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Free Stuff in Sheffield

Free stuff in Sheffield, and getting it home.

Givore is a free app for passing on what you no longer use. Nothing costs anything. People searching Freecycle Sheffield or Freegle Sheffield are after the same idea. In Sheffield the hard part is rarely finding the item. It is the walk back up the hill with it.

The biggest thing you can take home

On foot

A lamp, a bag of books, a frying pan, a folding chair. Filter to walking distance first, then look at what is in it.

On the tram or the bus

Anything you can hold with one hand while you pay. A toaster, a rucksack of clothes, a small mirror wrapped in a towel.

In a car

A bedside table, a dining chair, a bike with the front wheel out. Take the parcel shelf out before you leave.

With a borrowed van

Wardrobes, sofas, a fridge. Worth arranging two of these in one trip, because the van is the difficult part.

Hold it while you sort the lift.

You do not have to promise to be there in ten minutes. Reserving gives you room to ring your brother about the estate car.

Say when you can come

"Saturday morning, with a van" tells the giver far more than "yes please" does.

The giver chooses

They see everybody waiting and pick one. Being first in the queue is not what decides it.

Ask about the steps

Plenty of Sheffield front doors sit above a flight of steps from the pavement. Check before you borrow the van.

Start with what fits in your hands.

Set the app to Sheffield, narrow it to a mile, and see what is there tonight.

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Givore cat mascot carrying a free chair up a Sheffield hill Givore cat mascot handing free stuff to a Sheffield neighbour

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Sheffield questions

Those two are free and they run on email groups, and people have used them happily for a long time. Givore puts every item on a map, so you can see the distance before you commit to fetching it.
No. Everyone waiting is shown to the person giving the item, and they choose. A neighbour two streets away often beats someone who tapped sooner.
Long enough to sort out a lift. Say in your message when you could come, and agree it in the chat.
Yes, if you filter by distance. Plenty of what people hand on fits in a rucksack or under one arm.
Ask for a photo of the damaged part before you set off. Anyone honest will send one.