Lanchester Red Cross Shop

This is the page for the Lanchester branch of the British Red Cross charity shops.

Donations we can accept

All donations must be clean, useable and of saleable quality. If you wouldn’t buy it then we probably won’t be able to sell it! The better the quality of your items, the more money we can raise from their sale.

We are always looking for:
Unwanted gifts
Children’s clothing, toys and games
Men’s and women’s clothing and shoes
Books and multimedia like DVDs, CDs and vinyl
Accessories, non-pierced jewellery, belts, handbags
Bric a brac, crockery, glassware, bakeware, household linen and ornaments
Any old clothes or textiles that are no longer useable can still raise money by being sold to textile merchants.

Donations we can’t accept

We cannot sell anything that it would be unsafe for you to buy – anything that is broken, dangerous, unhygienic, where its safety cannot be proven or it would be illegal for us to sell. Please do not bring these items to us as we will have to incur costs for their disposal.

In particular, we can’t accept:
Medication, solvents, used dentures, jewellery for pierced body-parts
Mains or bottled gas appliances, microwaves, electric fires, petrol, oil or diesel-fuelled items, batteries, computer hard drives
Mains electrical items (apart from our designated furniture and electrical shops)
Food or drink, poisonous, toxic or hazardous substances, tobacco
Four-wheeled scooters, wheelchairs, bicycles, wheeled chair conveyances such as prams
items containing ivory, bone, turtle and tortoise-shell
Counterfeit or homemade films and music
Crash helmets, hard hats or protective headgear and clothes
Toys, nightwear or upholstered furniture items that don’t have the relevant safety labels
Used children’s shoes, repainted cots, walkers, safety gates, car seats or nursery furniture containing upholstery
Firearms, ammunition, weapons or realistic toy weapons, knives, blades or objects that could be used as weapons

Please contact us if you have any queries