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Making Material Donations

The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul welcomes your donations of household goods, clothing, and personal items and can find ways to help those in need with a wide range of your in-kind donations.

Please drop off your donations at a retail store near you, or call one of the numbers listed to arrange a pick-up of your donations.

Greater Victoria Area
833 Yates Street, Victoria BC
(250) 382-3213

Esquimalt and Sidney Area
1010 Craigflower Road, Victoria BC
(250) 590-8390

Langford and Sooke Area
2784 Claude Road, Victoria BC
(250) 478-0282

A few things to remember:

We would not be able to run out successful retail stores and give back to the community without your generous contributions. However, we would like to encourage responsbile donations!
Therefore, we ask that the following guidelines are followed:

Donations we look forward to receiving

  1. Clothes: shoes, pants, shirts, coats, blouses, belts, jeans, hats, dresses, socks, etc. in good condition. No rips, stains, or severe wear marks please.
  2. 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
  3. 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.

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 judgment 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 metals, plastics, paper and clothing (among other things) the disposal costs for unusable donated items to Saint Vincent de Paul exceeds $30,000 per year?