I'm just about finished on a self-build, and have some left-over building materials.

Previously I've used Freecycle, but that's become rather inundated with - shall we say - the "rather grasping".

So I'm looking either for a good-cause that has a direct use, or a charity-store that will either sell stuff, or re-gift stuff to some deserving cause.

Suggestions?

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I'm just about finished on a self-build, and have some left-over building
materials.

Previously I've used Freecycle, but that's become rather inundated with -
shall we say - the "rather grasping".

So I'm looking either for a good-cause that has a direct use, or a
charity-store that will either sell stuff, or re-gift stuff to some
deserving cause.

Suggestions?
If it's not too heavy, local car boot sale?
Better to wait for fine weather.

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I'm just about finished on a self-build, and have some left-over
building materials.

Previously I've used Freecycle, but that's become rather inundated with
- shall we say - the "rather grasping".

So I'm looking either for a good-cause that has a direct use, or a
charity-store that will either sell stuff, or re-gift stuff to some
deserving cause.

Suggestions?

Good causes are unlikely to travel vast distances to collect something
for free as it could end up cheaper buying locally. It might help if
you gave a rough idea as to where you are, and the sort of stuff you've
got (wood, plaster, sand ...).


Adrian
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Also there might be some local self build groups who do this sort of thing
already. I heard some mentioned on the radio, but was not really paying
attention at the time.

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I'm just about finished on a self-build, and have some left-over building
materials.

Previously I've used Freecycle, but that's become rather inundated with -
shall we say - the "rather grasping".

So I'm looking either for a good-cause that has a direct use, or a
charity-store that will either sell stuff, or re-gift stuff to some
deserving cause.

Suggestions?

Good causes are unlikely to travel vast distances to collect something for
free as it could end up cheaper buying locally. It might help if you gave
a rough idea as to where you are, and the sort of stuff you've got (wood,
plaster, sand ...).


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On 04/01/2014 16:44, wrote:
I'm just about finished on a self-build, and have some left-over building materials.

Previously I've used Freecycle, but that's become rather inundated with - shall we say - the "rather grasping".

So I'm looking either for a good-cause that has a direct use, or a charity-store that will either sell stuff, or re-gift stuff to some deserving cause.

Suggestions?

You can still use Freecycle, but make it clear that:
1. You will wait for a few days before deciding who to give it to,
rather than giving it to the first applicant
2. You will give priority to anyone needing it for charitable purposes

If you don't get any suitable applicants, you can declare it "taken" and
actually dispose of it by some other means.
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On 04/01/2014 16:44, wrote:
I'm just about finished on a self-build, and have some left-over building
materials.

Previously I've used Freecycle, but that's become rather inundated with -
shall we say - the "rather grasping".

So I'm looking either for a good-cause that has a direct use, or a
charity-store that will either sell stuff, or re-gift stuff to some
deserving cause.

Suggestions?

You can still use Freecycle, but make it clear that:
1. You will wait for a few days before deciding who to give it to, rather
than giving it to the first applicant
2. You will give priority to anyone needing it for charitable purposes

Personally, I would do that without bothering to "make it clear" beforehand.
Doing so will just end up with the "grabbers" making up the appropriate sob
story

tim

I set up, and used to run, the local Freecycle group.

I wouldn't rule out freecycle for items that I know will attract only mostly genuine people.

But certain items attract dozens of nuisance emails, and unreliable people, that if they turn up at all - they then turn up late with unsuitable vehicles, begging for anything and everything, string, rope, tape, bags, other building materials that are nothing to do with them, borrow tools, fix-my-crappy-roofrack etc.

And/or followed by endless "waah - why didn't I get XYZ?".

What I'm looking to do here is to make a donation of useful/valuable stuff to a worthy cause - with the least hassle.

On Sunday, January 5, 2014 10:39:43 AM UTC, wrote:

I set up, and used to run, the local Freecycle group.
I wouldn't rule out freecycle for items that I know will attract only mostly genuine people.
But certain items attract dozens of nuisance emails, and unreliable people, that if they turn up at all - they then turn up late with unsuitable vehicles, begging for anything and everything, string, rope, tape, bags, other building materials that are nothing to do with them, borrow tools, fix-my-crappy-roofrack etc.
And/or followed by endless "waah - why didn't I get XYZ?".
What I'm looking to do here is to make a donation of useful/valuable stuff to a worthy cause - with the least hassle.

