Donate items by post for free!

It’s easy to donate items to Oxfam, reduce landfill, and help support life-changing projects for people living in poverty. Here’s how:

Order your free donation bag now.

The better the quality, the more money you’ll help to raise

Adding in the leaflet with your Gift Aid details filled in

Print your return label at home or in a DPD store for free and find your local DPD point.

Relax knowing that you’ve decluttered AND you’re helping to beat poverty

We love clean, good quality donations by post - clothes, bags and accessories (including vintage and retro items, and even bras!). The better the quality of your item the more you will raise to help Oxfam fight poverty around the world.

Our customers love brands like:

M&S, Next, Monsoon, ASOS and Topshop, Levi’s, Zara, Joules, Boden, & Other Stories

If you know someone who would buy it then we’d love to receive it.

First, breathe. You are strong, you are fearless, you can do this.

Marie Condo, in The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying, says “the secret of success is to tidy in one shot, as quickly and completely as possible, and to start by discarding.”

She says to tidy by category, starting with clothing.

The next part is a bit scary, “place every item of clothing in the house on the floor.” And you probably know what’s next - anything that doesn’t ‘spark joy’ goes on the discard pile.

To help you out, she suggests thinking about clothes by season. If the temperature changed tomorrow, would you immediately want to reach for a particular item? If the answer is no, discard pile it is.

The good news is that what doesn’t ‘spark joy’ for you any longer may well ‘spark joy’ for someone else. Perhaps it will be easier to move the mountain with that in mind.

You will have more space, someone else may find something that will spark joy for them. And both of you will be raising funds to help beat poverty.

Great! Thank you. Once you’ve gathered the clothes and accessories you wish to donate, grab your Oxfam bag/s and pack your donations into it. Once you’ve filled your bag, go to our page at DPD. Then either:

• Print a label at home or
• if you don't have a printer, download a barcode and use it to get a label printed for free at your local DPD shop.

DPD have over 10,000 drop-off points across the UK open seven days a week making it an easy way to donate. Find your closest DPD drop off point.

You can raise a life-changing 25% more for Oxfam when you Gift Aid your donations.

The money your clothes and accessories raise, along with the money we collect from Gift Aid, could build water pumps, dig vegetable plots, send children to school and help families give themselves a better future. We’ll be in touch up to twice a year to let you know how much your donated items have raised towards fighting poverty.

Tag your bag. Raise more money. Change more lives.

Your donation will be sent to our online hub in Yorkshire where staff and volunteers look through 80 tonnes of donated clothing every week to find the best items to list on the Oxfam Online Shop.

Once your donation arrives it will be unpacked and quality checked. All saleable items will be steamed, photographed and listed online with all the profits going directly to Oxfam’s work to fight poverty around the world.

Anything unsuitable for sale will be recycled.

In 1974, Oxfam became the first national charity to develop its own clothes recycling and reusing facility that never sends clothes to landfill. Wastesaver now handles 12,000 tonnes of textiles every year.

And it isn’t just clothes that don’t sell that we recycle - the donation mailbags are made from 100% recycled plastic and we work with a local supplier to maintain a circular production process. This means that all used bags returned to us will be given back to the manufacturer to be recycled and used to produce new materials.

Every week, 13 million items of clothing end up in UK landfill. That adds up to a mountainous 336,000 tonnes of used clothing in landfill every year in the UK. By donating your clothes to Oxfam, instead of throwing them away, you’re helping to give them a second life.

And by shopping with Oxfam, you’re reinvesting your money into vital work around the world, supporting the poorest people on the planet to build sustainable livelihoods and beat poverty. Recently, our work has included helping vulnerable communities deal with the consequences of coronavirus around the world. Thank you for making this work possible.