All items · Baby & children
Prams, pushchairs and buggies
Also covers: stroller, travel system, double buggy
Why shops refuse it
Safety standards for wheeled baby goods change often and shops can't verify a used one still complies.
What to do instead
Local baby banks often take clean, working pushchairs — search for a baby bank near you.
Charity by charity
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Can't accept
Cornwall Hospice Care
Their wording
“Prams, pushchairs and buggies”
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Can't accept
Dogs Trust
Their wording
“children's car seats, prams, highchairs and cots”
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Can't accept
Dorothy House
Their wording
“Baby carries, car seats , buggies and prams”
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Can't accept
Emmaus
Their wording
“Prams, buggies, walkers, cots, baby toys and high chairs”
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Can't accept
Great Western Air Ambulance Charity
Their wording
“Children's items (car seats, pushchairs/prams, cots, mattresses, high chairs)”
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Can't accept
Marie Curie
Their wording
“Prams, pushchairs or cots/Moses baskets.”
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Can't accept
Phyllis Tuckwell
Their wording
“Highchairs, pushchairs or baby-related equipment”
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Can't accept
Shaw Trust
Their wording
“prams, pushchairs, buggies”
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Can't accept
St Peter's Hospice
Their wording
“Prams, pushchairs and buggies”
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Can't accept
St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP)
Their wording
“Prams, pushchairs, buggies”
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Can't accept
Willen Hospice
Given as an example of unaccepted baby/children's equipment
Their wording
“Baby/children's equipment e.g. cots/prams”
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Check first
British Heart Foundation
Covers prams, pushchairs and buggies. Only accepted at a selected number of stores due to required safety checks; contact Customer Service Centre.
Their wording
“Due to the safety checks required for the resale of baby and nursery equipment, we can only accept these in a selected number of stores”
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FARA Charity Shops
Only accepted complete and in full working order; broken prams not taken.
Their wording
“Complete - full sets, working order only.”
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Princess Alice Hospice
Only accepted with fitting instructions and fire labels
Their wording
“Prams, pushchairs and buggies without fitting instructions or fire labels”
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Samaritans
Unless new or sealed.
Their wording
“prams, pushchairs, buggies, cots, high chairs, cot mattresses”
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St Barnabas Hospice (Lincolnshire)
Must have a label stating compliance with British Standard 7409:1996 and the correct fire label
Their wording
“a label stating it complies with British Standard 7409:1996 and have the correct fire labels 'Carelessness Causes Fires'”
Not mentioned in 28 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 British Red Cross
- Not mentioned Cancer Research UK
- Not mentioned Claire House Children's Hospice
- Not mentioned Crisis
- Not mentioned DEBRA
- Not mentioned Keech Hospice Care
- Not mentioned LOROS Hospice
- Not mentioned Octavia Foundation
- Not mentioned Overgate Hospice
- Not mentioned Oxfam
- Not mentioned PDSA
- Not mentioned Salvation Army (SATCoL)
- Not mentioned Save the Children
- Not mentioned Scope
- Not mentioned Sense Scotland
- Not mentioned Shelter
- Not mentioned St Christopher's Hospice
- Not mentioned St Giles Hospice
- Not mentioned Sue Ryder
- Not mentioned The Children's Trust
- Not mentioned Traid
- Not mentioned Trinity Hospice (Blackpool)
- Not mentioned Wales Air Ambulance
- Not mentioned Woodgreen Pets Charity
- Not mentioned YMCA (England & Wales)