Donating Items
You are welcome to bring items for donation to the warehouse if that is most convenient for you. If you would prefer us to collect the items, however, we usually have a waiting list of about four weeks. Our van undertakes between twenty and thirty collections each day five days a week so please be patient.
We rely on your continued support and kind donations to keep us going and always do our utmost to sell, recycle or otherwise get an income from everything you give us. However, it is not always possible for us to sell items so we then have to dispose of them. The costs of disposal are increasing all of the time and sometimes we are in the difficult position where your donation actually costs us money rather than helping to raise it! We therefore ask for your understanding if we refuse any items because we would have to pay to dispose of it. Thank you for understanding our predicament and please do not stop supporting us; we could not do all this without you!
We are happy to collect the following items:-
- Bric a Brac
- Books (We can take good condition paperbacks, good condition coffee table books, good condition hardbacks with covers, good condition childrens' books, historical first editions and annuals in good condition. We cannot take Mills & Boon type books, Reader's Digest composites, old book club books, books in poor condition or encyclopaedias).
- China
- Clothes
- Curtains
- Furniture
- Household Linen
- Records, CDs, Tapes
- Soft Furnishings (Beds, mattresses, sofas etc with a valid 1988 Fire Safety Label - examples of the labels can be found below)
- Toys (with a valid CE Safety Mark)
- Tools
- White goods (cookers, microwaves, washing machines, driers, fridges and freezers)
- Flat screen televisions
We CANNOT accept:
- Soft furnishings (beds, mattresses, sofas etc) without a 1988 Fire Safety Label
- Televisions (unless they are flat screen)
- Any form of computer equipment
- Any Baby items - However, these items may be of interest to the Little Bundles scheme which is a local volunteer led community project. Their contact details are email on or telephone 07905 716761. Their website, www.littlebundles.org.uk contains more information about their activities.
- Pianos or Electric Organs
- Fridges with defective seals
- Photocopiers
- Gas Bottles
- Tins containing paraffin, petrol or any other inflammables
- Old tins of paint
- Videos
- Electrical items other than white goods (at the moment while we handle our backlog)
To arrange a pick-up please telephone
you on the day if we encounter any last-minute problems. We offer pick-ups within an hour long slot on an agreed date in order to try and minimise any disruption to your normal routine and to make the most effective use of our van. We do not make a charge for our collection service.
Examples of Fire Labels:-
The above labels are appropriate to new furniture which meets the filling requirements and is cigarette resistant, that is baby nests. The word 'product' may be substituted for the word 'furniture' on the second side of this label.
Appropriate to new furniture which meets the filling requirements and is both cigarette and match resistant.
Appropriate to new furniture with a limited range of cover fabrics. The cover fabric is not match resistant, but the furniture has an interliner which passes the specified test. The furniture meets the filling requirements and is cigarette resistant.