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It takes a lot of dedicated people to provide Lifeline's telephone crisis support services 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, across Australia. Lifeline relies on over 11,000 Volunteers nation wide to support Lifeline's crisis support line, help raise funds, work in retail outlets, or conduct administrative duties.

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Online Bookstore

Lifeline Canberra earns a major part of its funding by selling thousands of donated items at our three Bookfairs. We offer a wide range of fiction and non-fiction books for all ages, as well as magazines and pamphlets, comic books and atlases, records, CDs and DVDs, games and puzzles.

A limited selection of our rarer, more valuable or collectable items is available for purchase from our online bookstore catalogue.

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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 (pre-1940 or the last 20 years only, please), sheet music, maps and atlases, calendars and postcards, records, CDs, DVDs, talking books, puzzles, board games, computer software and games for current operating systems. Materials in languages other than English are welcome. Please do not bring damaged items.

A3 boxes are also very useful.

Where?

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  10:00am - 4pm
There is also a little shed in the driveway of our warehouse which is open 24/7 for donations.

Other Drop-off Points (business hours only)

Please use the drop-off points below or our Warehouse in Mitchell for all donations Map

North

  • Belconnen - Pack & Send, 1/6 Weedon Close Map
  • Braddon - Pack & Send, Shop 2, 7 Lonsdale St Map

South

  • Holder - Home Help Service, 27 Mulley Street (up to 4 medium-sized boxes only) Map

Queanbeyan

  • Queanbeyan Library - 6 Rutledge Street, Queanbeyan. By prior arrangement only -  call 6285 6239 to arrange to drop off books on Monday to Thursday 2pm-4pm only. Books must be delivered in small boxes.

For pick-ups, call the Lifeline Canberra office on (02) 6247 0655.

Lifeline Canberra can arrange for our driver to come and collect all donations between the hours of 7:30am - 12:00pm. Please call the Lifeline Canberra office on (02) 6247 0655.

Please note that, while we try to accommodate our valued donors as best we can, it is advisable to ring at least 1 week in advance in order to secure the pickup date that you require.

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