All items · Baby & children
Cot bumpers and sleep nests
Also covers: sleep pod, baby nest, pillow surround
They say no
Refused by all 7 charities that directly name or broadly cover it (6 direct, 1 broad).
Why shops refuse it
Safe-sleep guidance now advises against them entirely, so shops won't pass them on.
What to do instead
These shouldn't be reused at all — recycle the fabric at a textile bank.
Charity by charity
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Can't accept
Acorns Children's Hospice
Their wording
“Children's car seats or booster seats, cot mattresses and cot bumpers”
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Can't accept
Cancer Research UK
Also drop-side cots.
Their wording
“Cot bumpers/drop side cots”
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Can't accept
DEBRA
Their wording
“cot bumpers”
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Can't accept
Phyllis Tuckwell
broad category rule
No baby-related equipment accepted
Their wording
“Highchairs, pushchairs or baby-related equipment”
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Can't accept
St Giles Hospice
Their wording
“Bumpers”
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Can't accept
Sue Ryder
Their wording
“cot bumpers”
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Can't accept
Wales Air Ambulance
Their wording
“Cot bumpers, cot mattresses, pram mattresses”
Not mentioned in 37 charities' guidance
Absence from a charity's list doesn't mean they accept it — it just isn't singled out. Ask your local shop.
- Not mentioned Age UK
- Not mentioned Barnardo's
- Not mentioned British Heart Foundation
- Not mentioned British Red Cross
- Not mentioned Claire House Children's Hospice
- Not mentioned Cornwall Hospice Care
- Not mentioned Crisis
- Not mentioned Dogs Trust
- Not mentioned Dorothy House
- Not mentioned Emmaus
- Not mentioned FARA Charity Shops
- Not mentioned Great Western Air Ambulance Charity
- Not mentioned Keech Hospice Care
- Not mentioned LOROS Hospice
- Not mentioned Marie Curie
- Not mentioned Octavia Foundation
- Not mentioned Overgate Hospice
- Not mentioned Oxfam
- Not mentioned PDSA
- Not mentioned Princess Alice Hospice
- Not mentioned Salvation Army (SATCoL)
- Not mentioned Samaritans
- Not mentioned Save the Children
- Not mentioned Scope
- Not mentioned Sense Scotland
- Not mentioned Shaw Trust
- Not mentioned Shelter
- Not mentioned St Barnabas Hospice (Lincolnshire)
- Not mentioned St Christopher's Hospice
- Not mentioned St Peter's Hospice
- Not mentioned St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP)
- Not mentioned The Children's Trust
- Not mentioned Traid
- Not mentioned Trinity Hospice (Blackpool)
- Not mentioned Willen Hospice
- Not mentioned Woodgreen Pets Charity
- Not mentioned YMCA (England & Wales)