What Should You Do with Your Old Toys?
Free UK doorstep toy collection
Give your old toys a new home – collected free from your door
As children grow up, they quickly outgrow their toys, leaving parents with figuring out what to do with these once-loved items. Instead of putting them in the bin, take a more sustainable approach to reduce waste by recycling and re-homing their old toys. You can make a significant impact by donating your pre-loved items in a sustainable way. The donated items will benefit our amazing charity partners and go into a loving home.
- 100% free
- Collected from your door
- Supports UK charities
Toy donations in numbers
Recycling and Re-Homing Toys: Creating a Greener Future
Every item thrown into a landfill adds to our planet’s growing waste problem. Plastic building blocks, especially, can take hundreds of years to decompose, releasing harmful chemicals into the soil and water. By recycling and re-homing the unused items, you can make a significant difference. Keep reading to find out why recycling and re-homing yours and your children’s unwanted, pre-loved household items are essential and how you can get involved.
200 tonnes
of old toys gathered and re-homed by us every year
£480k+
raised for our partner charities since 2021
100s of years
for plastic building blocks to break down in landfill
Toy clear out
Looking For a Charity That Collects Toys?
We are one of the largest toy recycling organisations in the country. We make it simple by collecting your unwanted toys directly from your doorstep. Every year, we gather and distribute around 200 tonnes of old toys, ensuring they find new homes where they can be enjoyed and played with once again. These are a wide range of items, from Lego, Duplo, Play Mobil building blocks to soft and cuddly teddy.
We collect directly from your home, or your booked collection address. Our day-to-day customers are parents having a declutter of their children’s teddies. In addition to our doorstep collections, we also provide services for nurseries, daycares, and primary schools that need to clear out or have surplus stock of toys they no longer need. We have no limit on the amount of toys we can collect. Just send us an email if it is going to be over 20 bags or boxes. Big clear outs are great!
Big clear outs are great! Got more than 20 bags or boxes? Just send us an email first.
What we take
What Toys Do We Collect?
We accept toys for any age range – they just need to be in working order.
- Soft/Cuddly Teddies
- Electronic Devices, Game Consoles, Video Games, Xbox, Playstation, Wii and more.
- Building Blocks, Lego, Duplo, Play Mobil
- Musical Toys
- Educational Toys
We collect a large range of items. There are a few items we do not collect, such as puzzles, board games, large or bulky items. We have a size guide of a bin line or medium size box for all donations.
How it works
How to Get Started on Decluttering and Organising
If your children have things that are no longer being played with, consider booking a doorstep collection for us. By doing so, you’ll give your old toys a new lease on life and help promote a more sustainable future.
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Sort into two piles
Sit with your children and create two piles: keep or donate. Even a couple of toys a month they’ve grown out of is worth donating instead of throwing away.
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Book a free collection
Choose a date that suits you online and pick the charity you’d like to support on the booking form.
3
Pack them up
Soft and cuddly toys can go into bags; hard toys that could break in transport are best in a box. Labelling them ‘Anglo Doorstep Collections’ helps our drivers.
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Leave them on your doorstep
Won’t be home on collection day? No problem – leave your bags or boxes outside and our team will pick them up.
Why donate toys
Why Recycle and Re-Home Your Toys?
Embrace this opportunity to declutter your home, reduce waste, and bring joy to other children by recycling and re-homing their Lego, barbie dolls, Play Mobil, and much more. Together, we can make a positive environmental impact.
Environmental Pollution
When these items end up on landfills, they harm the environment. Recycling these mean materials like plastic lego, metal cars, and fabric soft toys are used again, keeping them out of landfills. This helps save resources, cuts down pollution, and reduces the strain on the environment.
Preserve Our Resources
Making new toys uses up a lot of raw materials, energy, and water. By recycling toys, we reduce the need for these resources. Recycled toys can be turned into new products, which means we don’t need as many new materials or as much energy. This helps protect natural habitats and reduces the carbon footprint of production. There is always going to be a doll, lego pieces or a cuddly and soft toy that is sitting around not being used or played with, don’t let them take up room in your child’s room when you can donate them to help amazing charities.
Spread Joy to Others
Re-homing toys gives them a second life, letting children enjoy them again. Many families can’t afford new toys, and donated toys can make a big difference in their lives. Organisations like us gather and distribute used toys to homes where they will be loved again. Each year, they collect about 200 tonnes of old toys, making sure they bring happiness to new families.
Support Charities
When you donate toys through our service, you’re helping our partner charities. The money made from selling recycled toys gives these charities the funds they need to continue their work. Booking a toy collection with us creates a positive impact, supporting various charitable causes and strengthening community ties. You get to select a charity to support when filling out the booking form, after you will receive a booking confirmation which will tell you how much we have raised for that charity so far and information about the charity. For all details about our wonderful charities, click here.
Educate Children on Donating and Decluttering
Recycling and re-homing toys can teach children important lessons about looking after the environment and helping others. It shows them why it’s important to care for the planet and support people in need. By getting your children involved in sorting, tidying up, and donating toys, you are helping them learn values like generosity, responsibility, and sustainability that will last a lifetime. Sit with your children and create two piles. Keep or donate. Explain how beneficial donating is to them and then begin the process! Even if it is a couple of toys a month that they have grown out of or no longer enjoy playing with, donating is the way forward instead of throwing into landfill.
Your impact
What Happens to the Collected Toys?
All donated items in good condition are given new homes. Some stay in the UK, while others are sent to Africa and the Middle East. Many children in these regions have experienced conflict, and toys provide a welcome distraction and source of joy.
Despite the challenges, we work hard to ensure that all donated items find new homes. This effort brings happiness to children and helps create a more sustainable world for their future.
By choosing to recycle and re-home your toys, you reduce waste, conserve resources, and help raise vital funding for our partnered charities. Get involved today and make a positive impact on both the environment and the lives of children around the world. Help put your child’s pre-loved Lego, Duplo, Play Mobil, Barbie dolls and soft teddies back into circulation!
Reviews
What Parents Say About Us
Absolutely fantastic company and reliable. I’ve been using Anglo for over a year as have recently downsized. I was a bit worried that they wouldn’t be able to locate my new address so I emailed them before the collection day and had 20 boxes and bin liners collected on time yesterday. I also like the way they change charities every so often. – Ruth
Great service! Was clearing out my children’s playroom of all their old toys and it was a great way to donate and help their amazing charities. Highly recommend they accept most household items so i can book in regular slots for all my items to be collected. – Sarah
I was totally impressed with the service. It was easy to book a pickup online, the day before pickup a 2 hour pickup window was provided. On the day, I got a link to track the driver live and know exactly when he’d arrive. He arrived promptly to pick up my donation boxes. I highly recommend Anglo Doorstep Charity Collection and will definitely use this service again! – Anna
Want to read more on how we can collect toy donations from you? Click here!
Ready to clear out the toy box?
Book a free doorstep collection today and give your children’s pre-loved toys a second life. Got other items to donate too, like books or household items? We can collect them all in one go, free of charge.