All items · Electrical
Oil, paraffin and petrol heaters
Also covers: oil-filled radiator, paraffin heater, kerosene heater
Can you donate oil, paraffin and petrol heaters to a UK charity shop? Usually not.
Why shops may refuse it
Fuel-burning and oil-filled heaters carry fire risks shops can't take on.
What to do instead
Drain and take to the council recycling centre — ask staff where fuel items go.
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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Ardgowan Hospice category-wide rule
Whole "electrical items" category listed as currently not accepted.
Their wording
“Currently we CANNOT accept: -Toys, large furniture or electrical items.”
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Can't accept
Also includes oil-filled radiators without a thermostat, oil and gas AGAs, and storage heaters (hardwired).
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“Oil heaters (mobile)”
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Can't accept
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“Oil heaters”
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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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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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Can't accept
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“Gas or Paraffin Heaters and Gas Canisters”
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Can't accept
Listed among items ellenor's free furniture collection service will not collect.
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“Oil heaters (mobile)”
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Can't accept
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“Oil heaters and lamps”
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Can't accept
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“Oil heaters”
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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
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“Gas & oil appliances”
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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.
Their wording
“Electrical items or any furniture.”
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Can't accept
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“Oil / Parafin Heaters”
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Can't accept
Refers to the oil-filled radiators named in this list.
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“Gas appliances, gas cylinders and oil-filled radiators”
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Can't accept
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“Oil heaters”
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Can't accept
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“Oil heaters (mobile)”
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Can't accept
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“Oil heaters”
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Can't accept
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“Oil heaters”
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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.
Their wording
“Unfortunately we are currently unable to accept any electrical items or suitcases.”
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Can't accept
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“Oil heaters, petrol or diesel fuelled items (safety reasons).”
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Oil filled radiators without a thermostat also listed as not accepted.
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“Oil heaters (mobile)”
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'Oil-filled radiators' not accepted.
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“Electrical goods: That haven’t been PAT tested, and excluded items like electric blankets, oil-filled radiators and petrol-fuelled garden tools.”
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Can't accept
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“Paraffin stoves”
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Can't accept
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“Oil heaters”
- Can't accept
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Can't accept
Guidance says "oil appliances" generally; closest existing item is oil heaters.
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“Gas or oil appliances, batteries”
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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”
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Can't accept
Heating equipment that uses oil 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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“Oil filled items – such as lamps or radiators”
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Can't accept
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“Heaters of any type (e.g., patio, electric, oil, petrol, or diesel)”
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Can't accept
Refers to oil-filled or mobile (portable) heaters.
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“Ovens with glass doors, oil-filled or mobile heaters”
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Can't accept
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
Includes pressure stoves or lamps designed to use oil.
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“oil appliances e.g. oil or paraffin heaters, pressure stoves or lamps designed to use oil”
- Can't accept
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Can't accept
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“Oil filled radiators”
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Can't accept
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“Oil or gas appliances”
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Can't accept
Covers oil burners and heaters.
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“Cookers, gas fires or gas appliances, oil burners, heaters, petrol lawn mowers”
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Check first
Oil filled radiators only accepted if fitted with a thermostat; mobile oil heaters not accepted
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“Oil filled radiators without thermostats”
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Not accepted unless brand new in original packaging; includes oil-filled radiators and hard-wired storage heaters.
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“Oil heaters (mobile)”
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Oil filled radiators only accepted if supplied with a thermostat; mobile oil heaters not accepted at all
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“Oil filled radiators (not supplied with a thermostat)”
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Oil-filled radiators are refused only when not supplied with a thermostat.
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“oil filled radiators (not supplied with a thermostat)”
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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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Oil-filled radiators only accepted with a working thermostat.
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“oil-filled radiators lacking thermostats”
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Only accepted if supplied with a thermostat.
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“Oil filled radiators that are not supplied with a thermostat”
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Oil filled radiators only with a thermostat; mobile oil heaters not accepted
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“Oil filled radiators (not supplied with a thermostat) Oil heaters (mobile)”
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Strathcarron Hospice category-wide rule
Donors are asked to check with their local shop before donating electrical items.
Their wording
“Electricals (but please do check with your local shop before you donate these).”
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Oil-filled radiators only accepted with a thermostat.
Their wording
“Oil filled radiators (not supplied with a thermostat).”
Not mentioned in 101 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
- Butterfly Hospice Trust
- Butterwick Hospice
- Children's Hospice South West
- Children's Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS)
- Crisis
- DEBRA
- Demelza Hospice Care for Children
- Derian House Children's Hospice
- Dogs Trust
- Douglas Macmillan Hospice
- Dr Kershaw's Hospice
- East Lancashire Hospice
- Emmaus
- FARA Charity Shops
- Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity
- 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
- Julia's House
- Katharine House Hospice (Stafford)
- Keech Hospice Care
- Marie Curie
- Martin House Children's Hospice
- Moya Cole Hospice
- Naomi House & Jack's Place
- Nightingale House Hospice
- North Devon Hospice
- North London Hospice
- Nottinghamshire Hospice
- Octavia Foundation
- Oxfam
- PDSA
- Pilgrims Hospices
- Primrose 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
- Samaritans
- Scope
- Sense Scotland
- Severn Hospice
- Shelter
- Shooting Star Children's Hospices
- Sobell House Hospice
- St Catherine's Hospice (Crawley)
- St Catherine's Hospice (Lancashire)
- St Columba's Hospice
- St David's Hospice Care
- St Giles Hospice
- St Helena Hospice
- St Luke's Cheshire Hospice
- St Luke's Hospice (Harrow & Brent)
- St Luke's Hospice Basildon & Thurrock
- St Margaret's Hospice Care (Somerset)
- St Michael's Hospice (North Hampshire)
- St Nicholas Hospice Care
- St Peter & St James Hospice
- St Richard's Hospice
- St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP)
- St Vincent's Hospice
- St Wilfrid's Hospice
- The Kirkwood
- The Myton Hospices
- The Prince of Wales Hospice
- The Shakespeare Hospice
- Traid
- Treetops Hospice Trust
- Trinity Hospice (Blackpool)
- Wales Air Ambulance
- Weldmar Hospicecare
- Wigan and Leigh Hospice
- 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)