Founded by Karen Harvey MBE in 2014, Toiletries Amnesty is an award-winning NGO working to end hygiene poverty and divert beauty industry waste. Supporting over 900 locations, in 2023 Toiletries Amnesty provided access to toiletries and hygiene products for 4 million people around the world.
We work to support homeless shelters/hostels, women’s refuges, mental health services, end of life care hospices, food banks, NHS Trust services, refugee services, LGBTQ+ groups, prison services, children’s centres, young people’s services, schools, colleges, community groups, and other organisations that need us.
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Toiletries Amnesty supports homeless shelters and hostels, women and children’s refuges, mental health services, children and families centres, food banks and other charitable organisations who are in need of toiletries and hygiene products. Sign up here for free.
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There are lots of ways you can support our work.
Toiletries Amnesty is self-funded. We don’t receive any government funding or subsidies, but continue to support millions of people every year.
Can you help us continue this vital work?
Your contribution will make a huge difference, to people and to the planet.
How to donate
We love the work of Toiletries Amnesty. They have created a solution lead pathway for a circular economy model in the spa and beauty sector, helping our industry operators and suppliers to review the word ‘waste’ and think more about re-use and re-purpose of materials before assigning them to landfill.
Lucy Brialey, Co-Founder of Sustainable Wellness
As a charity we would never be able to buy products of this quality for our patients and carers. As our patients are all approaching the end of their lives, we do all we can to improve the quality of their lives, receiving such amazingly generous donations helps us to do this. We can’t thank you enough.
The Prince of Wales Hospice
Being able to give families a bag of toiletries that can last a week or a month makes a huge difference to them financially as well as emotionally. The ‘spare’ money is often put towards bills or food shopping. We as a charity rely on donations of toiletries to support the work we do; we are so grateful to Toiletries Amnesty.
The Baby Bank
This wonderful service has been of great help to our organisation and clients, it has been a struggle to get adequate levels of stock for our food bank. We have been relying on the help of our wonderful volunteers and the help of Toiletries Amnesty to get through. We couldn’t have done it without your kind help.
Crookston Community Group
X Foundation chose the Toiletries Amnesty for its identification and innovative reversal of what is a common household issue into a positive result for those in need. The initiative has the means to be a global vehicle for good and for the care of others less fortunate […] It is accessible, honourable and holds the potential for rapid growth to achieve good.
X Foundation
Toiletries Amnesty has allowed a stream of reliable products, essential to the ongoing work we provide as an organisation. During the covid pandemic and as a direct response from the project we have been able to increase our output which otherwise wouldn't have been possible.
Secret Santa 365
We received donation of hand sanitisers, and they couldn’t have come at a better time to help support all of our families. The donation has meant that every food parcel that we send out to our families we can add that little extra protection for themselves and their children and with the level of deprivation that we see at times this is the last thing on people’s minds.
Alice Charity
We cannot thank you enough for your generous donation of toiletries. Your kindness is greatly appreciated by everyone at Kilbryde Hospice, even more so during these uncertain times. It is so heart-warming for us to know that Kilbryde Hospice still has the on-going support of the local community to help us to continue to provide the much-needed care to our patients and their families.
Kilbryde Hospice
Refugees need toiletries just like the rest of us, but these are often expensive items and for refugees with barely any funds it can be impossible for them to afford these items. When we hand out toiletries at our aid distributions they are always very gratefully received.
Goodwill Caravan
Through Toiletries Amnesty’s invaluable assistance and collaboration, we have successfully extended our outreach efforts and launched a third branch of the charity, a toiletries bank, specifically dedicated to providing essential hygiene products to individuals and families experiencing hardship.
Dr Anika Walia, Anika Food Charity
Having discovered Toiletry Amnesty, I knew I found the ideal place to donate – with connections to charities all over the UK, I was glad that my products would go to helping as much people as possible, all around the country.
Rhiannon Derbyshire, Style Writer
I wonder if the people who donate all the toiletries know how much difference they make? Thank you to all the kind people out there.
Service User, Feathers Futures
We are so grateful for the donations we receive through Toiletries Amnesty. We provide accommodation and support to people who are at risk of homelessness, abuse and other disadvantages and this donation will make a huge difference. The people that we support deserve more than just the essentials – they deserve indulgent items and positive experiences, and we are so thankful that we’re now able to provide just that.
Harbour Housing
I love the ease of signing up to this organisation and knowing that interested parties can contact us to organise donation and delivery. It really helps when you are all unpaid volunteers having this kind of support for our single parent families. Thank you!
SPIN (Single Parent Information Network)
Within a week of signing up we were contacted by someone! The items we receive have been invaluable for families in need.
Community Interest Luton
When I arrived at YMCA Wirral I had very few possessions. In my room waiting for me was a welcome pack filled with lots of different toiletries and a few treats. For the first time in ages, I was able to have a hot shower, wash my hair and feel clean and smell good.
To think that someone, who doesn’t know me, was kind enough to think of me in my desperate situation was like receiving a warm hug.
YMCA Wirral Homeless Client
Ensuring we can get toiletries to our service users is invaluable for their hygiene and health. It also means that the money we raise can go towards our services and helping more homeless young people.
Roundabout Ltd
We have been able to support individuals and families with items that they would not have been able to provide themselves as they would not have been able to afford them. All have been so grateful to been given things that raised their self-esteem such as a lipstick or deodorant.
We Are with You (formerly Addaction)
The donations we’ve received through Toiletries Amnesty have brought happiness and hope to staff and clients in such difficult times. Thank you, Toiletries Amnesty, for making this happen.
YMCA Wirrall
If it were not for the kindness of people like yourself and the support you give, the women and children would not have nice things to cheer them up at a difficult time. Many of our families arrive with nothing having in many cases left everything behind, so it is so good to be able to give them something nice. Thank you all once again.
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