Charity shops that will take furniture

Lethagized · 4 Aug 2009 at 12:01

I've got 3 old fashioned singer sowing machines that i wanna shift. I've tried selling them on ebay but no one is interested. Doe's anyone know of a charity that will collect furniture and send them off to third world countries for better use or sell them on?

Dolph · 4 Aug 2009 at 12:01

Try the usual suspects (red cross etc), failing that, freecycle them.

Cosimo · 4 Aug 2009 at 12:06

Take a look here:

http://www.charityshops.org.uk/locator.php

bad_ass_neil · 4 Aug 2009 at 12:25

bernardos took ours, a couple of lads in a van turned up a few days after we phoned up and picked it up.

Zogger · 4 Aug 2009 at 13:10

My uncle collects old non-electric sewing machines and sends them off to third world countries, but I have no idea how...

Lethagized · 7 Oct 2009 at 02:12

Zogger said:
My uncle collects old non-electric sewing machines and sends them off to third world countries, but I have no idea how...

Would he be interested in collecting these 3 then? They are pedal powered and quite heavy

djohn · 7 Oct 2009 at 02:23

Sally Army is always looking for serviceable furniture of all types to help out unfortunate people. Only condition I can think of is that it must still have 'fire proof label' still attached.

BloodyL · 7 Oct 2009 at 03:05

The British Heart Foundation will collect large items from your home.
http://www.bhf.org.uk/shop_with_bhf/our_shops/donating_goods.aspx

converse_uprise · 7 Oct 2009 at 06:11

Is the sewing machine part of the furniture? If like the singer sewing machine that I saw today in a very expensive clothes shop, then you might be able to flog them for half decent money to vintage shops of fashionable boutiques.

I'd take one off your hands if I lived close! I'm looking at getting one and restoring it after seeing the one I saw today.

Lethagized · 8 Oct 2009 at 13:17

Yes, these could be classed as furniture. They would make a nice table actually. It's a pitty you couldn't collect one.

Thanks for the replies people. I've got in contact with The tools for self reliance charity who are collecting them next week and sending them to africa which is just what i wanted. They are only taking 2 of them though because the other one i have uses obsolete parts.

platypus · 8 Oct 2009 at 13:18

The Salvation Army often have a truck driving around to pick things up.