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Free Stuff in London

Free stuff in London, from your own street.

Givore is a free app. You post something you no longer want, a neighbour asks for it, and they come and collect it. No money changes hands. If you already search Freecycle London or scroll the Gumtree freebies list, you know the idea. Givore puts it on a map of your bit of the city.

What moves where in London.

London is not one place. What people hand on in Hackney is rarely what they hand on in Ealing.

Hackney

Flat shares here turn over all year round. When somebody moves out, the desk and the drying rack need a new home.

Camden

Students live all around here. When term ends, the bookshelves and the kettles have to go somewhere.

Peckham

Small flats, shared houses. Chairs and mirrors mostly, and the sort of thing you can carry home on foot.

Walthamstow

More houses here, and gardens with them. Garden chairs and tools come up when a family outgrows them, along with a lot of children's things.

Clapham

Short leases. A whole kitchen can empty over one weekend when a tenancy ends.

Ealing

Bigger homes, so bigger things. This is where it is worth asking about a fridge or a washing machine.

Being first does not win it

1. You reserve it

Tap reserve on the thing you want and say when you could collect. You do not have to beat anybody to it.

2. The giver chooses

They see everyone who is waiting, and they pick. Someone round the corner with a van can be a better fit than someone who tapped a second sooner.

3. You sort out the handover

Chat in the app, agree a time, knock on the door. Putting something up yourself takes about half a minute.

Start with one thing.

Pick the item in your hallway that you keep walking past. Photograph it, post it, and let a neighbour take it away.

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Elsewhere, and further reading.

Questions Londoners ask

Close. Both are free and both are local. Freecycle London works through group posts and email. Givore is an app with a map, so you see what is near your postcode and reserve it there and then.
The Gumtree free section sits inside a site built for selling, so free things get buried under adverts. On Givore there is no price box at all. Nobody can ask you for money.
Usually not. Most of what people pass on is small enough to carry or to fit in a taxi. For anything heavy, ask the giver about stairs and lifts before you say yes.
Anything clean that still works. Furniture, clothes, kitchen things, books, tools, plants. If you would be happy to be handed it yourself, post it.