All items · Safety equipment
Vehicle seat belts
Also covers: seat belt, seat belts, car belt
Can you donate vehicle seat belts to a UK charity shop? Usually not.
Why shops may refuse it
Vehicle seat belts are safety-critical components with an unknown history, and at least one tracked charity explicitly refuses them.
What to do instead
A licensed vehicle dismantler or specialist vehicle reuse organisation is a better route; do not pass on a belt from a crashed vehicle.
Charity by charity
12 mentions-
Can't accept
Acorns Children's Hospice category-wide rule
General safety equipment not accepted, bike/riding helmets given as examples.
Their wording
“Safety equipment such as bike helmets or riding helmets”
- Can't accept
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Can't accept
Ashgate Hospicecare category-wide rule
Applies to all safety equipment items
Their wording
“Safety or cycle helmets and safety equipment”
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Can't accept
Claire House Children's Hospice category-wide rule
General sports safety equipment not accepted.
Their wording
“Sports safety equipment (helmets, etc.)”
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Can't accept
Nightingale House Hospice category-wide rule
Stated as a whole item type they don't accept.
Their wording
“Personal safety equipment”
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Can't accept
Queenscourt Hospice category-wide rule
Applies to all safety equipment items
Their wording
“Any form of Safety Equipment.”
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Can't accept
St Andrew's Hospice (Lanarkshire) category-wide rule
A standalone catch-all on their 'cannot accept' list, alongside itemised refusals of helmets and climbing equipment — treated as covering all safety equipment, including items not named individually.
Their wording
“Safety equipment”
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Can't accept
St Luke's Hospice Plymouth category-wide rule
Blanket catch-all in the 'What can't St Luke's accept?' list, in addition to specifically named helmets and buoyancy aids.
Their wording
“Any safety equipment”
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Can't accept
St Nicholas Hospice Care category-wide rule
Listed as a blanket refusal in addition to crash/cycle/riding helmets named separately.
Their wording
“safety equipment”
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Can't accept
The same source wording also covers child car and booster seats.
Their wording
“car seats, booster seats and seat belts”
- Check first
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Check first
Woking & Sam Beare Hospices category-wide rule
Applies to used safety equipment only.
Their wording
“Used safety equipment”
Not mentioned in 141 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
- Ardgowan Hospice
- Ayrshire Hospice
- Barnardo's
- Barnsley Hospice
- Blythe House Hospice
- Bolton Hospice
- British Heart Foundation
- British Red Cross
- Butterfly Hospice Trust
- Butterwick Hospice
- Cancer Research UK
- Children's Hospice South West
- Children's Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS)
- Cornwall Hospice Care
- Cransley Hospice Trust
- Crisis
- DEBRA
- Demelza Hospice Care for Children
- 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 at Home Carlisle and North Lakeland
- 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
- Lewis-Manning Hospice Care
- 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
- North Devon Hospice
- North London Hospice
- Nottinghamshire Hospice
- Octavia Foundation
- Overgate Hospice
- Oxfam
- PDSA
- Pendleside Hospice
- Phyllis Tuckwell
- 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)
- Save the Children
- Scope
- Sense Scotland
- Severn Hospice
- Shaw Trust
- Shelter
- Shooting Star Children's Hospices
- Sobell House Hospice
- Southern Hospice Group
- Springhill Hospice
- 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 (Harrow & Brent)
- St Luke's Hospice Basildon & Thurrock
- St Luke's Hospice, Sheffield
- St Margaret's Hospice Care (Somerset)
- St Mary's Hospice
- St Michael's Hospice (North Hampshire)
- 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
- St Wilfrid's Hospice
- Strathcarron Hospice
- 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
- Wisdom Hospice
- Woodgreen Pets Charity
- YMCA (England & Wales)