Moving out soon? Then ‘Give It, Don’t Bin It!’
Are you moving out at the end of term? The Give It Don’t Bin It campaign provides an easy route to donate your unwanted items to our charity partners.
When you move out of your student accommodation, inevitably there may be some items that you no longer need, or don’t want to take back home with you. Every year, Manchester Met work with our Give It Don’t Bin It campaign partners* to make sure that next to nothing ends up in landfill, and items that would otherwise have been thrown away are donated to our charity partners, the British Heart Foundation and Manchester Central Food Bank.
We are enormously proud of this campaign which has raised an estimated £3.7 million for the British Heart Foundation since 2012 and donated the equivalent of 3,340 meals to local people in food poverty since 2018.
Here is what you need to do
It is so simple! When you move out, you can donate your unwanted clothes, books, kitchen, homeware, and electrical items, via the red British Heart Foundation donation boxes across campus and Manchester.
For more info on what you can and can’t donate, check out the dedicated web page.
Food left in the cupboard?
You can donate your unopened, non-perishable and in-date food to Manchester Central Food Bank via the food donation banks situated in Cambridge and Birley (Archway) receptions.
*The Give it don’t bin it campaign partners are Manchester Met, the University of Manchester, Manchester City Council, the Students’ Unions (The Union MMU and the Students’ Union University of Manchester), Manchester Student Homes, British Heart Foundation and the Manchester Central Food Bank.
