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Used breast pumps, sterilisers and feeding equipment
Also covers: breast pump, breast pumps, steriliser, sterilizer, bottle steriliser, baby bottles, feeding equipment
Can you donate used breast pumps, sterilisers and feeding equipment to a UK charity shop? No.
Why shops may refuse it
Used feeding equipment can have hygiene-critical parts and may need electrical safety testing, so the policies that name it only allow new items under strict conditions.
What to do instead
Ask a baby bank or the shop about the exact make and condition. Replace personal-contact parts where the manufacturer allows and never donate recalled equipment.
Charity by charity
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Can't accept
Their wording
“Plastic feeding bottles or bowls”
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Can't accept
Only acceptable brand new and after passing portable appliance testing.
Their wording
“Used breast pumps, sterilisers or baby monitors”
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Can't accept
Used breast pumps and sterilisers are refused; new items can be sold.
Their wording
“Used breast pumps, sterilisers (new items can be sold)”
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Can't accept
Closest available baby-feeding item; breast pumps/sterilisers are not separately mentioned by Demelza, only used feeding cups/beakers/bottles.
Their wording
“Used cups/beakers/bottles”
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Can't accept
Hospice at Home Carlisle and North Lakeland category-wide rule
Applies to all baby & children items
Their wording
“Baby furniture and equipment”
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Can't accept
Their wording
“Used breast pumps, sterilisers”
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Can't accept
Baby bottle preparation machines are refused unless brand new.
Their wording
“Baby bottle prep machines (unless brand new)”
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Can't accept
Phyllis Tuckwell category-wide rule
No baby-related equipment accepted
Their wording
“Highchairs, pushchairs or baby-related equipment”
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Can't accept
Accepted only if brand new and they pass a portable appliance (PAT) test.
Their wording
“Used breast pumps, sterilisers or baby monitors (safety and hygiene reasons). Only acceptable if brand new and they pass portable appliance tests.”
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Can't accept
Only brand-new, sealed, CE-marked breast pumps and sterilisers are accepted; used ones are refused (their 'Steriliser' entry says the same).
Their wording
“Please do not donate breast pumps that are: ❌ Used ❌ Missing parts ❌ Without a current CE marking”
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Can't accept
Refused unless new/unopened in original packaging.
Their wording
“Used breast pumps, sterilisers or baby monitors unless new in a packaging.”
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Can't accept
Accepted only if new and sealed in original packaging.
Their wording
“Breast pumps and baby monitors (unless new and sealed in their original packaging)”
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Can't accept
St Wilfrid's Hospice category-wide rule
In addition to cots, prams/strollers, carriers and car/booster seats being explicitly listed as not accepted. Baby/children's clothing is separately and explicitly welcomed ('Clean and undamaged children's clothing', 'Clean and undamaged baby clothing') and sits under the Clothing & accessories category, not this one.
Their wording
“Baby and nursery equipment”
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Can't accept
Listed under 'Baby Accessories'.
Their wording
“Baby bottles and dummies, used teething aids cannot be accepted for hygiene reasons.”
Not mentioned in 139 charities' guidance
Absence from a charity's list doesn't mean they accept it — it just isn't singled out. Ask your local shop.
- Accord Hospice
- Acorns Children's Hospice
- Age UK
- Ardgowan Hospice
- Ashgate Hospicecare
- Ayrshire Hospice
- Barnardo's
- Barnsley Hospice
- Bolton Hospice
- British Heart Foundation
- Butterfly Hospice Trust
- Butterwick Hospice
- Children's Hospice South West
- Children's Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS)
- Claire House Children's Hospice
- Cornwall Hospice Care
- Cransley Hospice Trust
- Crisis
- DEBRA
- Derian House Children's Hospice
- Dogs Trust
- Dorothy House
- Douglas Macmillan Hospice
- Dr Kershaw's Hospice
- East Lancashire Hospice
- Eden Valley Hospice and Jigsaw, Cumbria's Children's Hospice
- Ellenor
- Emmaus
- FARA Charity Shops
- Farleigh Hospice
- Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity
- Forget Me Not Children's Hospice
- Garden House Hospice Care
- Great Oaks Hospice
- Great Western Air Ambulance Charity
- Greenwich & Bexley Community Hospice
- Heart of Kent Hospice
- Helen & Douglas House
- Highland Hospice
- Hope House & Ty Gobaith Children's Hospices
- Hospice in the Weald
- Hospice Isle of Man
- Hospice of the Good Shepherd
- Hospice of the Valleys
- Jersey Hospice Care
- Julia's House
- Katharine House Hospice (Stafford)
- Katharine House Hospice, Banbury
- Keech Hospice Care
- KEMP Hospice
- Lindsey Lodge Hospice
- Longfield Community Hospice
- LOROS Hospice
- Marie Curie
- Martin House Children's Hospice
- Mountbatten Isle of Wight
- Moya Cole Hospice
- Naomi House & Jack's Place
- Nightingale House Hospice
- North Devon Hospice
- North London Hospice
- Nottinghamshire Hospice
- Octavia Foundation
- Oxfam
- PDSA
- Pendleside Hospice
- Pilgrims Hospices
- Primrose Hospice
- Princess Alice Hospice
- Prospect Hospice
- Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People
- Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care
- Rotherham Hospice
- Rowans Hospice
- Royal Trinity Hospice (London)
- Saint Francis Hospice
- Salvation Army (SATCoL)
- Samaritans
- Save the Children
- Scope
- Sense Scotland
- Severn Hospice
- Shaw Trust
- Shelter
- Shooting Star Children's Hospices
- Southern Hospice Group
- Springhill Hospice
- St Andrew's Hospice (Lanarkshire)
- St Barnabas Hospice (Lincolnshire)
- St Catherine's Hospice (Crawley)
- St Catherine's Hospice (Lancashire)
- St Christopher's Hospice
- St Clare Hospice
- St Columba's Hospice
- St Cuthbert's Hospice
- St David's Hospice Care
- St Giles Hospice
- St Helena Hospice
- St John's Hospice (Lancaster, Morecambe, Kendal & Garstang)
- St John's Hospice (London)
- St Luke's Cheshire Hospice
- St Luke's Hospice Basildon & Thurrock
- St Luke's Hospice Plymouth
- St Margaret's Hospice Care (Somerset)
- St Mary's Hospice
- St Michael's Hospice (North Hampshire)
- St Nicholas Hospice Care
- St Oswald's Hospice
- St Peter & St James Hospice
- St Peter's Hospice
- St Raphael's Hospice
- St Richard's Hospice
- St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP)
- St Vincent's Hospice
- Strathcarron Hospice
- Sue Ryder
- Thames Hospice
- The Children's Trust
- The Kirkwood
- The Myton Hospices
- The Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice
- The Prince of Wales Hospice
- The Shakespeare Hospice
- Traid
- Treetops Hospice Trust
- Trinity Hospice (Blackpool)
- Tynedale Hospice at Home
- Wakefield Hospice
- Wales Air Ambulance
- Weldmar Hospicecare
- Wigan and Leigh Hospice
- Willen Hospice
- Willow Burn Hospice
- Willow Wood Hospice
- Willowbrook Hospice
- Wirral Hospice St John's
- Woking & Sam Beare Hospices
- Woodgreen Pets Charity
- YMCA (England & Wales)