{"id":1249,"date":"2025-12-04T14:46:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:37:00","slug":"donate-your-preloved-items-this-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2025\/12\/04\/donate-your-preloved-items-this-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Donate your preloved items this Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready for the festive season with a pre-Christmas clear-out! Donating your unwanted items to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhf.org.uk\/\"><strong>British Heart Foundation <\/strong><\/a>is a simple way to make space at home <em>and<\/em> support life-saving heart research.<\/p>\n<p>Your preloved items could become someone else\u2019s perfect gift. From books and clothes to games and gadgets, almost anything in good condition can help raise vital funds for people living with heart and circulatory diseases.<\/p>\n<p>December is the ideal time to declutter before the celebrations begin. And once Christmas is over, the British Heart Foundation is also happy to accept any unwanted gifts &#8211; duplicate books, clothes that don\u2019t fit, unopened Secret Santa gifts, and more.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What you can donate<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Clothing<\/li>\n<li>Accessories<\/li>\n<li>Jackets<\/li>\n<li>Shoes<\/li>\n<li>Books<\/li>\n<li>Video games<\/li>\n<li>Collectables (stamps, coins, banknotes, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>What you can&#8217;t donate<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Duvets<\/li>\n<li>Pillows<\/li>\n<li>Broken or dirty items<\/li>\n<li>Food<\/li>\n<li>Knives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1255 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/files\/2025\/12\/Dont-need-it-donate-it-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>How to donate<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>On campus:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Drop your clothes, shoes, books and homeware items into one of the eight <a href=\"https:\/\/media.www.kent.ac.uk\/se\/51541\/CompoundMapCanterburyV15May20253.pdf\"><strong>British Heart Foundation donation bins<\/strong><\/a> across the Canterbury campus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>At a local British Heart Foundation store:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Canterbury Home and Fashion Store<\/strong>, Unit 1, Marshwood Retail Park, Canterbury, CT1 1DX<\/li>\n<li><strong>Canterbury St George\u2019s Street BHF Shop<\/strong>, 12 St George\u2019s Street, Canterbury, CT1 2SR<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1256 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/files\/2025\/12\/Dont-need-it-donate-it-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Why Support the British Heart Foundation?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Donating your preloved items does more than just clear space &#8211; it helps save lives.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the UK, someone dies from heart or circulatory disease every three minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Every donation, every pound raised, and every minute of support helps fund research that makes a difference.<\/li>\n<li>British Heart Foundation saved 14,000 tonnes of clothing from landfill in one year, helping reduce waste and protect the environment.<\/li>\n<li>Items that can\u2019t be sold in shops are reused or responsibly recycled wherever possible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready for the festive season with a pre-Christmas clear-out! Donating your unwanted items to the British Heart Foundation is a simple way to make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2025\/12\/04\/donate-your-preloved-items-this-christmas\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52170,"featured_media":1254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[312383,223280],"tags":[143731,1366,14562,15508,37390,73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}