Give Away

Local organisations accepting donations

Charity shops – Too many to list individually but every high street has some.  We list those accepting electricals below

Richmond Foodbank – Local foodbank collecting food donations at various locations in Richmond.

Spear – Local homeless charity who may accept single bedding, kitchen items, male clothing, jeans, tops and shoes in good condition

The Vineyard – Local homeless charity who accept wide range of goods

The Bike Project – Charity refurbishing old bikes to give to refugees (Hampton drop-off point)

Vets (towels, cat/dog food) – Many vets will take towels and sometimes collect food etc for animal charities

Charity shops that take electricals

Geranium Charity shop

Sue Ryder Twickenham

Giving away furniture

Furniture (Richmond) – Twickenham based furniture recycling – will collect

Furniture  (St Margarets) – St Margarets based furniture recycling (including mattresses in fair condition) and appliances – will collect

Princes Alice Hospice – free furniture collections

Reuse Network – network of local reuse charities

Websites for giving things away

DropPoint – DropPoint helps you pass on your unused clutter to charitable organisations across the UK

Freecycle – Website allowing users in Richmond to offer or request things for free

Olio – Food sharing app – offer your leftover food to local users

Gumtree freebies – Large free classified ads site – for sale section includes freebies and it has huge reach – useful for hard to give away items

The Hygiene Bank – charity collecting unused toiletries, personal care and household cleaning  products with local drop off points in the Borough

Wrap up London – collects coats for the homeless every Autumn – local drop off points

Postage stamps – list of charities accepting used postage stamps.  Or link here for some more animal charities

The Restart Project – list of charities in London looking for used laptops and some other electricals

Trash nothing – site linking givers with those looking for used items

Freegle – another site linking givers with those looking for used items

Geev – app for giving away food, clothing, homewares, furniture and appliances

Thrift+ – makes donating used clothes to your choice of charity simple

Ferris – another app for giving away things for free – seems to have mostly furniture