All items · Electrical
Gas appliances
Also covers: gas cooker, gas heater, gas fire, gas hob, gas barbecue
Can you donate gas appliances to a UK charity shop? Usually not.
Why shops may refuse it
Gas appliances need specialist installation and safety checks that ordinary charity shops are not equipped to provide.
What to do instead
A Gas Safe engineer can decommission one; councils accept them at recycling centres.
Charity by charity
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Can't accept
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“Heating and cooking equipment that use gas or oil”
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Can't accept
Ardgowan Hospice category-wide rule
Whole "electrical items" category listed as currently not accepted.
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“Currently we CANNOT accept: -Toys, large furniture or electrical items.”
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Can't accept
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“Gas appliances”
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Can't accept
Includes cookers, fires, lighters and hair-styling tools.
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“Mains or bottled gas appliances”
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Can't accept
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“Gas appliances (mains or bottled gas)”
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Can't accept
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“Gas appliances, cylinders, oil-filled radiators”
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Can't accept
Claire House Children's Hospice category-wide rule
Blanket exclusion of electrical items, though brand-new factory-sealed hard drives, SD cards or USB sticks are excepted.
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“Electrical items”
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Can't accept
Includes gas cookers, gas heaters, paraffin/gas stoves, and gas Agas
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“Gas appliances – either mains or bottled”
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Cransley Hospice Trust category-wide rule
Listed under 'Unfortunately, we are unable to accept some items' ('Electrical items, Kitchen equipment and utensils, Used baby equipment including car seats and prams/pushchairs, Bikes') with no exceptions stated.
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“Electrical items”
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“Gas appliances”
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“Gas cookers”
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Can't accept
Also excludes heaters generally (not specified as gas-only).
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“gas appliances, heaters”
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Can't accept
Includes gas cookers, patio heaters, and oil/gas Agas
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“Gas appliances – mains or bottled”
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Can't accept
At The Furniture Hub (gas fires and surrounds).
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“White goods / electric /gas fires or surrounds”
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Can't accept
The same list also excludes 'Gas or Paraffin Heaters and Gas Canisters'.
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“Cookers, Gas”
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Can't accept
Furniture collection page further specifies gas appliances (mains or bottled goods) and gas cookers cannot be collected.
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“Gas appliances”
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Can't accept
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“Flammables, gas cylinders, paints and gas appliances”
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Can't accept
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“Gas appliances (mains or bottled goods)”
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Can't accept
Same bullet also excludes paraffin/gas stoves and electric/gas heaters.
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“Gas appliances & stoves (paraffin or gas) & heaters (electric or gas)”
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Can't accept
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“Gas and Oil appliances”
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Can't accept
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“mains or bottled gas appliances”
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Can't accept
Hospice at Home Carlisle and North Lakeland category-wide rule
Applies to all electrical items
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“Electrical and medical items”
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Can't accept
Also listed as 'Gas appliances, Oil lamps' among the Furniture & Home Items exclusions on the same page.
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“Gas appliances (mains or bottles goods)”
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Can't accept
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“Gas & oil appliances”
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Can't accept
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“Mains or bottled gas appliances, microwaves, electric fires, batteries or computer hard drives”
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Can't accept
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“Items that need gas”
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Can't accept
Katharine House Hospice, Banbury category-wide rule
Listed under 'Unfortunately, we're unable to accept' on the shop donations page.
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“Electrical items or any furniture.”
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Can't accept
Bundled bullet on the donation guide list of unacceptable items.
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“Gas Appliances – Cookers, Fires, Lighters, Hairstyling tools”
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Can't accept
Listed under 'Heating and Cooking Appliances'.
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“Gas appliances, gas cylinders and oil-filled radiators”
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Can't accept
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“Gas appliances (mains or bottled goods)”
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Can't accept
"Gas cookers" also listed separately in the same disallowed list.
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“Gas appliances (mains or bottled)”
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Can't accept
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“We do not take beds or gas cookers.”
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Can't accept
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“Mains or bottled gas appliance”
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Can't accept
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“Things that need fuel or gas”
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Can't accept
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“Gas appliances Including gas bottles and cylinders”
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Can't accept
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“Any gas appliance”
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Phyllis Tuckwell category-wide rule
No electrical items are currently accepted, with one exception: old mobile phones and tablets are welcomed.
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“Unfortunately we are currently unable to accept any electrical items or suitcases.”
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Includes gas cookers and oil/gas Agas, mains or bottled
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“Gas appliances are not accepted.”
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Can't accept
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“Mains or bottled gas appliances (safety reasons). Includes cookers, fires, lighters and hair-styling tools.”
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Can't accept
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“gas appliances, either mains or gas bottles”
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Can't accept
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“Gas appliances (mains or bottled goods)”
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“gas appliances”
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Can't accept
Shown when searching 'Gas appliances'.
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“Thank you for thinking of us. Unfortunately, we’re unable to accept this item for health and safety reasons. We can’t guarantee to our customers that second-hand safety equipment is still fully protective or hasn’t been damaged before.”
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Gas cookers also listed separately as not accepted.
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“Gas appliances (mains or bottle fed)”
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Can't accept
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“Homeware and furniture: Without fire-retardant labelling, as well as certain items like cushions, partially burned candles, and gas appliances.”
