We welcome donations of clean, safe items for use in Children’s Education and Creative Arts.
Scroll down for lists of items that we collect and which we might have in stock.
Please note our new policy: We can only accept two bags of donations, or less, from walk-in donors. If you have more, you MUST phone in first. We need to check that we have space for a larger donation. Please help us to keep Scrappies uncluttered by calling the store on: 01694 328508. Thank you.
Sorry we can’t take these:
- Plastic FOOD containers like meat trays or takeaway containers
- LEVER-ARCH FILES
- TOILET ROLL CENTRES
- Most ELECTRICAL items apart from crafting equipment
- Hard stationary like staplers, calculators or paper cutters
Arts and Crafts for Children & Adults
- Beads
- Brushes
- Craft Kits
- Craft tools
- Paints
- Stamping supplies
Card
- White/coloured card
- Boxes (shoe boxes)
- Boxes (various others)
- Brown
- Corrugated
- Textured
- Folders
- Tubes – all sizes
Haberdashery
- Braid
- Buttons
- Cord
- Cotton
- Elastic
- Embroidery supplies
- Felting tools
- Interfacing
- Knitting needles
- Lace
- Plastic sewing needles
- Ribbon
- Velcro
- Wadding
- Wooden/Metal curtain rings
- Wool and other yarns
- Zips
Seasonal
- Christmas decorations
- Easter baskets
- Paper plates (unused)
- Pine cones
- Plastic eggs/Kinder eggs
- Polystyrene eggs and balls
Miscellaneous
- Beer bottle tops
- Cake and Biscuit tins
- Children’s books
- Corks
- Cotton reels
- Decorative/novelty glass jars
- Plastic chocolate containers
Paper
- Artists paper
- Cartridge paper
- Textured papers
- Tissue
- Various crafting
- Wallpaper
Fabrics
- Cotton fabrics
- Calico
- Dress-making fabric
- Embroidered fabrics
- Fabric off-cuts
- Fat quarters
- Felt
- Fleece
- Imitation fur
- Lining materials
- Netting
- Remnant rummage
- Ripstop plastic
- Upholstery fabric
- Uphostery samples
- Velvet
- Vinyl
- Waterproof fabric
Household/second-hand
- Acetate
- Correx
- Craft magazines
- Document wallets
- Foam
- Foil
- Lids (various sizes)
- Perspex
- Plastic rings
- Poster/acrylic/oil paints
- Sponge, large and small
- Sticky-backed plastic
- Various plastic containers
- Wood offcuts, large and small
- Wire
- Yarn cones