Donating Books and Other Items
Each year the Lifeline Canberra Bookfair recycles up to 1 million books - many to our Bookfairs, many to other charities, and to paper recycling. Your continuing donations keep our telephone-based crisis counselling service going. Thank you.
What?
We accept clean books, comics, magazines and pamphlets, encyclopaedias, sheet music, maps and atlases, calendars and postcards, records, CDs, DVDs, video tapes, audio cassettes and talking books, puzzles, board games, computer software and games. Materials in languages other than English are welcome. Please do not bring damaged items.
A3 boxes are also very useful.
Where?
If possible, please drop books off at our warehouse at 40 Heffernan St, Mitchell, ACT
(02 6241 2901). The warehouse is at the roundabout at the intersection of Heffernan and Brookes Streets, opposite the shopping centre. Entry is via Heffernan Street; drop off is at the back of the carpark. Map
When?
The best times for leaving books at the warehouse, when volunteers will be available to help are
- Weekdays 9:30am-1pm
- Saturdays 10am-4pm
Other Drop-off Points (business hours only)
North
- Belconnen - Pack and Send, 1/6 Weedon Close
- Dickson - Blockbuster, 3/63 Woolley Street
- Kippax - Video Ezy, 12 Kippax Place
Central
- Braddon - Pack and Send, Shop 2, 7 Lonsdale Street
South
- Holder - Home Help Services, 27 Mulley Street (Mon-Fri 9am-4.30pm)
Queanbeyan
- Queanbeyan Library - 257 Crawford Street, Queanbeyan
- TAFE Illawarra Institute, Queanbeyan Campus, Macquoid Street - cnr Buttle Street (Mon-Fri 9am-4.30pm)
For Pickups call the Lifeline Canberra office on 6247 0655
Sponsors
We are grateful to our current Bookfair sponsors, including the Toll Group, PRIME TV, Canberra's 104.7, Subway and King O'Malley's Irish Pub. Their valuable contributions help us to keep costs down and make each Bookfair a huge success.
