Charity shops in Cardiff

60 charity shops and second-hand bookshops within 8 km of Cardiff city centre, sorted nearest first — 43 charity shops plus 17 book and second-hand shops.

Cardiff punches well above its weight for second-hand books — the charity-shop rows of Albany Road and Wellfield Road in Roath are a book hunter's circuit in themselves, and the city centre arcades add a layer of independent and antiquarian shops on top.

Chains with multiple branches here: Cancer Research (5) · Barnardo (3) · Marie Curie (3) · British Heart Foundation (2)

Charity shops

Ty Hafan

0.1 km
Ethical Boutique

Cathedral Walk, Cardiff

0.3 km
RSPCA

90, Cowbridge Road East, Cardiff

1.3 km
Marie Curie

193, Cowbridge Road East, Cardiff

1.3 km
PDSA

229, Cowbridge Road East, Cardiff

1.4 km
Tenovus

1.4 km
RSPCA

1.5 km
British Heart Foundation

Albany Road, Cardiff

1.5 km
Cancer Research UK

152, Cowbridge Road East, Cardiff

1.5 km
Inter-Aid

58, Crwys Road, Cardiff

1.5 km
British Heart Foundation

1.5 km
Greyhound Rescue Wales

1.5 km
Cerebral Palsy Cymru

1.6 km
Barnardo's

1.6 km
Tenovus

1.7 km
The Salvation Army

316, Cowbridge Road East, Cardiff

2.2 km
Mind

338, Cowbridge Road East, Cardiff

2.3 km
Catwell

2.4 km
Tenovus Cancer Care

43, Whitchurch Road, Cardiff

2.4 km
YMCA

2.6 km
Cancer Research UK

Newport Road, Cardiff

2.6 km
Noah's Ark Children's Hospital Charity

3.5 km
Sue Ryder

4.3 km
City Hospice

4.3 km
Ty Hafan

4.3 km
Hapus Wales

117

4.4 km
Cancer Research UK

4.5 km
Marie Curie

4.5 km
Tenovus

Windsor Road

4.7 km
Marie Curie

4.7 km
Oxfam

8, Windsor Road

4.8 km
PDSA

6, Windsor Road

4.8 km
Ty hafan

4.8 km
British Red Cross

4.9 km
Cancer Research Wales

4.9 km
City Hospice

5.0 km
Tenovus

8C, Heol y Deri, Cardiff

5.1 km
City Hospice

5.2 km
Cancer Research Wales

5.2 km
Cerebral Palsy Cymru

5.2 km
City Hospice Charity Shop

5.3 km
Barnardo's

5.8 km
Barnardo's

Countisbury Avenue, Cardiff

5.9 km

Bookshops & second-hand

The Works

0.1 km
Forbidden Planet International

5, Duke Street, Cardiff

0.1 km
Bear Island

Cardiff

0.2 km
Troutmark Books

39-43, Castle Arcade, Cardiff

0.2 km
Waterstones

0.2 km
TGJones

Queen Street, Cardiff

0.3 km
Caban

169, King's Road, Cardiff

1.5 km
Shelf Life

188, Cowbridge Road East, Cardiff

1.6 km
Wellfield Bookshop

16, Wellfield Road, Cardiff

1.8 km
one2two

122, Whitchurch Road, Cardiff

2.3 km
Cant a Mil

11, Whitchurch Road, Cardiff

2.3 km
BOOKS Plus

The Concourse, University Hospital Of Wales, Cardiff

2.9 km
Butler's Books

3.4 km
The Cabin

4.2 km
Griffin Books

9a, Windsor Road, Penarth

4.8 km
WHSmith

12, Windsor Road

4.8 km
The Works

7.7 km

Book hunting in Cardiff

The list above is sorted by distance from the centre, which is also a decent route plan: cluster your visits, start with the shops nearest each other, and save the outliers for days you're passing anyway. Charity shops re-shelve constantly — most put new donations out every day or two — so a shop that was quiet on Saturday can be a different shop by Wednesday. Weekday mornings beat weekend afternoons, and it's always worth asking a volunteer when the book trolley comes out.

If you want the odds on your side, read our guides to finding good books in charity shops and spotting the books worth grabbing before you set out.

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Nearby: Charity shops in Newport · Charity shops in Bristol · Charity shops in Swansea · Charity shops in Bath

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