An easy solution to that IME is to include a condition in the offer that they need to respond to in their reply. One simple option is to say responses without a desired collection day & time will go to the back of the queue.

Anyone with a time wasting reply gets spambinned - but not genuine questions.


NT

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On Sunday, January 5, 2014 10:39:43 AM UTC, wrote:

I set up, and used to run, the local Freecycle group.
I wouldn't rule out freecycle for items that I know will attract only
mostly genuine people.
But certain items attract dozens of nuisance emails, and unreliable
people, that if they turn up at all - they then turn up late with
unsuitable vehicles, begging for anything and everything, string, rope,
tape, bags, other building materials that are nothing to do with them,
borrow tools, fix-my-crappy-roofrack etc.
And/or followed by endless "waah - why didn't I get XYZ?".
What I'm looking to do here is to make a donation of useful/valuable stuff
to a worthy cause - with the least hassle.

An easy solution to that IME is to include a condition in the offer that
they need to respond to in their reply. One simple option is to say
responses without a desired collection day & time will go to the back of the
queue.

Anyone with a time wasting reply gets spambinned - but not genuine
questions.

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I just make it clear that they collect at my convenience, and beyond helping
to put it in their car they get no assistance from me at all

tim

On 05/01/2014 09:12, tim...... wrote:

"Roger Mills" wrote in message
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On 04/01/2014 16:44, wrote:
I'm just about finished on a self-build, and have some left-over
building materials.

Previously I've used Freecycle, but that's become rather inundated
with - shall we say - the "rather grasping".

So I'm looking either for a good-cause that has a direct use, or a
charity-store that will either sell stuff, or re-gift stuff to some
deserving cause.

Suggestions?

You can still use Freecycle, but make it clear that:
1. You will wait for a few days before deciding who to give it to,
rather than giving it to the first applicant
2. You will give priority to anyone needing it for charitable purposes

Personally, I would do that without bothering to "make it clear"
beforehand. Doing so will just end up with the "grabbers" making up the
appropriate sob story

tim


That's not my experience. When I've done that, the grabbers still reply
along the lines of "I'll have that" without bothering to read the
conditions.
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On 05/01/2014 09:12, tim...... wrote:


That's not my experience. When I've done that, the grabbers still reply
along the lines of "I'll have that" without bothering to read the
conditions.

I got kicked off my local freegle group after getting fed up of the people
with auto responders that sent a 'that's just what i need, please can i have
it' reply to almost all posts the second they went live,
of course most of the people who do that just want free stuff to sell on
eBay or at car boots. so don't even bother to set up a mail rule to respond
to certain words in the ads.

I offered a few things like '**** on a stick' 'contents of a septic tank'
and 'second hand jam rags' and sure enough i got about 12 replies asking for
them (and a few from real people pointing out how disgusting i was, and it
was those that got me kicked off)

most replies were of the 'i'll have that, when can i collect' type, but one
was a real sob story line of 'i've been wanting to buy one of those for
years, but could never save up the money due to all my money going on my
disabled son, please please please can i have the one you are offering, it
would make me so happy if i could finally own one after all these years of
waiting'
she'd been waiting years for all of the items i posted of course.

Then i posted an 'ad' with a list of the people who had sent mails claiming
they wanted the items, warning others on the list what those people were
doing,
a few people replied saying they had only figured out people did this kind
of thing after the same person had been to their house to get items about 5
times! most didn't even know you could set up email auto responders,

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On 05/01/2014 09:12, tim...... wrote:


That's not my experience. When I've done that, the grabbers still reply
along the lines of "I'll have that" without bothering to read the
conditions.

I got kicked off my local freegle group after getting fed up of the
people with auto responders that sent a 'that's just what i need, please
can i have it' reply to almost all posts the second they went live,

[Snip]

Luckily, we don't seem to have this sort of person on our local group, but
we do have some "I need" people. Someone once posted "wanted a 3 bedroom
house" and got kicked off, but so many people complained, he was
re-instated.

