Mid Sussex Council charity collections are up and running — and if you live anywhere across the Mid Sussex Council area, from Haywards Heath and East Grinstead to Burgess Hill, Crawley Down or the many villages that dot the district, a completely free doorstep pick-up of unwanted reusable items is available to you right now. Anglo Doorstep Collections operates across this area, collecting directly from residents’ homes at no charge, so you never need to travel to a charity shop or wait for a special collection event. Arrange a pick-up, leave your bags outside your front door, and we take care of the rest.
Yes, completely. Anglo Doorstep Collections charges residents nothing to schedule or complete a collection. The service is funded through the reuse marketplace — items collected go on to find new homes, generating value that keeps the service free for households across Mid Sussex Council.
No. Simply leave your packed bags or boxes outside your property — on the doorstep, beside the gate or at another agreed spot — before the driver arrives. There is no need to take time off work or rearrange your day.
Everything is handled online. Use the booking link on this page, select a convenient collection date, confirm your address, and pack your items ready. It takes only a few minutes.
Collected goods are routed into active reuse markets — meaning they reach people who will genuinely use them rather than going to landfill. A proportion of proceeds also supports charitable causes and community projects, so your unwanted jackets, books or kitchenware create real benefit well beyond Mid Sussex Council.
Mid Sussex Council sits within a county that takes its environmental commitments seriously — but even here, reusable household goods routinely end up in waste streams when their owners simply lack a convenient way to pass them on. That is precisely the gap Anglo Doorstep Collections fills. Rather than your unwanted clothing, footwear or household items heading to disposal, a quick online booking means they leave your doorstep and re-enter the reuse economy instead.
Reuse sits above recycling in the waste hierarchy because it extends the useful life of a product and avoids the energy cost of breaking it down and reprocessing it. When Mid Sussex Council residents choose to arrange a free doorstep donation collection rather than binning items, they are making the highest-value environmental choice available to them. Coats still in good condition, pairs of shoes barely worn, children’s toys that have simply been outgrown — all of these have a second life waiting for them.
We accept a wide range of everyday reusable household items. Below are the eight headline categories; we also collect additional items within these categories — see the full list further down the page. A few concrete examples: bundled-up hoodies, a stack of paperbacks, children’s board books, paired trainers, or a bag of bric-a-brac from a clear-out — all welcomed. Please check the categories carefully and do not include items outside them.
Tops, trousers, dresses, jackets, suits, uniforms and more
All paired adult and children’s shoes, boots and trainers
Paperbacks, hardbacks, children’s books and textbooks
Small toys, action figures, puzzles and children’s games
Handbags, rucksacks, tote bags and holdalls
Scarves, belts, hats, jewellery and ties
Music CDs, DVDs and video games in their cases
Clean towels, bed linen, tablecloths and similar textiles
As well as the items above, Mid Sussex Council residents can also donate:
Across the UK, Anglo Doorstep Collections works in confirmed partnership with over 67 local authorities — including councils in the South East such as Crawley Borough Council, Horsham District Council and Chichester District Council — providing WasteDataFlow-ready reuse reporting that helps those councils better understand and evidence the reuse activity taking place in their areas. That reporting infrastructure supports reuse performance monitoring, waste prevention initiatives, circular economy objectives and environmental reporting.
Anglo Doorstep Collections collects across the Mid Sussex Council area and provides data-ready reuse reporting in line with WasteDataFlow requirements, meaning the reuse activity generated by Mid Sussex Council residents contributes to a clearer picture of waste prevention locally. Every tonne diverted from disposal and every household engaged adds up — and nationally the network delivers over 500,000 household collections per year, rehomes more than 12,000 tonnes of goods, has raised over £460,000 for charitable causes and has contributed to the planting of over 62,000 trees through environmental initiatives.
Within the waste hierarchy, reuse ranks higher than recycling — extending a product’s life is always preferable to breaking it down and reforming it into something new. For Mid Sussex Council residents, that principle translates into a straightforward personal action: arrange a free doorstep collection of unwanted but reusable items rather than putting them in the bin.
Choosing reuse helps reduce raw resource demand, lowers associated carbon emissions and supports a circular economy where goods circulate for longer. Blouses, cardigans, children’s shoes, household towels, stacked DVDs or a box of books from a shelf clearance — all of these have genuine value to someone else and all of them can leave your doorstep without any effort or cost on your part.
Mid Sussex Council charity collections are free, straightforward and available to every household across the district. Pack your unwanted reusable items, choose a date and leave the rest to us — your goods find new homes, charitable causes benefit, and nothing needlessly reaches landfill.