When you donate to our shops, you're not just saving your pre-loved items from landfill, you're keeping our services running and our community suicide-safe.
If you're moving, downsizing, spring-cleaning or just having a tidy-up, we'd love to hear from you. Whether it's fashion, homewares, collectables and more… donating your new or quality pre-loved goods to our Lifeline shops contributes to a circular economy and allows us to channel profits into purpose.
How do I donate my items?
Clothing Donations
We gratefully accept:
You can drop clothing items that are clean and in good condition at our:
Clothing Bins
Donations are accepted 24/7. The clothing bins are emptied regularly, but if the clothing bin is full, please come back another time so donations don’t get weather-damaged.
Retail Shops
Donations can be accepted during opening hours.
Homewares, Art, Collectables, Toys, Jewellery, Manchester and more...
Retail Shops
Clean donations in good condition can be accepted during opening hours.
Whether it was a gift that just isn’t your style, a vintage necklace or a one-off art piece you can't find anywhere else - your high-quality items all have a story to tell and will be given a second life for the next person to love.
Please place donations in a small cardboard box or bag that is light enough for our volunteers to carry easily. Labels are helpful too.
We treat rare, antique or collectible items with great care, so please let us know if your donations are valuable.
Not sure if your item is something you can donate? Please call the shop to check the shop-specific accepted items.
Furniture Donations
Get in touch with your local Retail Shop
If you have furniture you would like to donate,
please contact your local Lifeline Shop directly.
Please send to the shops' email address:
- Photos of the furniture
- Short description
- Suburb (if pick-up required)
Alternatively, please call the shop to discuss the furniture on offer or pop in and chat with the team in-store!
Not sure what your nearest shop is?
Put your postcode into our site-finder, and it will let you know which of our Retail Shops is closest to your location.
What can I donate?
All donations in good condition are gratefully received
and help fund our crisis-support and suicide-prevention services.
Please place donations in a small cardboard box or bag that is light enough for our volunteers to carry easily. Labels are helpful.
We treat rare, antique or collectible items with great care, so please let us know if your donations are valuable. Thank you!
Donations we accept
If you have items in good condition you’d like to donate, we'd love to hear from you. We accept:
- Women’s, men’s and children’s clothing, footwear, jewellery and accessories
- Vintage and designer fashion
- Homewares including kitchenware, diningware and decorator items
- Decor and small furniture pieces
- Books, CDs, DVDs, vinyl records
- Computer games, gaming consoles in working condition
- Complete puzzles, games and toys
We also welcome rare, valuable, vintage or antique items, these unique pieces generate a lot of interest and raise significant amounts for our services and are particularly appreciated. We treat rare, antique or collectible items with great care, so please let us know if your donations are valuable.
Lifeline Harbour to Hawkesbury Sydney's shops are known for their excellent range and condition of goods on offer.
It wouldn't be possible without the generosity of our community, who ensure we have a steady stream of high-quality items available instore for our customers to enjoy.
By donating, and shopping, with us - we can make sure Lifeline is there when people need us most. Thank you!
What we don’t accept
We unfortunately can’t accept all donations.
Our customers love clean and excellent condition products, so if the items you are considering donating are not something you would purchase, please consider recycling or disposing of these products yourself.
We do not have the resources to:
- Wash stained or soiled items
- Repair damaged items
- Replace missing parts
- Recycle garments or rags
If items are stained, mouldy, torn, dirty, broken, or are in any other way damaged, please do not donate them.
We also don't take:
- Very low price/low quality goods
- Worn out/stained/damaged/incomplete items
- New or used underwear
- Used bedding; including pillows, doonas, mattress covers
- Mattresses and cots
- Items requiring safety standard checks; such as, mobility aids, baby equipment, bike helmets and electrical items
- White goods (ovens, dishwashers)
- Electrical equipment; such as toasters
- Computers and software
Our volunteers spend a lot of time processing the donations we receive, and it costs Lifeline money to dispose of goods that can't be re-sold, so please don’t donate anything you wouldn’t pass on to a friend or see at one of our shops.
Thank you for your understanding. We always appreciate offers of donations and your intention to support Lifeline Harbour to Hawkesbury Sydney.
Want to donate books?
Our book shops also accept
clean donations in good condition.
Learn more
If you have any questions about donating to our shops, please get in touch.