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DVDs and videos without a BBFC rating
Also covers: unrated dvd, home recording, recorded vhs, 18 dvd, r18
Why shops refuse it
Home-recorded or unclassified video generally cannot be resold, while classified adult titles require appropriate age checks.
What to do instead
Home recordings can't be passed on at all — recycle the cases and take tapes/discs to the tip.
Charity by charity
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Can't accept
British Heart Foundation
Also home recorded computer games/software on recordable media.
Their wording
“Home recorded DVDs, video and audio tapes”
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Can't accept
British Red Cross
R18 material and anything not BBFC-classified.
Their wording
“Any DVDs and videos not legally classified by the British Board of Film Classification”
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Can't accept
Cancer Research UK
Their wording
“Home-recorded videos, CDs, DVDs, software, or games”
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Can't accept
Dorothy House
Also excludes non region 0/2 DVDs, R18-rated DVDs and home-recorded software
Their wording
“Home recorded DVDs, video and audio tapes”
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Can't accept
Great Western Air Ambulance Charity
Officially released books/CDs/LPs/DVDs are accepted; only home-recorded media is refused.
Their wording
“home-recorded media not accepted”
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Can't accept
Overgate Hospice
Also excludes home-recorded computer games/software.
Their wording
“Home recorded DVDs”
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Can't accept
Princess Alice Hospice
Also excludes home recorded computer games and software
Their wording
“Home recorded DVDs, video and audio tapes”
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Can't accept
Salvation Army (SATCoL)
18-certificate media, anything not BBFC-classified, and pornographic material.
Their wording
“18 Certificate DVDs/Videos/Blu-ray/Computer Games”
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Can't accept
Shaw Trust
Their wording
“Home-recorded media”
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Can't accept
Shelter
Their wording
“adult or explicit material”
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Can't accept
St Barnabas Hospice (Lincolnshire)
Also excludes home recorded computer games/software on recordable CDs/DVDs
Their wording
“Home recorded video and audio tapes / DVDs”
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Can't accept
St Giles Hospice
Also excludes home recorded software
Their wording
“Home recorded DVDs, video and audio tapes”
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Can't accept
St Peter's Hospice
Also home-recorded software
Their wording
“Home recorded DVDs, video and audio tapes”
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Can't accept
Sue Ryder
Their wording
“recordings made at home for personal use, whether CDs, DVDs, videos or cassettes”
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Can't accept
The Children's Trust
Their wording
“Home recorded DVDs, video and audiotapes, computer games and software on recordable CDs and DVDs.”
Not mentioned in 29 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 Claire House Children's Hospice
- Not mentioned Cornwall Hospice Care
- Not mentioned Crisis
- Not mentioned DEBRA
- Not mentioned Dogs Trust
- Not mentioned Emmaus
- Not mentioned FARA Charity Shops
- Not mentioned Keech Hospice Care
- Not mentioned LOROS Hospice
- Not mentioned Marie Curie
- Not mentioned Octavia Foundation
- Not mentioned Oxfam
- Not mentioned PDSA
- Not mentioned Phyllis Tuckwell
- Not mentioned Samaritans
- Not mentioned Save the Children
- Not mentioned Scope
- Not mentioned Sense Scotland
- Not mentioned St Christopher's Hospice
- Not mentioned St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP)
- Not mentioned Traid
- Not mentioned Trinity Hospice (Blackpool)
- Not mentioned Wales Air Ambulance
- Not mentioned Willen Hospice
- Not mentioned Woodgreen Pets Charity
- Not mentioned YMCA (England & Wales)