in landfill sites around the country.

It's far better they are redistributed and recycled in an environmentally friendly way.

"It also gives the young men who have come through Kibble - who need every opportunity to enter the world of work - a chance to gain training and experience working in a warehouse and distribution."