Are there toys your kids have outgrown lying around at the back of your closet? Do you have pre-loved books, clothes, furniture or household linen that you no longer use but are still in good condition?

Here’s our guide on where you can donate your pre-loved items to help those in need. Not only will you be doing something meaningful, but you’ll also be able to declutter your home.

⇒ Related Read: How I decluttered my home the Marie Kondo way

Greensquare Textile Recycling

Photo: Greensquare Textile Recycling Facebook



About Greensquare:

Greensquare aspires to make a positive impact; their current target is to double the percentage of recycled textiles from 7% to 14% by 2020. They also provide free textile recycling services to households and organisations in Singapore and promote awareness of the 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) through education, with a focus on engaging youths in schools.

Items to donate:

Clean clothes

Clean and wearable paired shoes

Clean household linen (e.g. bed sheets and towels)

Accessories (e.g. belts and bags)

How and Where: Please refer to this link for a list of drop-off locations. You can schedule a collection if the minimum weight of your donation is 15kg.

Contact: Visit their website or Facebook page for more details.



Angel Hearts Singapore

Photo courtesy of Angel Gowns (now Angel Hearts)

About Angel Gowns: In August 2016, a group of ladies came together to form Angel Gowns Singapore. Angel Gowns Singapore produces little garments, otherwise known as angel gowns, from donated wedding gowns to cater to the needs of bereaved families. Angel gowns are made for babies who lost their lives due to miscarriages, stillbirths or other complications in the course of pregnancy.









You can support their work in the following ways:

Donations in kind (wedding gowns, tea dresses, suits, ribbons, lace, buttons)

Volunteer to help in sewing, deconstruction, cutting, couriers etc

Monetary donation to help fund our purchases and logistics

Spread the word in any way possible

Get to know them through their work on their Facebook page.

Global Ehsan Relief Singapore

Photo: Global Ehsan Relief Singapore Facebook

About Global Ehsan Relief: Global Ehsan Relief aspires to excel in humanitarian relief, providing humanitarian services with the highest level of compassion, professionalism and care.

Items to donate: Pre-loved clothes

How & Where: Global Ehsan Relief Singapore Office, 93 Joo Chiat Road. Their office is open for donations every day (except PH).

Contact: For any enquiries, feel free to call 8311 0546. Get to know them through their work on their Facebook page.

Pass-It-On

Photo: passiton.org.sg

About Pass-It-On: Pass-It-On is an organisation you can approach to give your pre-loved furniture a new lease of life. This non-profit project, managed by the Helping Hand, makes donating easier and more efficient by matching pre-loved items that the general public can offer to lower-income families in need.

Items you can donate:

Home appliances

Home furniture

Medical aids, mobility aids, and learning aids

How & Where: Voluntary Welfare Organisations (VWOs) submit requests for items that their clients need on an online portal, and you can “grant a wish” at www.passiton.org.sg/grant-a-wish by donating those items. Alternatively, you can also list items you’d like to donate, and a VWO will contact you directly to arrange collection if the items can be used to help the needy.

Contact: Visit www.passiton.org.sg or call +65 8511 9160 on Mondays to Fridays from 9am to 5pm.

The Salvation Army

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About The Salvation Army: The Salvation Army is probably the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions ‘thrift store’, and its prominent mega family thrift store in Upper Bukit Timah is a go-to place for vintage secondhand finds for many Singaporeans.

This international charitable organisation has had a base in Singapore since the 1930s, and seeks to help the underprivileged without discrimination. You can help the local community by donating your pre-loved or unused items for resale at any of their thrift stores.

Items you can donate:

Clothing

Furniture

Household goods

Electronic devices

Toys and books

How & Where: Drop your items off at Donation In Kind booths located all over the island. Addresses of the booths can be found at www.salvationarmy.org.

If you have bulky items, you can arrange for a collection service by calling +65 6288 5438, booking online at www.redshieldindustries.com or emailing donor@SMM.salvationarmy.org with a brief description of the items you wish to donate, your collection address and contact number.

Contact: A list of all their centres and thrift stores are up on their website.

SCWO’s New2U Thrift Shop

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About New2U Thrift Shop: Salvation Army isn’t the only organisation with a thrift store – the Singapore Council of Women’s Organisations (SCWO) has one of their own too. The New2U Thrift Shop is run entirely by volunteers and has been open since 2000.

Everything sold by the store is donated and amazingly cheap – as low as a dollar! Proceeds go towards SCWO’s various social initiatives, such as Star Shelter, a safe refuge shelter for battered women and children.

Items you can donate:

Clothes (men, women, and children)

Books & Toys

Bags & Accessories

Shoes

Crockery & Utensils

Note: New2U does not accept the following:



Furniture

Electronic items and electrical appliances

Used towels

Used undergarments

Old cassettes and cassette tapes

CDs, VCDs, DVDs or Blueray discs

How & Where: Items should be clearly labelled as ‘Donations for New2U’, and dropped off at SCWO Centre at 96 Waterloo Street, Singapore 187967 on any day of the week between 9am and 10pm.

