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DVDs and videos without a BBFC rating
Also covers: unrated dvd, home recording, recorded vhs
Can you donate DVDs and videos without a BBFC rating to a UK charity shop? No.
Why shops may refuse it
Home-recorded or unclassified video generally cannot be resold.
What to do instead
Home recordings can't be passed on at all — recycle the cases and ask a household waste recycling centre how it handles tapes and discs.
Charity by charity
36 mentions-
Can't accept
Also home recorded computer games/software on recordable media.
Their wording
“Home recorded DVDs, video and audio tapes”
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Can't accept
R18 material and anything not BBFC-classified.
Their wording
“Any DVDs and videos not legally classified by the British Board of Film Classification”
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Can't accept
Their wording
“Home-recorded videos, CDs, DVDs, software, or games”
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Can't accept
Their wording
“Home recorded DVDs, videos and audio tapes”
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Can't accept
Also excludes non region 0/2 DVDs, R18-rated DVDs and home-recorded software
Their wording
“Home recorded DVDs, video and audio tapes”
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Can't accept
Listed among items ellenor's free furniture collection service will not collect (home-recorded material carries no BBFC rating).
Their wording
“Home recorded DVDs, video and audio tapes”
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Can't accept
Home-recorded/unrated discs.
Their wording
“Home recorded computer games, DVDs, video and audio tapes”
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Can't accept
Officially released books/CDs/LPs/DVDs are accepted; only home-recorded media is refused.
Their wording
“Books, CDs, LPs and DVDs (we cannot accept home-recorded media)”
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Can't accept
Homemade recordings would lack an official BBFC rating.
Their wording
“counterfeit or homemade films and music”
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Can't accept
Guidance excludes all DVDs without distinguishing BBFC-rated from unrated discs.
Their wording
“CDs and DVDs”
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Can't accept
Their wording
“Any DVD's not classified by the British Board of Film Classification – including DVD's missing classification labels.”
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Can't accept
Their wording
“Videos, CDs & DVDs which aren’t legally classified by the British Board of Film Classification”
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Can't accept
Their wording
“CDs/DVDs & tapes”
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Can't accept
Their wording
“DVD and Videos without the necessary age rating”
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Can't accept
Also excludes home-recorded computer games/software.
Their wording
“Home recorded DVDs”
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Can't accept
Also excludes home recorded computer games and software
Their wording
“Home recorded DVDs, video and audio tapes”
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Can't accept
Their wording
“Any DVDs and videos not legally classified by the British Board of Film Classification (legal reasons and undesirability). Includes DVDs missing classification labels.”
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Can't accept
Their wording
“home-recorded DVDs, video and audio tapes”
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Can't accept
Their wording
“Home-recorded media”
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Can't accept
Their wording
“adult or explicit material”
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Can't accept
US/non-BBFC-rated import DVDs; home recorded DVDs and tapes are also listed as not accepted.
Their wording
“R rated DVDs”
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Can't accept
Home-recorded DVDs/CDs not accepted.
Their wording
“Software and tech: Home-recorded DVDs/CDs, used laptops, USBs, and hard drives (unless new and sealed).”
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Can't accept
Home-recorded/unlabelled media across formats.
Their wording
“Home recorded DVDs, computer games, video, audio tape, CDs etc”
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Can't accept
Also excludes home recorded computer games/software on recordable CDs/DVDs
Their wording
“Home recorded video and audio tapes / DVDs”
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Can't accept
Their wording
“DVDs without a British Board of Film classification, video tapes”
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Can't accept
Also excludes home recorded software
Their wording
“Home recorded DVDs, video and audio tapes”
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Can't accept
Home recorded DVDs (which would lack a BBFC rating) listed under items the charity cannot take.
Their wording
“Home recorded DVDs, computer games & software, hard drives”
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Can't accept
Their wording
“❌ CDs, DVDs and VHS video cassettes”
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Can't accept
DVDs without official age (BBFC) ratings.
Their wording
“VCR videos or DVDs without official age ratings”
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Can't accept
Their wording
“Home recorded DVDs, video and audio tapes”
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Can't accept
Also home-recorded software
Their wording
“Home recorded DVDs, video and audio tapes”
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Can't accept
Their wording
“recordings made at home for personal use, whether CDs, DVDs, videos or cassettes”
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Can't accept
Their wording
“Home recorded DVDs, video and audiotapes, computer games and software on recordable CDs and DVDs.”
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Can't accept
Their wording
“Home recorded DVDs, video and audio tapes”
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Can't accept
Personal (home-recorded, unclassified) DVDs/CDs not accepted.
Their wording
“All VHS videos, or pirate/personal DVDs /CDs”
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Can't accept
Their wording
“DVDs/videos without legal classification.”
Not mentioned in 117 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
- Blythe House Hospice
- Bolton Hospice
- 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
- Douglas Macmillan Hospice
- Dr Kershaw's Hospice
- East Lancashire Hospice
- Eden Valley Hospice and Jigsaw, Cumbria's Children's Hospice
- Emmaus
- FARA Charity Shops
- Farleigh Hospice
- Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity
- Garden House Hospice Care
- Great Oaks Hospice
- Greenwich & Bexley Community 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 Valleys
- Jersey Hospice Care
- Julia's House
- Katharine House Hospice (Stafford)
- Katharine House Hospice, Banbury
- Keech Hospice Care
- 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
- Phyllis Tuckwell
- 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
- Salvation Army (SATCoL)
- Samaritans
- Save the Children
- Scope
- Sense Scotland
- Severn Hospice
- Shooting Star Children's Hospices
- Sobell House Hospice
- St Catherine's Hospice (Crawley)
- St Catherine's Hospice (Lancashire)
- St Christopher's Hospice
- St Columba's Hospice
- St Cuthbert's Hospice
- St David's Hospice Care
- St Helena Hospice
- St John's Hospice (London)
- St Luke's Cheshire Hospice
- St Luke's Hospice (Harrow & Brent)
- St Luke's Hospice Plymouth
- St Luke's Hospice, Sheffield
- St Margaret's Hospice Care (Somerset)
- St Michael's Hospice (North Hampshire)
- St Nicholas Hospice Care
- St Peter & St James 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 Kirkwood
- The Myton Hospices
- The Prince of Wales Hospice
- The Shakespeare Hospice
- Traid
- Treetops Hospice Trust
- Trinity Hospice (Blackpool)
- Tynedale Hospice at Home
- Wakefield Hospice
- Wales Air Ambulance
- 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)