Charities

The Inverness shop looks for good quality donations of:

• Clothes for men, women and children
• Shoes
• Handbags
• Accessories (including ties, belts and jewellery)
• Books
• CDs and DVDs
• Children’s toys
• Furniture and electrical items

The Inverness shop can collect furniture and electrical items from the Easter Ross area and Inverness. Phone 0844 248 9128.

Garden Organic - the national charity for organic growing

The RNIB has various recycling schemes mobile phones, printer cartridges and used stamps.

Companies, schools and colleges

Companies, schools, colleges and other groups who have a large number of cartridges or mobile phones to recycle will receive a collection box (or boxes). This box will be delivered to you and collected when full free of charge. They can also arrange to send collection boxes to other departments in your organisation.

Please don't include toner bottles, ribbon cartridges and Epson inkjet cartridges as we are unable to recycle these. If we receive these in large volumes they may have to charge you for their safe disposal.

Recycling at home or in small organisations Read more

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. There is a shop based in Dingwall High Street.

They are always looking for:

• unwanted gifts
• children’s clothing, toys and games
• men’s and women’s clothing and shoes
• books, books on tape, DVDs, videos, 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.

Highland Hospice depends on the income from it's nine shops to help meet the high fundraising goals each week. Shops include one in Tain, Inverness and Alness.

Donations of high quality new or used clothing, bedding, bric-a-bric and non electric house hold items are always gratefully received. You can drop off such goods at your local shop, or at the Store, located at 8 Harbour Road, Inverness.

Charity pleased to receive stamps, clothing, mobile phones, toner cartridges

ReBOOT was the first computer recycling project in the North of Scotland , set up by Moray Voluntary Organisation (MVSO) in 1997. We are a charity, based in Forres, Moray, close to the A96.

Since 1997 they have been selling high quality, low-price refurbished computer systems to their customers' specifications.

Their environmentally friendly working procedures make it easy for businesses to comply with the new Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEEE) regulations, and provide a much needed IT recycling service in Moray and beyond.

You can donate items either to Warehouse at 9 Carsegate Road (open 9-4 Mon - Fri), at the shop on Laurel Avenue (open 10 -4 Mon - Fri). They also have containers at various recycling sites where items can also be stored. They take anything that can help make a house a home, from rugs, electrical items, paint and carpets to toys. If you are donating anything which has a material section then please check it has the relevant fire retardent labels. They also ask that items donated are in a good condition to be donated out for people and families to use.

They can collect from around Inverness and east Ross-shire

New Start Highland is a local charity which serves the Highlands through providing accessible support solutions for people to embark on a new beginning and delivering furniture re-use services. Read more

The CRNS is a membership body for community recycling organisations throughout Scotland. They provide information, advice and support to both existing and emerging community recyclers.

There is a local Oxfam Shop in Inverness (details below) and Jo Scott, at 5 Pulteney St (01854 612940) will transport small items, mobile phones and children’s clothes but not electrical items, to the Inverness shop. (Can leave in front porch)

The shop takes:

Good quality, clean clothing and shoes (including vintage and retro items)

Jewellery, bags and accessories

Books

Music (CDs, vinyl, DVDs, videos, musical instruments and sheet music)

Homewares: china, kitchenware, ornaments, pictures, collectables

Soft furnishings: small rugs, linen, curtains (must be clean and in good condition)

Toys and games

Furniture

Stamps and coins

...and anything else you think will raise money for Oxfam.

Oxfam do not take:

Electrical goods that run off the mains (a few shops do accept these, so please check before donating)

Medical equipment Read more