Sustainable Henfield has set up collection points, mainly in Henfield high street, where you can donate items for charity or local good causes. You can download and print the full list here, or keep scrolling to explore the details.
(Where the charity isn’t stated, our chosen charity is Henfield Haven).
| What? | Where? | What Happens to Donations? | |
| Plastic Milk Bottle Tops (not Arla) |  | Cornerweighs | Henfield has for many years supported the Springboard Project, a Horsham based Charity which helps people with disabilities achieve their potential and nurtures unemployed people of any age into work. The charity make money from the milk bottle tops we collect for them, which are made into other plastic products. |
| Natural Corks |  | Christinas Afternoon Tea Shop | Any natural corks (not plastic ones) can now be recycled via Recorked UK. They sell them and give a percentage of the profits to four charities. |
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Ring pulls from drinks cans |
| Henfield Flooring | The Purple Community Fund is an organisation which helps people living in the slums of Manilla, Philippines. They have set up health clinics, education programmes, employment for men and artisan groups for women. With the ring pulls they make handbags, clothing and accessories which they can sell to feed their families. Please collect ring pulls, just from drinks cans – like beer, coke or tonic cans. There is a jar in Henfield Flooring where you can add your contributions, and we will ensure they are sent out to the Philippines. |
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Hearing Aids |  |
Radmalls Funeral Service | WHO estimates that 360 million people worldwide have disabling hearing loss, but currently annual production of hearing aids meet less than 10% of global needs. So please if you have any old, damaged or unwanted hearing aids or in-date batteries or other hearing assistive equipment, please donate them and they will be sent to projects around the world. |
| Glasses/spectacles/Sunglasses and cases |  | Henfield Eyecare | Henfield Lions collect unwanted and damaged spectacles and sunglasses. These are sorted and those in good condition are sent to projects abroad in places such as: Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Nigeria and Nepal. Scrap metal from damaged glasses raises funds for eye related projects, and so far has raised £675k. |
| Bras |  |
Henfield Leisure Centre |
Against Breast Cancer runs a bra recycling scheme to fund breast cancer research. They also send bras to African countries such as Togo, Ghana and Kenya where bras are too expensive to produce locally |
| Unused cosmetics & hair, soap & sanitary products Unwanted gifts |  |
Pinks hair salon |
Henfield residents have been supporting the Oasis Project in Brighton via Pinks Hair Salon for a long time. The charity supports women who have drug and alcohol addictions, some maybe sex workers and some are homeless. They run therapy sessions for the entire family and crèche facilities for children. The donations also support their families, so items for children and men and are also needed. The organisation Easho supports this charity and people can donate money or buy wish list items here. |
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Printer cartridges |  | Relish Cafe |
These should be recycled as it reduces the amount of single use plastic, aluminium and steel sent to landfill, conserves natural resources and new energy to make new products. Money we receive for cartridges is donated to Henfield Haven. Please don’t give us toner cartridges as we cant sell them. |
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Postage stamps / stamp collections |  |
Christina’s Afternoon TeaShop | Do collect any stamps from letters / parcels. If you have a stamp collection that you no longer want, please donate it to us and we will sell it to make money for Henfield Haven. |
| Coins/notes (old or foreign) |  | RPS Food and Wine |
Many people have old coins/notes of English and foreign currencies at home which they don’t need. These can be donated and sold to make money for Henfield Haven |
| iPads & Tablets, and Laptops |  | All Things Covered | Any old electronic iPad, tablets or laptops you don’t want can be sold to raise money for Henfield Haven. We will wipe your hard drive before it is sold. |
| Cameras, tools, electrical items, TV’s, bikes, games, watches, furniture or anything that can be sold |  | Southdown Galleries or email Ruth Robotham | If you have any unwanted items, please donate them to us so we can sell them online to raise money for local good causes. Over 800 items recycled so far raising over £28,000 |
| Sleeping bags, tents, Men’s medium jeans T-shirts, new underpants Shoes/boots/ trainers size 7-9 Unused sun cream toothbrushes, soap Food: dried or tinned |  | Email Celia Emmott | Celia has been involved in Care4Calais which works with refugees in Calais, Brussels and Dunkirk. Volunteers go to areas daily where refugees gather to provide basic needs to their fellow human beings, who often arrive with no shelter or footwear and have inappropriate clothing. Daily meals are provided by the Refugee Community Kitchen run by volunteers. Please email Celia using the link in the previous column to let her know any items you can offer or any practical or financial help you can give. |
| Inhalers |  | Lloyds Pharmacy | NHS England and GSK fund the disposal of inhalers to reduce greenhouse gases which are given off by the propellant. 73 million inhalers are used in the UK every year. If every user returned them to a pharmacy for incineration, then it would save over 500,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent. Less environmentally harmful inhalers are now being issued, ask your GP if you can change over, if you have not already done so. |
| Household batteries |  | Sainsburys, Hamfelds, One Stop | Every year 600 million household batteries are thrown away. These batteries contain hazardous chemicals such as, lead, cadmium, zinc, lithium and mercury, and if put in household waste and then to landfill they leach into the ground and cause soil and water pollution. All businesses that sell batteries have a statutory duty to take them back. It costs the businesses nothing to send them off, to have raw materials recovered and used again. Please return batteries to shops. https://www.recycle-more.co.uk/recycling/batteries |