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Can't accept
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“Gas appliances”
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Can't accept
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“Gas appliances (mains or bottled goods)”
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Can't accept
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“Gas and Oil appliances”
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Can't accept
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“Gas or oil appliances, batteries”
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Can't accept
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“Gas cookers”
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Can't accept
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“White goods, small appliances, heating and cooking items such as gas appliances, oil heaters and oil filled radiators”
- Can't accept
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“Gas appliances”
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Can't accept
Heating, lighting and cooking equipment that uses gas is listed under items the charity cannot take.
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“Heating, lighting and cooking equipment that use gas or oil, knives and scissors, ovens, electrical items e.g. foot baths, sun lamps & shavers, electric blankets, power tools or food mixers without instructions, microwaves”
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Can't accept
St John's Hospice (London) category-wide rule
Applies to all electrical items
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“Electrical items”
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Can't accept
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“❌ Any Gas Appliance - Cookers”
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Can't accept
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“Gas cookers”
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Can't accept
Also excludes 'Gas and electric cookers (including oil / gas-fuelled range cookers, like AGA)'.
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“Gas appliances of any kind (mains or bottled)”
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Can't accept
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“Any gas appliances (mains or bottled)”
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Can't accept
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“Gas-operated appliances and goods”
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Can't accept
Also listed as 'Gas appliances, Oil lamps' under Furniture and Housewares.
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“Gas appliances (mains or bottles goods)”
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Gas cookers not accepted.
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“Items not accepted: Gas cookers and fitted electric ovens”
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St Raphael's Hospice category-wide rule
Stated on the Our Shops page for shop/Donation Centre drop-off. The separate Furniture Collections page still refers to collecting 'large items of furniture or electrical items' via its home-collection service, so this blanket refusal may be specific to walk-in shop donations rather than the large-item collection route.
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“We are no longer accepting any electrical items or pet toys, sorry for any inconvenience caused.”
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Can't accept
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“Gas appliances (mains or bottles goods)”
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Can't accept
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“gas or petrol appliances e.g. gas cookers, heaters or those designed to operate on bottled gas”
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Can't accept
Also excludes gas cookers and oil/gas AGAs.
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“Gas appliances (mains or bottled)”
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Can't accept
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“Gas appliances (mains or bottled).”
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Can't accept
'Gas appliances' is repeated separately under the Heating & Cooking heading, alongside 'Oil and gas AGAs', which are also listed as unable to be accepted.
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“Gas appliances and oil lamps”
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Can't accept
Listed under "Items that we cannot collect" (furniture collection service, van crews).
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“Gas cookers”
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Can't accept
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“Gas appliances”
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Can't accept
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“Oil or gas appliances”
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Can't accept
Covers cookers, gas fires and gas appliances.
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“Cookers, gas fires or gas appliances, oil burners, heaters, petrol lawn mowers”
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Can't accept
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“Any gas or petrol appliances”
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Can't accept
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“All gas appliances.”
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Check first
Not accepted unless brand new in original packaging; includes gas cookers and oil/gas Agas.
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“Gas appliances (mains or bottled goods)”
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Check first
Save the Children category-wide rule
Exception: accepted at selected stores — donors are told to check first.
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“We're unable to accept electrical goods (except in selected stores - please check first)”
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Strathcarron Hospice category-wide rule
Donors are asked to check with their local shop before donating electrical items.
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“Electricals (but please do check with your local shop before you donate these).”
Not mentioned in 73 charities' guidance
Absence from a charity's list doesn't mean they accept it — it just isn't singled out. Ask your local shop.
- Acorns Children's Hospice
- Age UK
- Ashgate Hospicecare
- Ayrshire Hospice
- Barnardo's
- Barnsley Hospice
- Blythe House Hospice
- Bolton Hospice
- Butterwick Hospice
- Children's Hospice South West
- Children's Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS)
- Crisis
- Derian House Children's Hospice
- Douglas Macmillan Hospice
- East Lancashire Hospice
- FARA Charity Shops
- Farleigh Hospice
- Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity
- Garden House Hospice Care
- Great Western Air Ambulance Charity
- Helen & Douglas House
- Highland Hospice
- Hope House & Ty Gobaith Children's Hospices
- Hospice in the Weald
- Hospice Isle of Man
- Hospice of the Valleys
- Keech Hospice Care
- Marie Curie
- Moya Cole Hospice
- Naomi House & Jack's Place
- North Devon Hospice
- North London Hospice
- Oxfam
- PDSA
- Pilgrims Hospices
- Primrose Hospice
- Prospect Hospice
- Rainbows Hospice for Children and Young People
- Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care
- Rotherham Hospice
- Royal Trinity Hospice (London)
- Saint Francis Hospice
- Samaritans
- Scope
- Sense Scotland
- Severn Hospice
- Shelter
- Shooting Star Children's Hospices
- St Catherine's Hospice (Crawley)
- St Catherine's Hospice (Lancashire)
- St David's Hospice Care
- St Luke's Cheshire Hospice
- St Luke's Hospice (Harrow & Brent)
- St Margaret's Hospice Care (Somerset)
- St Nicholas Hospice Care
- St Richard's Hospice
- St Vincent's Hospice
- St Wilfrid's Hospice
- The Kirkwood
- The Myton Hospices
- The Prince of Wales Hospice
- The Shakespeare Hospice
- Traid
- Weldmar Hospicecare
- Willen Hospice
- Willow Burn Hospice
- Willow Wood Hospice
- Willowbrook Hospice
- Wirral Hospice St John's
- Wisdom Hospice
- Woking & Sam Beare Hospices
- Woodgreen Pets Charity
- YMCA (England & Wales)