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Help us save lives by donating your unwanted items

24 Jul 2018

Boost the Give It Don’t Bin It (GIDBI) end of year reuse campaign, which encourages students to donate their unwanted items to the British Heart Foundation (BHF)

Give It Don't Bin It campaign

The campaign has been running since 2012 and has now raised the equivalent of £1.3 million for the BHF, funding vital research to help fight heart disease. 

This year the Manchester-wide campaign has already donated more than 13,500 bags of items, raising the equivalent of £189,000 for the charity when the items sell in their shops.

We are now launching a staff campaign so you can also get involved with GIDBI by donating your unwanted items. 

There are BHF donation banks across campus and halls of residence, so if you’re having a clear out over summer please donate any clothes, shoes, books, handbags, DVD’s/ CD’s and small working electrical appliances to one of these banks. 

Where to donate:

Donation points are located at:

  • Aquatics Centre car park
  • George Kenyon Hall
  • Booth Street West car park
  • Core Technology Facility
  • Whitworth Park halls
  • Across Victoria Park and Fallowfield campuses
  • The Mill
  • Wright Robinson Hall
  • Weston Hall
  • Chandos Hall

Professor of cardiovascular medicine Bernard Keavney said: "At least one in four families in the UK will have a member die due to heart and circulatory disease, and Greater Manchester has the worst rates for these diseases in the whole of the country.

"The British Heart Foundation funds over £100 million of research each year to fight these literally heartbreaking diseases, including a large amount of support going to University departments in Greater Manchester. For example, BHF support my research team, which is focused on improving the outcomes for babies and children born with congenital malformations of the heart.

"Donating your unwanted items at the end of the academic year is a fantastic way to support research that will benefit heart patients of all ages." 

At least £1billion-worth of electrical and electronic equipment can be found in homes that are no longer used.  If you have any non-working small electrical items (including cables) that don’t carry any personal data on them these can be taken to the new electronic waste bin located at the entrance of the Booth Street West Car Park. 

Vice-President of Social Responsibility Professor James Thompson said: "GIDBI is an award winning campaign that works in partnership with other organisations across the city. It is great that staff from across different Faculties and Directorates have been able to link up to bring the campaign to all our staff in order for them to help make a difference."  

The staff campaign of GIDBI is managed by the Directorate for the Student Experience (Residential & Sport Services, SDCE and Manchester Student Homes) and supported by the Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI), Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, Faculty of Science & Engineering and the Environmental Sustainability Team. The SCI manage the new electronic waste bin that is located at Booth Street West Car Park.