Remember that dress languishing at the back of your wardrobe? Or all those paperbacks you’ll never read again? Our shops rely on your donations*, so don’t throw away your unwanted items. We love to resell what you don’t want – and every penny goes towards vital hospice care in your community. Coronavirus has impacted on our shops so please check our latest information about shops before you visit.
*Please be thoughtful about the items that you are donating and avoid donating “unsellable” items. These items would be unclean or damaged items. Donating unsellable items will mean we will need to cover the costs of disposing of them.
As well as donating goods why not shop with us by popping in to one of our shops for quality preloved clothes, furniture, homeware, books and toys?
British Safety Specification
There are some things our furniture and electrical stores can’t sell for safety or legal reasons. If you’re not sure whether we can sell your donations, please take a look at our list here.
Fire labels
In order for us to be able to sell the items you donate, some of them have to meet certain safety standards. Below are some examples of fire safety labels for upholstered items.
Fire labels are permanent and will be sewn into or stapled to the item. Unfortunately, we cannot accept donations where the labels are not on each individual item. The fire label may be on any external surface of the item, including underneath removable seating and cushions.
Whatever you donate will make a difference. Sales from furniture, fashion and homeware donations raise over £1,000,000 each year, making our vital work in the community possible.
Just by shopping and donating with us, you’re helping the environment by reducing waste. Here are other ways donating your goods and shopping with us help protect the planet.
Like many charity shops, ours are recycling hubs for your community. We sort donated goods into stock that we can sell in our shops, and anything we can’t sell is passed on to other organisations that can use or recycle them, so we still make money from them. Charities like us reuse or recycle well over 320,000 tonnes of textiles each year (Association of Charity Shops).
Our eco-friendly greetings cards are printed on chlorine-free wood pulp from carefully managed, renewable forests, approved by the Forest Stewardship Council.
The reuse and recycling activity of UK charity shops helps reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 6.8m tonnes per annum (based on Greenhouse gas reporting – conversion factors 2016).
Every £1 raised from your gift-aided donations raises another 25p for the hospice at no extra cost to you. Please remember to Gift Aid your donations to our shops – find out how below.
If you are a UK tax payer, please fill out a Gift Aid declaration form when you donate goods to us. Gift Aid is a government scheme which allows registered charities in the UK to claim tax back from the Inland Revenue. If you fill in a declaration form, we can claim back 25p for every £1 your donation generates. It is very simple to do and doesn’t cost you anything, but makes a huge difference to us as a charity.
Your donations help us care for local patients and families.
Two sacks of donated, good quality, second-hand clothing will raise about £80 for Princess Alice Hospice, which will allow us to provide a home visit by a Princess Alice nurse. Every item you donate to one of our shops contributes to raising funds for the hospice. Thank you for your generosity.
