If you have an item you would like to donate to our retail stores, please call our contact us at the Royal Oak Center (250-727-0808) to inquire when and if you may make a drop off.
We would not be able to run our successful retail stores and give back to the community without your generous contributions. However, we would like to encourage responsible donations! Therefore we ask that the following guidelines are followed:
- All donations are to be dropped off at Royal Oak Sorting Centre (see contact us for address and directions), with the exception of our Sooke outlet which will take on site donations.
- Please call ahead with all donation inquiries. We are, on occation, over capacity and cannot take further donations.
- Please do not drop off items outside of our hours of operation.
- Please do your best to bag clothing separately from other donations.
- Make it safe for all when you donate, watch for items that are sharp or could break. Safety is important for everyone.
Donations of Goods we look forward to receiving:
- Clothes: shoes, pants, shirts, coats, blouses, belts, jeans, hats, dresses, socks, etc. in good condition. No rips, stains or severe wear marks please.
- Household items: dishes, pans, pots, cutlery, small appliances in working condition. We cannot sell appliances that need severe cleaning, are not working, or are missing cords and parts.
- Furniture that is not broken and needing repairs and has no tears, stains or wear marks. We cannot sell bookcases without shelves, couches that sag, or furniture that is severely damaged.
- Single, double or queen size mattresses that have no rips or stains, and are in good condition please. Bed frames are welcome, but frames with missing pieces are not.
It is the leftover garage sale items we DO have a problem with. If you cannot sell them or give them away when you have your sale, remember that we will have the same problem!
Clothing we can help you recycle no problem. Most other items we can use, however, please be aware and use your judgement that some items we cannot, even if they are freely given to us.
Did you know that even with the Society's recycling program for metels, plastics, paper and clothing (among other things) the disposal costs for unusable donated items to Saint Vincent de Paul exceeds $30,000 per year?