Volunteer serving a customer in a shop
Volunteer serving a customer in a shop

Donating Goods

We welcome your generous donations of quality pre-loved items. Each sale supports our free hospice care throughout Gloucestershire.

To make a donation to our charity shops, please check individual shop opening times and days. We advise that you call ahead to check that your chosen shop can accept your kind donations before making the trip. You can find shop contact details here.

Warehouse donations

Our brand new warehouse is now open! You can find us at Unit D1, Kingfisher Business Park, London Road, Stroud, GL5 2BY. We welcome your kind donations to our warehouse donation station, open Monday – Saturday from 10am – 3pm. Our fabulous furniture shop is also open to the public Monday – Saturday from 10am – 4pm.

Furniture donations and purchases

We sell a range of fantastic furniture at the following Longfield Hospice shops, as well as our warehouse in Stroud:

  • Up Hatherley
  • Stroud

Have a look at our furniture donations page for more information.

What donations do we accept?

We need quality donated items all year round to enable our shops to have the best stock to sell, to generate vital revenue for our free hospice care.

We accept quality pre-loved women’s, men’s, and children’s clothing, books, bric-a-brac, games and puzzles, children’s toys, handbags, accessories, shoes, linen, electrical items (we PAT test all our electrical items), CDS, DVDs, vinyl and furniture.

There are some items we cannot accept for various reasons. These include:

Children’s toys without the ‘CE’ mark on them, soiled or dirty clothing, dirty bedding or linen, items of food or drink, including alcohol, beauty products such as body lotions or soaps, age-restricted items such as some knives, fireworks, cigarettes, and anything to do with gambling, real animal fur and fake designer items.

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