Used Postage Stamps For Charity (UK)
Millions of people, young and old, are stamp collectors (philatelists), and philately is an educatonal and fun hobby.
Couple this with helping charities as well!!!!
This is a webpage listing charities in the UK which collect used postage stamps to raise money for charity. Charities find used stamps, which they then sort, and sell on to collectors and philatelists, an excellent source of extra income, and you are helping save the environment and reduce waste by not binning them! What could be better?
Whether your stamps are recent or old, common or rare, wherever they come from across the world, every stamp can be saved!
The charities/ volunteers below collect used stamps for charities. Please send your used stamps to any of them,
all donations of stamps will be most gratefully received!
Website last updated: May 1st 2012
NOTE: Please ensure that adequate postage is applied to your package
(If underpaid, the Post Office charge the reciever £1 plus the underpaid dues) otherwise your donation may not reach the charity. There have been several reports recently that packages are being sent to the charities listed here with no/ vastly underpaid postage.
This then either costs them a lot of money to retrieve the packages, which makes it pointless sending them a donation or means that your donation will not reach them anyway.
CHARITIES WHICH NEED YOUR USED POSTAGE STAMPS:
RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution)
the society that pays for the lifeboats that mean hundreds of lives are saved each year around Britians coast.
RNLI stamps, care/of 7 Speedwell, Brixham Devon, TQ5 9MJ, England
(please note this is not a head office address, but is simply a local unpaid volunteer. Please only send stamps,
no other correspondance. Reciept confirmations available upon request !)
Please ensure correct postage is put on bulky envelopes, as we cannot afford to pay to retrieve them from the sorting office if insufficient postage is put on
International and UK postage stamps equally welcome.
Address Last Confirmed: May 7th 2012
The Leukaemia Research Fund.
Wendy Tyrrell,10 Belmont Way,South Elmsall, Pontefract,West Yorkshire.WF 9 2BT. England Address Last Confirmed: Sept 2010
RNIB (Royal National Insitute For The Blind
Please leave approximately 1cm of envelope bordering each stamp. The rest of the envelope can be discarded (which will make it cheaper to send). Please separate the stamps into:
1) British
2) Overseas
The value of a stamp does not matter, so 1p stamps can be grouped together with £1 stamps.
Collected stamps should be sent to:
RNIB Stamp Recycling, PO Box 185, BENFLEET, SS7 9BH
Address Last Confirmed: Aug 2011
NBFA (National Benevolent Fund for the Aged)
This is a charity that aims to reduce isolation and loneliness in vulnerable older people in the UK.
www.nbfa.org.uk
Please send stamps to:
NBFA, P.O. Box 6198, Leighton Buzzard, Beds LU7 9XT
(please note this is not a head office address, please only send stamps, no other correspondance. Reciept confirmations available upon request !)
Please ensure correct postage is put on bulky envelopes, as we cannot afford to pay to retrieve them from the sorting office if insufficient postage is put on
International and UK postage stamps equally welcome.
Address confirmed May 1st 2012
Oxfam
Volunteers sort stamps that come into the Banbury Oxfam shop and sell them to other collectors. This raises valuable funds to help Oxfam support those in need across the world.Drop them into your local Oxfam shop, or send to:
Oxfam Bookshop
Bear Inn, Market Place
Banbury
OX16 5NW
Address confirmed May 7th 2012
LUCIA (Life Uplifted by Change In Africa')
This is a charity which helps people (womens groups, healthcare etc) in Africa
Used Stamps, P.O. Box 224, The Guild, Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham, West Midlands. B15 2TU. United Kingdom.
Address Last Confirmed: May 2010
St Francis Hospice
This is a Christian hospice helping people who need cancer care.
Fundraising, The Hall, Havering-atte-Bower, Romford. RM4 1QH.
Address Last Confirmed: May 2010
CRY Stamps and Collectables,
27 High Street, Eastleigh, Southampton, SO50 5LF, UK. CRY (Care and Relief for the Young) is a Christian charity dedicated to caring for disadvantaged, destitute and suffering children, young people and their families.
CRY aims to rescue and restore young lives broken by poverty, oppression, exclusion and abuse and to provide appropriate opportunities for a better future.
Address Last Confirmed: May 2010
Leprosy Mission (TLM)
Our mission is to minister in the name of Jesus Christ to the physical, mental, social and spiritual needs of individuals and communities disadvantaged by leprosy; working with them to uphold human dignity and eradicate leprosy.
