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Little Village Camden
Little Village Wandsworth
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wandsworth@littlevillagehq.org
Little Village HQ, St Mark's Church,
53 Rowfont Road, London, SW17 7AP
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Little Village Camden
Wishlist December 2018
Wishlist December 2018
Items we need
Thanks to your incredible generosity, our shelves are extraordinarily full. As a result, this month we can only accept
- Winter clothes (boys or girls) for 2-5 year olds
Please do hold on to any smaller clothes as we will likely need them soon!
We also need:
- Winter Coats, hats, scarves and gloves: newborn–5 years
- Buggies: newborn, doubles and strollers
- Slings
- Moses baskets, cribs, cots, travel cots and cotbeds
- Bedding: for cots and cotbeds
- Sleeping bags: 0-6 months
- Feeding kit: sterilisers and pumps
- New bottle teats: for Dr Brown, Tommee Tippee, Nuk and Mam bottles
- Playmats / baby gyms
- Baby bouncer chairs
- Baby baths and bath supports
- Towels: particularly baby towels
- Changing bags
- Changing mats
- Nappies: sizes 5 and 6
- Baby toiletries
- Allen keys: to put cots together
- Baby board books
If you don’t have the things we need but you want to support Little Village families, check out our Amazon wish list for items that we need to buy new http://amzn.eu/bAKjN3f We’d hugely appreciate any items on this list.
Thank you so much as always.
Items we don't accept:
- Open packs (nappies, breast pads, toiletries)
- Open system breast pumps
- Baby food or formula
- Maternity clothing
- Cot accessories (bumpers and mobiles)
- Door bouncers
- Car and bike accessories (including seats)
- Changing units
- Nursery decorations (framed pictures, night lights)
- Large toys
- Nappy bins
- Religious themed items
- Unless they are in unopened, original packaging: mattresses, bottle teats, dummies
- Pregnancy books
All our items are gifts from one family to another. Please only bring us items that you think a friend would be delighted to receive. Thank you!
Steps
Step 1. Check the wishlist - Do we need it?
In every site, space is at a premium so we run a monthly ‘wishlist‘ highlighting the priority items we need. Some months, when people have been particularly generous, we may not be able to accept the items you have. If you can, hold on to them because we’ll probably need them soon!
Step 2. Is it safe?
Safety is our number one concern. Please only bring us items in full working order, ideally complete with an instruction manual if needed. Check out our safety standards here. To donate a cot, please watch this short film, and here’s one if you want to donate a buggy.
Step 3. Is it great quality?
Ask yourself, would my friend be delighted to be gifted these items? Please only bring us items that fit that bill. That means clean, unstained clothes; toys with all parts and in full working order; and equipment with all the screws and an instruction manual.
Step 4. Bring it to one of our drop in sessions
We are largely run by volunteers so can’t offer a collection service, but if you’re struggling to reach us, you can ask for help from our volunteer community on the local facebook page for Wandsworth, Camden and Southwark. Other people have clubbed together so that one person brings donations from a group of friends. If you have a high demand item we can usually arrange for you to drop off at other times.
Step 5. Enjoy a big thank you!
And if you’d like a hug of gratitude from one of our volunteers, please sort your items into age categories, bring instruction manuals, and bag up toys into packs. You’ll make our day – and you’ll be saving us precious volunteer time and helping us to reach even more families.
Opening times
Little Village Camden is open for you to drop off donations every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday during term time, between 9.30am and 1pm.
Did you know...
That in 2017, we gave out over £640,000 of beautiful quality items to over 1000 families. All thanks to our wonderful donors who decided to gift their kit to Little Village.
