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Racks of donated clothes at our Batley distribution hub

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Where your donation goes

At Oxfam we work hard to raise as much money as possible from every item you give us. Your unwanted items could be resold in our shops and online, or recycled via our partners or our very own sorting centre.

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Find your local Oxfam shop

Our trained volunteers and staff sort and price every item you donate to make as much money as possible. And even if an item doesn't sell in our shops, we can still make money from it, in one of the following ways.

Oxfam's Online Shop

Oxfam's Online Shop complements our long-established High Street business. It opens up our stock to a wider audience, giving many more buyers the chance to shop from the great range of good quality donations we receive. And because we list items at many of our high street shops we are able to sell more of our donations from the location where they are given to us.

Teams at around 165 of our shops, in addition to our 'hubs' in Batley and Milton Keynes, create the constantly-evolving selection of stock. 

Some of the top-selling categories include designer fashion, vintage clothing and accessories, collectable books and vinyl records.

Visit Oxfam's Online Shop

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Dedicated staff and volunteers prepare, photograph and list hundreds of different items onto the website every day, and once sold, package and ship those items to their new owners across the UK and around the world.

Clothing recycling

Our partners and Oxfam’s own operation in Batley, sort clothing to maximise revenue from textiles that cannot be resold in our shops and minimise the amount of textiles sent to landfill.

Every item can be used to make money for our poverty-busting work, including being sold on Oxfam's Online Shop, in our Oxfam Festival Shops, or selling them onto fashion designers who restyle garments and reuse fabrics.

Damaged or low grade items can be sold to recycling traders so they can, for instance, be turned into car soundproofing or mattress stuffing.

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Gift Aid your shop donations

Tag your bag to raise a life-changing 25% more when your donated items sell thanks to Gift Aid.

Fighting the clothes-to-landfill crisis

At Oxfam we work very hard to find a new use for every item of clothing you give, so that as little as possible goes to waste.

Donate items by post

The easy way to donate items for free from home. Pack and send or request a bag for free to help raise money to fight poverty and reduce landfill.