Give Your Old Tools a New Life – We’ll Collect Them from Your Doorstep!
Free UK doorstep tool collection
Give your old tools a new life – collected free from your door
Got an old drill gathering dust? A wrench set you swore you’d use but never did? Instead of leaving tools in a forgotten drawer or garage corner, donate your old tools with us. We’ll collect your old tools right from your doorstep – and the money raised goes to charity!
- 100% free
- Hand, power & garden tools
- Supports UK charities
Tools in numbers
Why your old tools deserve a second life
Most of the tools in our sheds and garages spend their lives sitting still – and too many electricals end up in the bin.
12–13
minutes – the often-quoted lifetime use of the average power drill
880m
unused electrical items are hoarded in UK homes
103k
tonnes of electricals are thrown away in UK bins every year
+33%
rise in the electricals we buy since 2019
22%
of the world’s e-waste is properly collected and recycled
£480k+
raised for charity by Anglo Doorstep Collections since 2021
Sources: Nesta, Material Focus (2024), Global E-waste Monitor 2024, Anglo Doorstep Collections.
What we take
What Tools Can We Collect?
We collect all sorts of hand and power tools – if it fits in your toolbox, we can probably take it! We can’t accept large tools, so that chainsaw you once thought was a “good investment” will have to stay put. Here are some of the things we collect:
- Hammers
- Screwdrivers
- Power drills
- Levels
- Clamps
- Jigsaws
- Circular saws
- Hand saws
- Wrenches / spanners
- Tape measures
- Chisels
- Pliers & more…
Safety first: if you’re donating tools with blades or sharp edges, please make sure the sharp parts are safely covered – our collectors would love to keep all their fingers intact! See our full list of items we can collect.
Garden tools
Clearing Out Your Garden Tools
Looking for somewhere to donate old garden tools? We can help with a bit of spring decluttering too. We can’t collect large tools like lawnmowers or long-handled rakes, but we’re happy to take smaller items off your hands:
- Hand trowels
- Hand forks
- Hand cultivators
- Bulb planters
- Dibbers
- Secateurs / pruning shears
- Garden snips
- Hand weeders
- Small watering cans
- Garden gloves
- Small garden ornaments e.g. gnomes
How it works
Why Donate Your Tools With Us?
Anglo Doorstep Collections is the easiest way to donate your unwanted things. Book a collection date with us online and we’ll collect right from your doorstep – just put everything in a box or bag.
1
Book online
Book a collection online – enter your name, email and address and we’ll show you the dates we collect in your area.
2
Choose your charity
Select one of our partner charities to support. Can’t decide? Leave it blank and we’ll split the donation between them all.
3
Pack your donations
You can pack your donations in any bag or medium-sized box. Cover any blades or sharp edges safely!
4
Leave them out
Our collectors will happily pick up all the donations from your doorstep – or knock and collect them directly from you.
Your impact
Recycling and Re-homing Tools: Making a Difference
Household tools are essentials many of us take for granted in the UK, but many families around the world can’t afford them new. Your second-hand donations make them affordable and accessible – and keep them out of UK landfill.
The money raised from selling them affordably goes to our amazing partner charities, so your donation’s impact reaches as many people as possible.
£480,000+ raised for charity since 2021
Our partners
Supporting Our Partner Charities
When you book, choose the charity you’d like your tool donation to support – or plant trees with Ecologi:
Coverage
Where We Can Collect Tools From
Our free doorstep collection service covers most of England & South Wales. In some postcode areas we only cover major towns and cities – if you’re in a partially covered area, enter your postcode in our booking form to check. We recommend booking around a week in advance, as slots fill up quickly! Here are some of the main areas we cover:
Ready to clear out the shed?
Book your free doorstep collection today, choose a charity to support and give your old tools a new life.