Crawley Shoes, Trainers & Boots: Free Doorstep Pickup

Crawley is a town that never stops moving — families relocating for work near Gatwick, students settling into first flats around Three Bridges, and longstanding households in Ifield and Horley finally tackling the loft they’ve been avoiding for years. In all of these situations, footwear is one of the first things to pile up and one of the last things anyone thinks to deal with: trainers outgrown by a child, walking boots from a holiday that never happened again, heels worn once to a wedding. Anglo Doorstep Collections picks all of it up directly from your doorstep, completely free, anywhere across Crawley and the surrounding West Sussex villages we cover.

We work alongside Crawley Borough Council‘s wider approach to reducing what goes to landfill, and every pair of shoes collected here is a pair that gets a second life rather than sitting in a wheelie bin. Whether you’re mid-move, halfway through a spring clean, or finally clearing a wardrobe that’s been bulging for a decade, booking a collection takes a couple of minutes and the rest is handled for you.

Book a Free Collection

Free doorstep collection anywhere in Crawley, Horley, Gatwick, Three Bridges and Ifield
Your collection time slot is sent the evening before, so there’s no need to wait in all day
Shoes are reworn rather than landfilled, and the collection also raises funds for good causes

Common questions from Crawley households

Trainers, boots (Chelsea, UGGs, knee-high and walking boots), sandals, heels and wedges, smart work shoes, wellies and slippers are all welcome, for adults and children alike. The only requirement is that each pair is clean, dry and in a condition you’d happily pass to a friend — if you wouldn’t hand it over yourself, it’s best left out of the bag.

A bit of honest wear is fine, but the sole, upper and fastenings should still be sound enough for someone else to put them straight on and wear them out of the door. Because most footwear is glued together from layers of leather, rubber, foam and synthetic materials that can’t easily be pulled apart, badly worn-out pairs are very hard to recycle and are best disposed of another way rather than bagged for donation.

Yes — house moves and downsizing are exactly when footwear collections tend to come in largest, once people start clearing wardrobes, hallway cupboards and under-stairs storage all at once. Just bag or box the shoes separately from any other donations and leave them together in one spot so the driver can collect everything in a single visit.

You don’t need to be in. Leave the bag somewhere sheltered and out of view of the street, such as behind a bin store, under a porch or beside a side gate, and add a note in your booking telling the driver exactly where to look. We text your collection slot the evening before, so you’ll know roughly when to expect us and can put the bag out shortly beforehand if you’d rather not leave it out all day.

Absolutely — children’s feet grow so quickly that school shoes, trainers and wellies are often barely scuffed before they’re outgrown. Pop them in with the rest of your footwear donation, paired up, and they’ll go straight on to another child who can get proper wear out of them.

Keep each pair together by tying the laces or wrapping an elastic band round them, knock off any mud and let them dry fully before bagging. Pack footwear separately from clothing or other donations and label the bag “shoes” so it’s obvious to the driver at a glance — it also makes the handover much quicker if you’re leaving everything on the step rather than waiting in.

Yes — a footwear clear-out is often the moment people also sort out clothes, linen and towels, books, toys, household items and kitchenware, and we’re happy to take it all on the same visit. You can check the full list of towns we cover on our collections near you page, or browse everywhere we collect across the county on our collections across West Sussex page.

Worldwide, around 23.9 billion pairs of shoes were made in 2024 alone, and estimates suggest as much as 85% of the footwear thrown away in the UK ends up in landfill, with fewer than 5% of worn-out shoes recycled anywhere in the world — a direct result of how difficult it is to separate the leather, rubber, foam and synthetic layers they’re built from. Wearing a pair again, rather than letting it sit in a loft or go in the bin, is estimated to avoid around 14 kg of CO2 compared with manufacturing a new pair of running shoes from scratch (MIT, 2013), and across a town the size of Crawley — home to roughly 112,000 people, plus everyone nearby in Horley, Gatwick, Three Bridges and Ifield — those small decisions add up to a meaningful dent in landfill waste and the methane it produces. Buying new when a perfectly wearable pair is already sitting in a cupboard is rarely the better option for the planet or your pocket, and every pair you hand over also goes towards a large percentage of proceeds supporting good causes in the local community.