Useful Donations for York Road Project
Please see our list below for useful items that we usually need. This list isn’t exhaustive, but we hope it helps with gathering some ideas.
We do like to promote freedom of choice to our client group: especially as this is a difficult time in their life and many other decisions are taken away from them. Clothing choice gives someone a real sense of identity, so clothing vouchers for shops such as Primark are really useful in order to empower our clients to choose what they would like to wear.
Vouchers in general are really helpful: ie vouchers for Morrisons, Greggs, Costa and local independent coffee and cafes allow us to buy important food items as and when needed.
Most useful donated clothing items:
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- New sleeping bags
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- Men’s pants
Most useful food items:
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- Pot noodles / instant pasta or rice meals – always very popular!
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- Sandwich spreads e.g. paste,
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- Rice pudding / custard / tinned fruit / instant desserts
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- Breakfast cereal
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- Canned ready meals e.g. hotdogs, meatballs, stews, curry, bolognaise, tinned sausages, corned beef, tinned ham, tuna
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- Meal sauces – passata
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- Condiments such as ketchup/mayonnaise/brown sauce
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- Spices and spice meal packets
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- Baked beans / tinned spaghetti
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- Basic tinned vegetables e.g. potatoes, carrots, peas, sweetcorn
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- ‘Treat’ food e.g. biscuits, chocolate, crisps, cakes
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- Selection boxes
Most useful drink items:
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- Coffee, drinking chocolate, sugar
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- UHT milk
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- Squash
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- Small juice cartons
Most useful toiletries:
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- Shampoo
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- Shower gel
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- Hand soap
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- Deodorant
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- Razors
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- Gift packs men and ladies
Please do not include:
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- Anything out of date or very near to out of date
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- Anything perishable / fresh
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- Anything homemade
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- Mixed pulses e.g. lentils, chickpeas, kidney beans, cannellini beans, haricot beans, soup
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- We are not accepting pasta at this time
Thank you!!!