All items · Electrical
Gas appliances
Also covers: gas cooker, gas heater, gas fire, gas hob, gas barbecue
Why shops refuse it
Gas appliances need specialist installation and safety checks that ordinary charity shops are not equipped to provide.
What to do instead
A Gas Safe engineer can decommission one; councils accept them at recycling centres.
Charity by charity
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Can't accept
British Heart Foundation
Their wording
“Gas appliances”
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Can't accept
British Red Cross
Includes cookers, fires, lighters and hair-styling tools.
Their wording
“Mains or bottled gas appliances”
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Can't accept
Cancer Research UK
Their wording
“Gas appliances, cylinders, oil-filled radiators”
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Can't accept
Claire House Children's Hospice
broad category rule
Blanket exclusion of electrical items, though brand-new factory-sealed hard drives, SD cards or USB sticks are excepted.
Their wording
“Electrical items”
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Can't accept
Cornwall Hospice Care
Includes gas cookers, gas heaters, paraffin/gas stoves, and gas Agas
Their wording
“Gas appliances – either mains or bottled”
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Can't accept
DEBRA
Their wording
“Gas appliances”
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Can't accept
Dogs Trust
Also excludes heaters generally (not specified as gas-only).
Their wording
“gas appliances, heaters”
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Can't accept
Dorothy House
Includes gas cookers, patio heaters, and oil/gas Agas
Their wording
“Gas appliances – mains or bottled”
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Can't accept
Emmaus
Their wording
“Flammables, gas cylinders, paints and gas appliances”
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Can't accept
LOROS Hospice
Gas fires not accepted
Their wording
“gas fires”
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Can't accept
Octavia Foundation
Their wording
“Any gas appliance”
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Can't accept
Phyllis Tuckwell
broad category rule
No electrical items of any kind currently accepted
Their wording
“Unfortunately we are currently unable to accept any electrical items or suitcases.”
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Can't accept
Princess Alice Hospice
Includes gas cookers and oil/gas Agas, mains or bottled
Their wording
“Gas appliances are not accepted.”
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Can't accept
Salvation Army (SATCoL)
Their wording
“Gas appliances (mains or bottled goods)”
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Can't accept
Shaw Trust
Their wording
“gas appliances”
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Can't accept
St Barnabas Hospice (Lincolnshire)
Their wording
“Gas appliances (mains or bottled goods)”
- Can't accept St Christopher's Hospice
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Can't accept
St Giles Hospice
Also excludes oil and gas Agas
Their wording
“Gas appliances”
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Can't accept
St Peter's Hospice
Also gas cookers
Their wording
“Gas appliances (mains or bottled)”
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Can't accept
St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP)
Their wording
“Gas appliances (mains or bottles goods)”
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Can't accept
Sue Ryder
Their wording
“gas or petrol appliances e.g. gas cookers, heaters or those designed to operate on bottled gas”
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Can't accept
The Children's Trust
Their wording
“Gas appliances (mains or bottled).”
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Can't accept
Trinity Hospice (Blackpool)
Their wording
“Gas appliances”
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Can't accept
Wales Air Ambulance
Their wording
“Any gas or petrol appliances”
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Check first
Overgate Hospice
Not accepted unless brand new in original packaging; includes gas cookers and oil/gas Agas.
Their wording
“Gas appliances (mains or bottled goods)”
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Check first
Save the Children
broad category rule
Exception: accepted at selected stores — donors are told to check first.
Their wording
“unable to accept electrical goods (except in selected stores - please check first)”
Not mentioned in 18 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 Acorns Children's Hospice
- Not mentioned Age UK
- Not mentioned Barnardo's
- Not mentioned Crisis
- Not mentioned FARA Charity Shops
- Not mentioned Great Western Air Ambulance Charity
- Not mentioned Keech Hospice Care
- Not mentioned Marie Curie
- Not mentioned Oxfam
- Not mentioned PDSA
- Not mentioned Samaritans
- Not mentioned Scope
- Not mentioned Sense Scotland
- Not mentioned Shelter
- Not mentioned Traid
- Not mentioned Willen Hospice
- Not mentioned Woodgreen Pets Charity
- Not mentioned YMCA (England & Wales)