Clear Out Your Drawer
We've all got bras we'll never wear again. Wrong size, retired favourites, impulse buys. Recycling them clears space and does good, instead of going in the bin.
Bra Recycling
Recycle Your Bras, Help Beat Breast Cancer
Clearing out your drawer? Don't bin your old bras. Post them to our recycling partner Clothes Relief Ltd, who sell them on our behalf and donate the money raised straight to Beat Breast Cancer — helping fund life-saving equipment for NHS breast cancer units across the UK.
- UK-based Charity
- 100% Donation Policy
- No Trustee Wages
Free to recycleEvery bra helpsNo minimum
Where to Post Your Bras To
Pop your clean, unwanted bras in a parcel or padded envelope and post them to the address below, marked FAO: Beat Breast Cancer Bra Recycling. That's it — Clothes Relief do the rest.
Post your bras toFAO: Beat Breast Cancer Bra RecyclingClothes Relief LtdUnit 11 Thurrock Park WayTilburyRM18 7HZ
Any queries about your parcel? Call Clothes Relief on 01708 551 355, Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm.
Three Reasons To Recycle Your Bras
A drawer clear-out that's good for you, good for the planet, and good for patients.
Keep Textiles Out Of Landfill
Bras are notoriously hard to recycle through normal channels, so most end up in the bin. Sent to Clothes Relief, they get a second life through resale which is far kinder to the planet.
Fund Breast Cancer Equipment
Clothes Relief sell the bras and donate the proceeds to us. With our strict 100% donation policy, every penny goes towards equipment for NHS breast cancer units.
How It Works In Four Steps
Gather your unwanted bras
Round up any bras you no longer wear. All shapes, sizes and colours welcome. Underwired, non-wired, sports and maternity bras are all fine.
Pack them up
Pop them into a parcel or padded envelope. There's no minimum, send one or send twenty. You cover the postage, so second class is fine and it's worth waiting until you've gathered a bundle.
Post them to Clothes Relief
Send your parcel to the Clothes Relief address above marked FAO: Beat Breast Cancer Bra Recycling so they know which charity to credit.
They sell them — we put the money to work
Clothes Relief sell the bras through their resale channels and donate the proceeds to Beat Breast Cancer. We direct the funds to NHS breast cancer units that need new equipment.
What Condition Do Your Bras Need To Be In?
Clean and no longer wanted is the only real requirement. We're not fussy about the rest.
- Any size, any shape, any colour
- Underwired or non-wired
- Sports bras and maternity bras
- Bras you've had for years, and ones you bought last month and never wore
If you've ever been told a bra isn't "good enough" to donate to a charity shop, that doesn't apply here. Most charity shops won't take second-hand bras at all, for hygiene reasons, which is exactly why a dedicated route like ours exists.
If your bras are genuinely worn out rather than just unwanted, sending them is still worthwhile. Anything that can't be resold is dealt with responsibly rather than binned, and every parcel helps.
Is There a Bra Bank Near You?
Short answer: not through us, and we'd rather be upfront about that than send you looking for one that isn't there.
Some organisations run physical bra banks, usually at a workplace or a retail site. Marks & Spencer takes bras in-store as part of its Shwopping scheme, and lingerie retailer Bravissimo has recycling bins in its shops. If you'd rather drop bras off somewhere on your next shopping trip, either of those is a reasonable option.
But hosting a physical bra bank usually comes with strings attached. One well-known scheme asks you to collect at least 400 bras before they'll deliver a bank, and their postal route needs roughly 300 bras for a one-off collection. That's a lot of drawers to clear before you can do anything.
Posting to us sidesteps all of that. There's no minimum, no bank to host, and no ongoing commitment. If a "bra bank near me" search brought you here, post is very likely the simpler answer.
Get the postal addressA Small Act With A Big Impact
Out of your drawer, out of landfill, and into equipment that helps NHS teams catch breast cancer earlier.
- Around
- 19 Million
- Bras end up in landfills every year in just the UK.
- Around
- 50
- years for a single bra to decompose in landfills
Every year, a huge amount of wearable clothing and textiles is thrown away across the UK despite still having value, and bras are some of the hardest items to recycle conventionally. By posting yours to Clothes Relief instead of binning them, you keep them out of landfill and turn them into something genuinely useful.
Because the money raised comes back to Beat Breast Cancer, those unwanted bras help fund the screening, diagnostic and treatment equipment we provide to NHS breast units. Early detection is the single biggest factor in surviving breast cancer, and better equipment helps hospitals catch it sooner.
Learn more about breast cancerA drawer clear-out you'd have done anyway, turned into equipment that could help catch breast cancer earlier. For someone.
About Clothes Relief Ltd
Clothes Relief Ltd is a UK-based clothing collection company that works with charities to turn unwanted clothing and textiles into support for good causes. A key part of their work is preventing wearable items from going to landfill — they collect, sort and resell responsibly, then share the proceeds with charity partners like Beat Breast Cancer.
Alongside this bra recycling scheme, Clothes Relief also run our doorstep clothing collections and currently donate a fixed amount to us every month.
- UK-Based
- Charity Partner
- Keeps textiles out of landfill
- Donates proceeds to us
Where your money goes
£40,400+
Already donated to NHS breast cancer units across the UK
From Royal Blackburn Hospital (our very first grant) to Guy's & St Thomas' in London and The Christie in Manchester. Every bra you recycle helps fund the next grant on that list.
See where your money goesBra Donation Questions, Answered
The things people ask us most before posting their first parcel.
Do charity shops take bras?
Most don't. Charity shops generally won't accept second-hand bras for resale on their shop floor, for hygiene reasons, even if the bra is in good condition. A handful, like Oxfam, will take bras that are new and still tagged, but that rules out most of what's sitting in your drawer. Posting to a dedicated bra recycling scheme is usually the better route for anything you've actually worn.
Can you donate bras to charity if they're worn out?
Yes, through us. Send anything you no longer want, worn or not. What can be resold is resold; what genuinely can't is dealt with responsibly rather than sent to landfill.
Is there a minimum number of bras I can send?
No. Send one bra or twenty, whatever you've got. Some other schemes ask for a minimum of a few hundred bras before they'll accept a collection. We don't.
Do you take underwired bras?
Yes. Underwired, non-wired, sports and maternity bras are all fine.
What if my bras can't be sold on?
They're still put to good use rather than binned. Not everything that arrives is resellable, but nothing is wasted.
Is this a freepost service?
No. You pay the postage, so a parcel costs you the price of a stamp or a postage label. Second class is absolutely fine, there's no rush at our end. And because there's no minimum, it's worth waiting until you've gathered a bundle if you'd rather post just the once.
Ready To Clear Out Your Drawer For A Good Cause?
Gather your unwanted bras, post them to Clothes Relief, and we'll turn them into equipment for NHS breast cancer units.
Would rather give directly? Make a donation.