Donations to shops

Donating good quality items to be sold in our Acorns shops is an easy way you can help to support our vital work with local children and young people who are life limited or life threatened.

We need more stock in our shops to keep up with demand as more and more people are turning to charity shops to help them through the current difficult economic climate. We want to make the most of the extra customers to raise extra income to support our three hospices.

We welcome donations of the following at all our shops:

  • Children's clothes from 0yrs to 15yrs
  • Children's toys, games, books and media
  • Children's nursery equipment
  • Ladies clothes, handbags, shoes and accessories
  • Men's clothing, shoes and accessories
  • Household items - such as bric-a-brac, small electrical items, china and pottery, linen, curtains and blankets
  • Books and media - including CDs and DVDs.

We also recycle used computer ink/toner cartridges and mobile phones.

We can also take your old worn and torn items! Although we are always grateful for donations of good quality items to sell in our shops, we can also raise money from goods which are not in a saleable condition.  Working with 'rag' merchants, we can still raise vital funds for Acorns by selling these items on as 'rag'. So by donating your worn and torn items to us, you can help Acorns to raise more funds whilst ensuring your textiles are recycled and not sent to landfill sites.  If you are able to, it would help our volunteers enormously with sorting out donated items if you could bag up and mark these items as 'rags' by attaching a note to the bag. The types of items we can accept as 'rag' are:

  • Frayed, ripped, faded clothes, household linen, curtains and other textiles such as towels and blankets
  • Belts with broken or missing buckles
  • Broken handbags
  • Worn or broken shoes.

Please take your donations to your local Acorns shop between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Saturday. You can find your nearest Acorns shop by using our Acorns shop locator.

We also have a team of house-to-house stock collectors working in certain areas collecting bags which have been supplied to local households through their letterbox to fill with items.  These bags can be filled with goods to be sold in our shops and left for collection at the roadside.  Find out more about our house-to-house bag collections here and how you can help to ensure your items are being collected by a genuine Acorns collector.

If you have any questions about donating items to our shops please contact the Retail Team at Acorns on 01564 825027 or email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. who will be happy to answer any queries you may have.