Recycle your clothes
Raise money by recycling your clothes
One easy way we can raise funds is by recycling clothes. When you use one of our clothes recycling banks, you’ll raise vital funds to ensure cancer patients receive their treatment closer to home, while doing your bit for the planet and sustainability. We receive £250 for every tonne of clothing that is donated to the banks.
Use the map below to find directions to the closest Hope for Tomorow clothing bank to you or view our list of clothing banks.
Raise money by recycling your clothes
One easy way we can raise funds is by recycling clothes. When you use one of our clothes recycling banks, you’ll raise vital funds to ensure cancer patients receive their treatment closer to home, while doing your bit for the planet and sustainability. We receive £250 for every tonne of clothing that is donated to the banks.
Use the map below to find directions to the closest Hope for Tomorow clothing bank to you or view our list of clothing banks.
Clothing bank locations
Use the map above to find your nearest clothing bank or click the button below for our list of locations:
What can I recycle?
- All types of clothing, from coats and jackets to nightwear, underwear and socks. They can be of any size, for adults or children.
- Shoes, boots, sandals, trainers and pumps, as long as they are in a pair.
- Various accessories like handbags, hats, scarves, gloves and belts.
- Household textiles, including bed linen, towels and light curtains
Please ensure that they are clean, dry and bagged.
What can’t be recycled?
- Any items that are soiled, oily or wet, this applies to all textiles including garments, footwear and textiles. These items can contaminate other acceptable donations in the clothes bank, meaning that less can be recycled.
- Branded uniforms or work wear
- Duvets & pillows (pillowcases and duvet covers are fine)
- Rugs & carpets
- Large theatre-style curtains
- Haberdashery, scraps of fabric or rolls of material
- Electrical goods
- Toys, books, DVDs, CDs, cassettes and games.
What happens to the clothes you recycle?
- take your unwanted, but good quality clothing, paired shoes and textiles to a Hope for Tomorrow clothes bank – they’re big and will be blue or green in colour, you can’t miss them! Please remember to bag your items before you take them to the clothing bank
- drivers will visit the bank regularly to collect the clothing donations, load them into their vehicles and return to the depot
- teams in the warehouse repackage the garments, ready for them to be distributed
- the packages of clothes are shipped to a global customer base where there is a demand for high-quality clothing items
- clothing packages are sorted at a factory, where sorters separate items according to the type of clothing and its quality
- every item that can be resold is sent to shops and markets all over the world. They go to destinations here in the UK and across Africa, Asia the Far East and Europe
We do everything we can to keep details of our clothing bank locations up to date but there’s a very small chance that there may be a change at short notice. You can confirm a location by calling Textile Recycling on 03330 154 088.
Alternatively, you can call the Hope for Tomorrow team on 01666 505055 or email us at info@hopefortomorrow.org.uk and we’d be happy to help with any questions you may have. You can also use these details to get in touch if you’re interested in hosting a clothes bank on your site
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