Contact: Visit the thrift store’s websites at www.facebook.com/New2UShop and www.scwo.org.sg/index.php/new2u-thrift-shop, or give the shop a call at +65 6837 0611.

MINDS Shop

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About MINDS’ Shop: Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore’s (MINDS) Shop is not just another thrift store. The exceptional thing about this thrift store, in particular, is its unique employees.

These employees are MINDS’ clients, and the shop provides in-house training on how to interact with customers, as well as how to organise and tag goods for sale. This store additionally provides an invaluable opportunity for the general public to understand the challenges faced by the intellectually disabled.

Items to donate: Furniture, clothes, collectibles, housewares. For the full list, please refer to this link.

How & Where: Drop in at any one of their stores at Margaret Drive, Woodlands Ring Road, Lorong Napiri, and Rosyth Road during opening hours. More details can be found at www.minds.org.sg/Shop.html

Contact: Visit their website. Alternatively, contact Ms Linda Yusop at shawalindah.hq@minds.org.sg or +65 8180 2095.





Singapore Freecycle Network

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About Freecycle: As a final option, if you can’t find anywhere else to donate your pre-loved goods, the Singapore Freecycle Network aims to promote recycling and keep useful items out of landfills by connecting people who are giving items to others who are seeking them. All items must be given for free in accordance to group guidelines.

Items to donate: Essentially anything and everything. As the saying goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

How & Where: The process takes place entirely online at www.facebook.com/groups/iamfreecycle. Post a picture of your item on the Facebook group and anyone interested can contact you directly and collect the item personally.

Tzu Chi

Photo: ZeroWasteSG

About Tzu Chi: Every second Sunday of the month is the designated monthly recycling day of Tzu Chi Singapore. To engage their respective communities, Tzu Chi volunteers will go around the neighbourhoods to invite residents to deliver their recyclable items to the recycling points.

Poster boards are also erected at the respective points to increase public awareness about environmental-friendly living; residents are often encouraged to try their hands at the sorting of the recyclable items too.

Items to donate:

Clothes

Electrical appliances

School bags

Leather

Belts

Shoes

Soft toys

CDs

How & Where: You can drop off your items at the various recycling points across Singapore.

Contact: Call them at +65 829958 or drop them an email at info@tzuchi.org.sg. For more info, visit their website.

Dignity Mama Stall

Photo: Dignity Mama Facebook

About Dignity Mama: The intention of Dignity Mama Stall is to put parents with challenged youth together to manage a retail stall selling second-hand books. An initiative of Project Dignity Pte Ltd, the stall sells used books, which are managed by mothers and children with special needs.

Items to donate:

Storybooks

Comics

Management books

Encyclopedias

Magazines

Arts & craft books

Autobiographies

Please ensure that the books and magazines are in a good state as these books will be sold as second-hand books by beneficiaries of Dignity Mama Stall to members of the public to raise funds.

How and Where: You can drop off your pre-loved books at Ng Teng Fong Hospital or National University Hospital. Fill in the form on their website on the details of your book drop.

Contact: Follow them on their Facebook page for more updates. Alternatively, you can email them at enquiry@projectdignity.sg or call them at +65 8189 7678.

Willing Hearts

Photo: People of Singapore

About Willing Hearts: Willing Hearts is a secular, non-denominational and non-affiliated charity, that aims to provide daily meals and other support services to the underprivileged, the needy, and other marginalised members in Singapore.

They operate a soup kitchen that prepares, cooks and distributes about 4,500 daily meals to the needy, 365 days a year. Beneficiaries include the elderly, the disabled, low-income families, children from single parent or otherwise poverty-stricken families, and migrant workers in Singapore.

Items to donate:

Rice

Bee Hoon

Macaroni

Oil – preferably Canola Oil or Sunflower Oil

Salt

Pepper

Sugar – preferably Raw Sugar

Tomato Sauce

Chilli Sauce

Sesame Oil

Light Soy Sauce

Dark Soy Sauce

How & Where: You may wish to donate directly to Willing Hearts at 11 Jalan Ubi Blk 6, #01-51 Kembangan – Chai Chee Community Hub Singapore 409074 during our operating hours of 4.30 am to 3.00pm

Contact: Email them at willingheartsingapore@gmail.com or call any of the following numbers: +65 6743 0725, +65 6743 0705 or +65 6476 5822. Visit their website.

Uplift Project Singapore

Photo: Uplift Project Singapore Facebook



About Uplift Project: Uplift Project is a volunteer group founded in Australia who collect and ship secondhand and new bras, and coordinate their distribution to underprivileged women all around the Asia-Pacific region. They accept any style of bras including nursing, maternity, breastfeeding bras, mastectomy and nursing pads.

Items to donate: Preloved bras and nursing bras

How & Where: Postal addresses of where you can drop off your items will be updated on their Facebook page or website. Currently, there is no ongoing bra collection drive in Singapore. Donors can opt to post or hand carry donations directly to recipient countries. Addresses and instructions can be found here.

Contact: Email singapore@upliftbras.org to find out where your items can be dropped off.

