Before you donate
Your quality donations help raise funds for crisis support and local services across the Northern Beaches and Lower North Shore.
To help us make the most of every donation, please only donate items that are clean, complete and in excellent, saleable condition.
We can’t accept items that are stained or soiled, damaged or missing parts, as these items need to be disposed of at a cost to Lifeline.
Donate goods to our Lifeline shops
Quality, saleable goods can be donated to our Lifeline shops during trading hours.
We also offer on-site assistance with donations from deceased estates or downsizing. Speak with your local Lifeline Shop Store Manager to find out more.
What our shops accept
- Women’s and men’s fashion
- Footwear, jewellery and accessories
- Vintage and designer fashion
- Homewares including kitchenware, diningware and decorator items
- Small furniture pieces
- Small donations of books, CDs, DVDs and vinyl records — up to one shopping bag.
- Computer games and gaming consoles in working condition
- Complete games and puzzles
Have more than one shopping bag of books? Please take larger donations to our Book Depot at 18 Roger Street, Brookvale.
What our shops can’t accept
- Very low-priced or low-quality goods
- Worn out, stained, damaged, or incomplete items
- Personalised items with names
- New or used underwear
- Used bedding, including pillows, doonas, and mattress covers
- Mattresses and cots
- Items requiring safety standard checks, such as mobility aids, baby equipment, bike helmets and electrical items
- Large furniture
- Glass furniture, including glass-topped coffee tables
- White goods, including ovens and dishwashers
- Children’s clothing, toys and baby equipment
Donate books to our Book Depot
Please bring larger book donations and other items for our Lifeline Book Fairs to our Book Depot.
Lifeline Book Depot
18 Roger St, Brookvale
Monday to Friday, 8:30am–1:30pm
Please note: book donations can’t be accepted at Lifeline Book Fairs. Please bring them to our Book Depot instead.
We accept the following items:
- Paperback books
- Hardback books
- CDs
- DVDs
- Puzzles and games
- Comics, graphic novels & Manga
- Magazines with a face value greater than $10 and in good condition
- Talking books on CD
We can’t accept the following:
- Reader’s Digest condensed books
- Law books older than 3 years
- Encyclopaedias
- Atlases older than 3 years
- Magazines with a face value under $10, in poor condition or more than two years old
- National Geographic magazines
- Telephone books or street directories
- Textbooks, unless recent and in mint condition
- Items that are yellowed, torn, mouldy, dirty, written in or defaced
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