Recycle !

You may not want Them - but Someone Needs Them

All donated items will be put to good use - and someone somewhere will be very happy

Results Now In

66 Bikes, 50+ Mobility Aids, 20 Sewing Machines, 

a Shedload of Tools, 100+ spectacles, 50+ Trainers, 

5 Banana Boxes of educational materials.

A marvellous result - thanks to the generosity of the people of Ilkley - these items will change lives.

Recycling Bicycles, Wheelchairs Etc

Main Car Park, llkley

Saturday 5th October 2024

10am to 4pm

We will be collecting...

• unwanted bicycles - any size, any condition, including incomplete, parts, spares etc
• wheelchairs and mobility aids - any condition including crutches, walking frames, rollators etc
• Spectacles - any condition, any strength
• Hand Tools and Workshop Tools ( Not Gardening ! )
• Sewing Machines
• Unwanted/Outgrown Trainers
• LATE ADDITION - School Equipment for Gambia

Bicycles

Bicycles will be collected by the Margaret Carey Foundation - based in Keighley - who have set up a number of workshops in prisons where bicycles can be refurbished by prisoners - learning a skill, using their time productively and giving something back to society.

The refurbished items are then donated onwards sometimes in the UK, but in the case of robust and serviceable items, onwards into the 3rd world.

Wheelchairs and Mobility Aids

Wheelchairs will also be refurbished by the Margaret Carey Foundation  in prison workshops, and then donated to people in 3rd world countries who desperately need them , but can't afford them.

Other mobility aids - crutches, walking frames etc - will be donated to PhysioNet a Rotary based charity in North Yorkshire who will refurbish items and transport them to people in the 3rd world who desperately need them, but can't afford them. Physionet and the Margaret Carey Foundation work closely together.

 Rollator reused in Bhutan

Spectacles

Your unwanted spectacles will be forwarded to the SpecSort charity - organised by Rotarians near York. All spectacles capable of being reused will be refurbished and sent to the 3rd World - usually to Africa - where there are people who desperately need them but cant afford them.

Hand and Power Tools

Hand and Power Tools, Workshop Equipment and Sewing Machines will be taken by the  "Ilkley Tools for Africa"  ITFA  volunteer group who will clean them up, refurbish them, and forward them to WORKAID . Workaid will assemble donations from round the country into kits so that people in Africa can earn a living. They assemble kits for carpenters, builders, small workshops, automotive repairs, dressmakers, tailors etc and ship them to Africa for donation. People can then start small businesses that help to kick-start their local economies. Click here to see what sort of tools and equipment are most needed.

Trainers

We collect unwanted trainers - any size - for Biasan - who will use them to help refugees, immigrants and asylum seekers in Bradford 

School Equipment for GAMBIA

The Gambian Schools Trust (registered charity) are collecting school learning materials and equipment to fill a 40foot container to be sent from Shipley to Gambia in October.

No Clothing. No Toys - these are outside the customs agreement they have obtained. 

What they want is things like dictionaries, pictorial encyclopaedias, early years educational books, posters, pens and pencils, pencil sharpeners, rubbers, colour pencils (not wax or gel), biros 

Also some sports equipment - small cricket bats, pads, tennis balls, small racquets, blow-up footballs & pumps

If you have a spare banana box - put your items in that.

Stuff we might throw away is like gold dust to children in Gambia.

Your donations will make a difference....

Save Landfill !

Give work to offenders who can learn a skill and pay something back to society.

Give people the means to earn a living, to be mobile, to better their lives.

These are life changing gifts 

Can't get the bike or wheelchair down to Ilkley centre?

We might be able to pick them up at an agreed time on the day.

Unfortunately, we don't have anywhere we can store them so we can't pick up before the day.

Fill in the form below and submit it

We will email you with an approximate time we could collect on the day.

In case you can't be in, please indicate where you can leave the kit.

Thank You!