Donate Your Old Sofa to the British Heart Foundation
When you buy a new sofa from Darlings Of Chelsea, The British Heart Foundation will collect your old sofa, and any other furniture free of charge. Are you thinking of buying a new sofa? If you are you’re probably wondering what to do with the old one. Getting rid of it isn’t easy – unless of course you decide to donate your furniture to charity.
Sofa removal can cost you money but you can book a free collection with the British Heart Foundation to donate your sofa to them. Provided your old sofa is still in good condition, it can be sold on to raise funds for the charity. These funds go towards essential research to help combat heart disease in its many forms. The money will also pay for specialist nurses and other carers to ensure people affected by this disease get the best possible care at all times.
As such, opting for a free sofa removal is a win-win situation. You don’t have the hassle of figuring out how to get rid of your old sofa; it doesn’t go into landfill; and a worthwhile charity can make money from it helping them reach their goals. You just need to make sure your sofa has a fire label attached to it (or to every item if you have armchairs to donate as well). This is for safety reasons: a sofa cannot be sold without them.
Charity furniture collection
The furniture donation process itself is superbly simple. The British Heart Foundation gives you a number of different ways to arrange a free collection. The easiest method is to make your booking online, but you can also opt to call them to arrange a convenient collection. It’s even possible to pop into your local shop, so there is a way for everyone to give furniture to charity very easily indeed.
When you donate a sofa to charity you are opening up the opportunity for new funds to be raised to help the British Heart Foundation. You might be surprised how far your money goes too.
For example, just £10 will buy 10 flasks made from sterile plastic that cells can be grown in while researching heart disease. In contrast, just £180 can help provide funds for one day of BHF heart nursing care.
This would enable one experienced nurse to attend to as many as six patients. This care can help prevent re-admissions to hospitals and help patients live as normal a life as possible.
As you can see, the funds raised from the collection of your old sofa can go much further than you’d think. Isn’t this better than consigning your sofa to landfill, where it will be left to rot unused? It can be difficult to make the connection between an old sofa and essential health care and research. When you see where your money goes, however, you can make that connection far more easily.
BHF can donate sofa collection services because it reaps the rewards from offering to collect furniture that may not otherwise be offered to it. The benefits to the charity of collecting large items of furniture like these can be seen in the figures above. The BHF shops brought in an incredible £31 million last year alone, selling 90,000 every single day in the process. With an army of 20,000 volunteers all doing their bit for the charity, it’s worth doing your bit as well the next time you have a sofa you no longer need or want.
The British Heart Foundation is becoming better known as the furniture collection charity. Word is getting around that they have a collection service that will take your old sofas and other bulky furniture items. In fact, don’t just call them to arrange your own collection: make sure you let other people know they can donate old furniture to them if they have any. The British Heart Foundation has been going for more than 50 years now, and they have more than 700 shops – one of which could be in your local area. Since over 170 of these focus on selling furniture and electrical items, there is a real market for second-furniture just like your old sofa.
So don’t bin it or hire a van to get rid of it: visit the British Heart Foundation now to donate it instead: www.bhf.org.uk