Send to:26 Drift Road, Clanfield, Waterlooville, Hants, PO8 0JL
Address Last Confirmed: May 2010
LEPRA
the British charity for the worldwide relief of leprosy and kindred diseases. Any stamps and anything philatelic, plus postcards,used or unused are acceptable. David Fagence; 43 Fairway; Carshalton; Surrey; SM5 4HR; United Kingdom
Address Last Confirmed: May 2010
BRITTLE BONE SOCIETY
The Brittle Bone Society collects and then sells on all types of used stamps..
Please ensure correct postage is put on bulky envelopes, as we cannot afford to pay to retrieve them from the sorting office if insufficient postage is put on
Send stamps (you can also send coins and postcards to this address, the older the better!) to:
Mr and Mrs J Price
57 Mount Pleasant
Swansea
West Glamorgan
Wales
SA1 6EQ
http://www.brittlebone.org/supportbbsfundraising.html
Address Last Confirmed: Feb 2012
DHIVERSE
This charity works to reduce the spread of HIV and AIDS. They accept postcards as well as stamps.
To donate unwanted stamps or postcards please either drop them into one of their centres or send them via post to:
Please ensure correct postage is put on bulky envelopes, as we cannot afford to pay to retrieve them from the sorting office if insufficient postage is put on
The Stamps Team
DHIVERSE
Office B
Dales Brewery
Gwydir Street
Cambridge
CB1 2LJ
http://www.dhiverse.org.uk/_stampsAndCoins.htm
Address Last Confirmed: May 2011
Carers’ Centre Hull is collecting used stamps to raise further funds so please send us your stamps.
We can raise money from both British and overseas stamps. It doesn't matter if they have already been used, or if they are everyday first or second class stamps.
When you are next coming into Hull please pop them into the Centre or alternatively post them to:
Please ensure correct postage is put on bulky envelopes, as we cannot afford to pay to retrieve them from the sorting office if insufficient postage is put on
Carers’ Centre Hull
Unit 5, The Shirethorn Centre
37-42 Prospect Street
Hull
HU2 8BR
http://www.carerscentrehull.org.uk/
Address Last Confirmed: Oct 2010
Together Trust
The Together Trust (registered charity number: 209782) provides care, education and support for children and adults with learning and physical disabilities, autism and emotional needs. Our services include residential homes, domiciliary care, specialist schools and a foster ing service for hard to place children. Every year we help over 1400 children and adults to overcome very significant barriers giving them the most positive future possible.
Please ensure correct postage is put on bulky envelopes, as we cannot afford to pay to retrieve them from the sorting office if insufficient postage is put on
Together Trust centre
Schools Hill
Cheadle
SK8 1JE
Email anne.dawson@togethertrust.org.uk
Address Last Confirmed: May 2010
Animal SOS Sri Lanka
Animal SOS Sri Lanka is a UK registered charity who recycles used stamps, going some way to funding their vital work with the stray animals in Sri Lanka. Animal SOS Sri Lanka own a 4-acre plot in south Sri Lanka which is an emergency veterinary clinic to treat sick and injured stray animals and a safe-haven for the vulnerable and abused. Any funding enables them to save the lives of many otherwise doomed animals, providing high standards of veterinary care inclding blood screening and postoperative care after sterilisation - which is vital to ensure the survival of the animals.
Please ensure correct postage is put on bulky envelopes, as we cannot afford to pay to retrieve them from the sorting office if insufficient postage is put on
Stamps should be sent to:
Animal SOS Sri Lanka
64 Fair Acres
Prestwood
Great Missenden
Bucks HP16 0LE
Address Last Confirmed: March 2012
Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust
We are a small UK based charity working in The Gambia to reduce rural poverty through improving the welfare and management of working equines. We do this through a combintaion of educational programmes and also provide veterinary care for any animals who require it. The Gambian farmers rely on their horses and donkeys for both farming and transport, so by improving the lives of the animals we are also in tuen improving the lives of their owners. Please sseparate stamps into UK and Overseas and send to Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust, Brewery Arms Cottage, Stane Street, Ockley, Surrey. RH5 5TH
Address Last Confirmed: Jan 2012
Thatu
Thatu was created in the UK in 2004 by a handful of people who had been inspired by the initiatives of many communities working against the odds in South Africa.
We support such self-help and home-grown projects in poorly resourced communities in South Africa so that they can flourish and reach their full potential – sustaining the future.
Please send stamps to:
Thatu Stamp Appeal,179 Lyham Road, London SW2 5PY
info@thatu.org
www.thatu.org
Address Last Confirmed: Feb 2012
If you collect stamps for a charity, add yourself to the list
Just send an email with what charity its for, a few words about the charity so that people know what cause they are supporting, if its not clear from the name, and an email/website where people can ask for the postal address of where to send the stamps. This listing is free, and kept up to date, so if things change, just contact me to have the listing edited or removed.
Email: englishgirl2009-sunshine@yahoo.co.uk
