Other ways to fundraise

Recycling with Young Lives vs Cancer is easy and helps raise money for children and young people with cancer. We can recycle your old mobile phones, digital cameras, MP3 players and if you’re upgrading your car, we can even recycle your old car.

Donate your unwanted car

Recycle your old car in aid of Young Live vs Cancer with Giveacar, our charity recycling partner, and raise money for young lives against cancer while also recycling.

Giveacar is a social enterprise that raises money for charities by accepting donations of unwanted cars. It gives you a cost-free way to donate your car to charity, just as you might donate your clothes or furniture.

eBay Shop

Looking for a techy gadget or a new mobile phone? We sell refurbished donated gadgets via our eBay shop.

We have mobile phones, MP3 players, sat navs, digital cameras, games consoles and more. The donated stock is coming in all the time so if there is something we don’t currently have please get in touch and we’ll see if we can help.

Cartridge recycling with the Recycling Factory

If you have old inkjet or toner cartridges to recycle, all the information you need can be found on the Recycling Factory’s website.

The Recycling Factory collects and recycles over eight million inkjet and toner cartridges and mobile phones each year and whether you’ve got one, or hundreds of cartridges, they can help you recycle them and raise money for Young Lives vs Cancer in the process.

Selling your unwanted items on eBay for Young Lives vs Cancer is not only a fun way to help our fight for young lives against cancer, it also has a number of great benefits for you.

Why should you sell for charity?

• Increased visibility – when you sell for charity you will automatically receive a charity ribbon next to your listings, making it stand out from the crowd.
• Extra promotion – your listing will also feature on the eBay Charity pages, further increasing the profile of your listings. Charity listings are 34% more likely to sell and attract 14% more bids.
• Enhance your reputation – your listing will automatically receive our logo and mission statement, associating you with our great cause.
• Reduction in eBay fees – the charity arm of eBay (PayPal Giving Fund) will reimburse you a percentage of your insertion and final value fees relative to the amount you choose to donate. If you give us 20% you will receive a 20% refund on your fees.
• Give what you can afford – there are no rules about what you have to give, so whether you give 10% or 100% – from as many or as few items as you like – it’s up to you.

How do you start?

• It’s easy to eBay for Young Lives vs Cancer. All you need is an eBay account and access to a computer and camera.
• Once you are ready to list your item, use the Advance Sell form or the eBay mobile app.
• Look for the charity box just below where you set your price and choose Young Lives vs Cancer. You can set the percentage you’d like to give to us (10%-100%).
• Three weeks after your item sells, PayPal Giving Fund will automatically collect the donation from you.

If you are a UK tax payer please remember to select Gift Aid which means we can claim an additional 25p for every £1 we receive.

Find out more

To find out more about how you can eBay for Young Lives vs Cancer, give us a ring on 0117 314 8611 or email ebay@younglivesvscancer.org.uk.

Young Lives vs Cancer doesn’t carry out any house-to-house donated stock collections. If you get any Young Lives vs Cancer bags through your door they are NOT legitimate and the contents are unlikely to be donated to us.