DON'T THROW IT AWAY!

The following organisations are happy to receive the goods you no longer want. Please call them for details. If you would like to add your organisation or make amendments, send details marked for Don't Throw It Away, Bulletin page.

Aluminium Cans (loose) and tin foil (bagged up) Oxfam, King Street, Twickenham.

Accessories For Marie Cure Cancer Care. Take to the shops at 68 Broad Street, Teddington, and 1 Lichfield Terrace, Sheen Road, Richmond.

Badges Old Boys' Brigade badges for 2 Feltham Company. 8890 2777; all kinds, cloth or metal for 8 Twickenham Scouts 8898 7930; badges for Guide Dogs for the Blind Association Send to Mrs Diana Ashton, 66 Highbank, Roe Lee, Blackburn, Lancs. BB1 9SX.

Books For Oxfam, 46 King Street Twickenham, 8892 4605. For Barnados, 72 Turnham Green Terrace, Chiswick 8994-9931. For Marie Cure Cancer Care. Take to the shops at 68 Broad Street, Teddington, and 1 Lichfield Terrace, Sheen Road, Richmond.

Bric a brac (good condition, no jumble) For Oxfam, 46 King Street Twickenham, 8892 4605. For Barnados, 72 Turnham Green Terrace, Chiswick 8994-9931. For RSPCA, Twickenham and Barnes Branch 8876 5990. For Marie Cure Cancer Care. Take to the shops at 68 Broad Street, Teddington, and 1 Lichfield Terrace, Sheen Road, Richmond.

Cards Cigarette, tea and similar cards and picture postcards for 8 Twickenham Scouts 8898 7930. Postcards for St Leonard's Parish Church, The Parish Office, 147 Heston Road, Heston. TW5 0RD. 8570 2288.

Cassettes and CDS For Marie Cure Cancer Care. Take to the shops at 68 Broad Street, Teddington, and 1 Lichfield Terrace, Sheen Road, Richmond.

China For Oxfam, 46 King Street Twickenham, 8892 4605.

Clothes Old Boys' Brigade uniform for 2 Feltham Company. 8890 2777; children's clothes for Shooting Star Children's Hospice. Leave at their shops at 17 High Street, Whitton 8893 4938 and 173a High Street, Hampton Hill 8941 6306. For Barnados, 72 Turnham Green Terrace, Chiswick 994-9931. For Marie Curie Cancer Care. Take to the shops at 68 Broad Street, Teddington, and 1 Lichfield Terrace, Sheen Road, Richmond.

Computers and accessories Donate a PC at www.donateapc.org.uk free online matching service for individuals and organisations to get unwanted hardware to UK charities, not for profit organisations and educational establishments. To Computer Aid International 7281 0091, www.computeraid.org, minimum specification Pentium II; To Bytes Twice - at SWAP, 74 Kirkgate, Leeds, Yorks. LS2 7DJ. 0113 243 8777. The Waste Watch Wasteline for information on recycling, reusing and reducing waste: 0870 243 0136. web: http:llwww.wastewatch.org.uk email: info@wastewatch.org uk.

Spent computer inkjet and laser cartridges can be sent to Shooting Star Children's Hospice. Take to their offices at Kathryn House, The Mews, 53 High Street, Hampton Hill 8481 8180; for health charity Project Hope UK. Any make except Epsom and please send in a plastic sandwich/freezer type bag, posted to Accutecc, Hope Appeal, Freepost (ANG 2044), Harlow, CM20 2YF; for the RNIB. Contact Gareth Edwards of the Royal National Institute for the Blind on 01388 517087. Home users can also support the scheme by taking Freepost bags, suitable for small quantities of inkjet cartridges; for the British Lung Foundation. Call 01932 722085 for free collection; for the Life Opportunities Trust (LOT) for adults with learning disabilities, which also wants mobile phones. Contact 8847 2172 or 07876 366 025; cartridges collected for cash by The British Institute for Brain Injured Children. British Institute for Brain Injured Children, Knowle Hall, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA7 8PJ. 01278 684 060, fax 01278-685 573 www.bibic.org.uk; for The Karen Hill Tribes Trust, raising funds to provide remote hill villages in northern Thailand with clean water. Contact Soroptimists of Kingston & Richmond District via Sue Waters 8891 4047 or email sue@positivesolutions.co.uk, also mobile phones.