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So I'm looking either for a good-cause that has a direct use, or a
charity-store that will either sell stuff, or re-gift stuff to some
deserving cause.

Do you have a local Emmaus? It's a homeless community - the one around here
is a farmstead where the ex-homeless folks live, refurbish and sell old
household goods. Being a farm they have a lot more space than the average
charity shop, and some of the buildings have a self-built look about them.

Might be worth getting in touch and seeing if the material's any use to them
or they know anyone who could use them.

Theo

On 4 Jan 2014 18:30:45 GMT, Huge wrote:

On 2014-01-04, Theo Markettos wrote:
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So I'm looking either for a good-cause that has a direct use, or a
charity-store that will either sell stuff, or re-gift stuff to some
deserving cause.

Do you have a local Emmaus?

Which, FWIW, is an organisation I thoroughly approve of; giving the
homeless a bed, and a reason to get out of it. The local one is very
good, and we give it all our resaleable "stuff". They also have a really
good coffee-shop.

I just wish I could stop coming home with more stuff than we took up there.

http://www.emmaus.org.uk/


There is a lovely one in Mossley.
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I'm just about finished on a self-build, and have some left-over building materials.

Build a brick barbecue.

Bill

Some towns have a wood recycling facility that might take some of this, and maybe advise on the disposal of the rest... eg:

http://www.woodrecycling.org.uk/

Though when I disposed of a load of wood from my late Father's garage some years ago, I still had to pay them for the removal ;-(.

I third the support of Emmaus, an excellent organisation.

Cheers
Jon N

On Saturday, 4 January 2014 16:44:56 UTC, wrote:
I'm just about finished on a self-build...

Various clarifications:
I have a van and can transport moderate distances.
There's an Emmaus near-ish me (Cambridge) - I'll phone an ask - although building materials are not on their list of accepted stuff.
Boot sale doesn't appeal - I'm time-poor, and would prefer to give to a good cause rather than sell.
Stuff includes quite a bit of celotex, joinery timber, new-ish ikea kitchen units, and some large gothic-arched sealed glazing units.

On Sat, 4 Jan 2014 12:57:29 -0800 (PST), wrote:

... and some large gothic-arched sealed glazing units.

Oooo...

... near-ish me (Cambridge) ...

Ahhhh, but they wouldn't be the right curve for our opening anyway.

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On Saturday, 4 January 2014 16:44:56 UTC, wrote:
I'm just about finished on a self-build...

Various clarifications:
I have a van and can transport moderate distances.
There's an Emmaus near-ish me (Cambridge) - I'll phone an ask -
although building materials are not on their list of accepted stuff.
Boot sale doesn't appeal - I'm time-poor, and would prefer to give to a
good cause rather than sell.
Stuff includes quite a bit of celotex, joinery timber, new-ish ikea
kitchen units, and some large gothic-arched sealed glazing units.

Duuno about general stuff. There is a paint recycling place near
Cambridge somewhere.
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On Sat, 4 Jan 2014 12:57:29 -0800 (PST), "
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On Saturday, 4 January 2014 16:44:56 UTC, wrote:
I'm just about finished on a self-build...

Various clarifications:
I have a van and can transport moderate distances.
There's an Emmaus near-ish me (Cambridge) - I'll phone an ask - although building materials are not on their list of accepted stuff.
Boot sale doesn't appeal - I'm time-poor, and would prefer to give to a good cause rather than sell.
Stuff includes quite a bit of celotex, joinery timber, new-ish ikea kitchen units, and some large gothic-arched sealed glazing units.


Got a scout group near by?
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On Saturday, January 4, 2014 4:44:56 PM UTC, wrote:
I'm just about finished on a self-build, and have some left-over building materials.



Previously I've used Freecycle, but that's become rather inundated with - shall we say - the "rather grasping".



So I'm looking either for a good-cause that has a direct use, or a charity-store that will either sell stuff, or re-gift stuff to some deserving cause.



Suggestions?

You could have a look at http://www.recipro-uk.com/community_projects

Seems to do the sort of thing you're looking for, but I don't know how easy it is to match what you've got with people who need it.

A

You could have a look at http://www.recipro-uk.com/community_projects


Excellent resource! Thanks for that, exactly the sort of thing I was looking for.