Babes Pregnancy Crisis Support Ltd

Photo: Babes Pregnancy Crisis Support Ltd Facebook Page

About Babes Pregnancy Crisis Support Ltd: Babes was launched on 22 February 2005 as a programme under Beyond Social Services. Babes was positioned as a service for teenage girls in a pregnancy crisis and they envision a more inclusive society where every pregnant teenager needing support will not feel estranged or marginalised.

Items to donate: Unexpired formulated milk powder, diapers, pre-loved babies’ clothes, prams and strollers

How & Where: Email Zeenat at hello@babes.org.sg to discuss the donation in kind or call +65 6664 8591.

Contact: Visit their website or Facebook page.

Blessings in a Bag

Photo: blessingsinabag.org

About Blessings in a Bag: Blessings in a Bag is a non-profit organisation, which brings bags of toys, hygiene products, clothes, and school supplies (otherwise known as “blessings”) to disadvantaged children in rural villages across Southeast Asia. After you donate, suitable items will be distributed to communities in need, while the other items will be resold in Singapore and the funds collected will be used to cover operational costs.









Items you can donate:

Cushion pack (non-fabric material) – can be New or Used

Vinyl bean bags (kids-sized) – can be New or Used

Mini whiteboards (A4 size) – can be New or Used

Square post-it notes

Blu-Tac

Coloured Construction Paper

Laminating pouches (A4 and A3 sizes)

Large magnetic digital timer

Ring binder (1 or 2 inches)

Polaroid camera – can be New or Used

Polaroid camera films

Label maker

Label maker tape

Activity books

Colouring books

Children’s Books – only for toddler through 12 years old – can be New or Used

Jigsaw Puzzle Sets (needs to be complete sets and tape the box down to prevent pieces falling out) – can be New or Used

Coloured pencil sets

Coloured marker sets

Cute pencils (traditional and mechanical)

Cute pens

Educational board/card games

Milo packets

Ribena packets

How & Where: Currently, they are unable to accept any donations in kind due to a lack of storage space. Please visit their webpages listed below for any updates.

Contact: Visit the organisation’s webpages at www.facebook.com/blessingsinabag or www.blessingsinabag.co.

EcoBank Singapore

Photo: EcoBank Facebook page

About EcoBank: If you have something that’s too good to throw away, EcoBank it! Ecobank’s collection drive has started, and they are welcoming donations. The collection drive will commence on 6 January 2020 – 31 January 2020. The EcoBank Bazaar will be held from 28 February to 1 March 2020 at City Square Mall Atrium.

Items to donate (that are in good, re-saleable condition):

Toys and stationery

Clean clothes

Books

Shoes, bags and fashion accessories

Working electronics

Usable kitchenware

Household items and decor

How and Where: Items can be dropped off at any of the 8 collection points below:

Republic Plaza (Daily Opening Hours: 8am – 10pm)

9 Raffles Place

Tower 2 Lobby​, Level 1

(entrance along Malacca St.) Quayside Isle (Daily Opening Hours: 10am – 10pm)

31 Ocean Way, Level B1

(next to management office) Central Mall Office (Daily Opening Hours: 8am – 10pm)

1 Magazine Road, Level 1

(Customer service counter) City Square Mall (Daily Opening Hours: 10am – 10pm)

180 Kitchener Road,

B2 (next to travellators, facing Fox Kids) City House (Daily Opening Hours: 8am – 10pm)

36 Robinson Road, Lobby Fuji Xerox Towers (Daily Opening Hours: 8am – 10pm)

80 Anson Road

Lobby, Level 1

(Customer service counter) South Beach (Daily Opening Hours: 8am – 10pm)

38 Beach Road, B1

(near Starbucks, en route to Esplanade MRT) The Salvation Army Red Shield Industries (Daily Opening Hours: 10am – 6pm, except Sunday)

356 Tanglin Road

(Dropoff at the Ecobank tentage located at the carpark)

Contact: Follow their Facebook page for more news.

Project HOPE

About Project HOPE: Project HOPE was created to provide daily necessities for the lower-income residents in Nee Soon East. Run entirely by volunteers, Project HOPE displays all donated items on shelves, allowing the residents to pick out what they require.

Items to donate:

Kids’ toys, books and stationery

Food that’s not expired or too close to expiring

Baby care items

Home appliances

How and Where: Drop by Project HOPE shop at Blk 227 Yishun St 21 #01-520 S760227 on 24 Feb, 7.30pm – 9.30pm

Singapore Really Really Free Market 2020

The Really Really Free Market is a temporary market based on the concept of giving and building a community based on sharing resources, caring for one another and improving the collective lives of all.

Everything is free! Come share your stuff (books, CDs, toys, food, etc) or skills (tarot card reading, hair cutting, poetry writing, singing, etc) by giving them to others who need them!

How and Where: 22 February 2020, 3pm – 6pm at Blk 9 Lock Road Gillman Barracks

Contact: Follow their Facebook page for more details.

By Michele See, updated by Michelle Ang and Marinne Santiago as at 20 February 2020.

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