Currency Foreign currency and obsolete sterling for Shooting Star Children's Hospice. Take to their offices at Kathryn House, The Mews, 53 High Street, Hampton Hill 8481 8180 or to their shops at 17 High Street, Whitton 8893 4938 and 173a High Street, Hampton Hill 8941 6306. Foreign money for Guide Dogs for the Blind Association Send to Mrs Diana Ashton, 66 Highbank, Roe Lee, Blackburn, Lancs. BB1 9SX; foreign and all obsolete sterling currency for Cancer Research UK. Enquiries 8892 4826 or 7121 6608 or take to Richmond branches of Lloyds TSB, NatWest banks and Twickenham NatWest Bank. Foreign currency for the Ockenden Venture which helps work with refugees and displaced people. They are based in Woking contact Ros Taylor on 01483 772012. Coins to branches of Boots. For The Royal Life Saving Society UK Send to Nigel Jackson, The Royal Life Saving Society UK, River House, High Street, Broom, Warwicks. B50 4HN. Coins and banknotes for 8 Twickenham Scouts 8898 7930. Obsolete sterling and foreign money to Children's Kidney Trust, Freepost, Bromley, BR1 1BR. 8460 8090. Coins for Teddington Memorial Hospital 8408 8210.

Furniture Project based in Isleworth. Collection can be arranged, Monday-Friday, 9.30am-4.30pm. Contact 020 8744 0615.

Furniture Scheme is a separate charity for Richmond upon Thames based in Twickenham. Furniture in good condition is made available at minimal cost to people in need. Collections of donations are made on a regular basis. Please call 020 8755 4665.

For the national Furniture Reuse Network 48-54 West Street, St Philips, Bristol. BS2 0BL.0117 954 3571, fax 0117 954 3570. www.frn.org.uk.

Glassware For Oxfam, 46 King Street Twickenham, 8892 4605.

Jewellery For the The Royal National Lifeboat Institution Unwanted or damaged items, such as good quality rings of all kinds, brooches, bracelets, chains and watches, gold and silver items, war medals and memorabilia, decorations and badges. Send to RNLI Headquarters, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset, BH15 1HZ, marked for attention of RE Norgrove. For Oxfam, 46 King Street Twickenham, 8892 4605.

Mobile telephones Take to the Richmond upon Thames Waste and Recycling Centre, Townmead, Kew. Recycling Office, 8891 7329 or email: recycling@richmond.gov.uk; take to Body Shops for Stop the Violence at Home campaign; to Fonebak. Unwanted mobile phones can be dropped in at Currys, Dixons, The Link and PC World stores, or at the retail outlets of the mobile operators; take to branches of Oxfam for Life Opportunities Trust (LOT). Contact 8847 2172 or 07876 366 025. LOT supports adults with learning disabilities; for East Sheen based National Missing Persons Helpline. Please send them to NMPH, Roebuck House, 284 Upper Richmond Road West, London SW14 7JE; ; for Hounslow Shopmobility in the Treaty Centre. Take to level 6, Treaty Centre car park, High Street, Hounslow. TW3 1ES. Hounslow Shopmobility 8570 3343; for The Karen Hill Tribes Trust, raising funds to provide remote hill villages in northern Thailand with clean water. Contact Soroptimists of Kingston & Richmond District via Sue Waters 8891 4047 or email sue@positivesolutions.co.uk, also used ink cartridges.

Records For Barnados, 72 Turnham Green Terrace, Chiswick 8994-9931.

Silver For Oxfam, 46 King Street Twickenham, 8892 4605.

Soft furnishings and linen. For Oxfam, 46 King Street Twickenham, 8892 4605.

Spectacles Old and unwanted pairs for Specsavers Opticians, Hounslow for Vision Aid Overseas. For Mission for Vision (working Africa), 11 Station Approach, Shepperton TW17 8AR. 01932 226789.

Stamps New and unused stamps to help offlay costs at the Mulberry Centre cancer support centre. Send to the fundraising department, West Middlesex Hospital, Twickenham Road, Isleworth. TW7 6AE. For Teddington Memorial Hospital 8408 8210. For 8th Twickenham Scouts 8898 7930. For the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). Details 01634 830 888. New, used, British, foreign for Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB), RNIB Stamp Appeal, PO Box 6198, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 9XT; Postage stamps for Richmond upon Thames branch of the Multiple Sclerosis Society. Send to Simon Cave, 34 Ham Common. TW10 7JG. Old and/or foreign stamps especially appreciated.

Toys For Shooting Star Children's Hospice. Leave at their shops at 17 High Street, Whitton 8893 4938 and 173a High Street, Hampton Hill 8941 6306.

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