Charity shops in Guildford
- 13 shops
- 11 charity
- 2 book & second-hand
- 1 walking route
- within 6 km of the centre
The High Street run is where to go in Guildford, 9 shops in 17 minutes, and High Street alone has 5 of them. Oxfam has 2 branches in the city. Guildford has 13 shops in total, 11 charity shops and 2 bookshops.
Chains with several branches: Oxfam (2)
Book-hunting routes
1 routeShops a few minutes' walk apart, in walking order. Do a run in one go and the outliers another day.
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High Street run9 shops
Shooting Star Children's Hospices → Oxfam Bookshop → Cancer Research UK → Phyllis Tuckwell → 5 more
· ~17 min
Showing 13 shops
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Shooting Star Children's Hospices Charity shop
High Street · GU1 3HE
Mon–Sat 09:30–17:00 · High Street run · stop 1
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Save the Children Charity shop
Jeffries Passage · GU1 4AP
Mon–Sat 10:00–16:00 · High Street run · stop 6
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Oxfam Bookshop Second-hand bookshop
High Street · GU1 3JD
Mon–Sat 09:30–17:30 · High Street run · stop 2
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Cancer Research UK Charity shop
High Street · GU1 3JJ
Mon–Fri 09:00–17:30 · High Street run · stop 3
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Phyllis Tuckwell Charity shop
Phoenix Court · GU1 3EG
Mon–Sat 09:30–16:30 · High Street run · stop 8
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The Book Shed Second-hand bookshop
Thu–Mon 11:00–17:00
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Woking Hospice Charity shop3.0 km
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Debra Charity Shop Charity shop5.1 km
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Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice Charity shop5.1 km
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Book hunting in Guildford
Nearest-first is a decent route plan on its own: cluster your visits, start with the shops closest to 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.
8 of the shops here have their opening hours on record, and 5 of those open on Sundays. Where no hours are listed, nobody has recorded them yet.
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.
Donating books in Guildford
11 of the shops here are charity-run and take book donations during opening hours. If you pay UK income tax, filling in a Gift Aid form at the till lets the shop claim an extra 25% on whatever your books sell for, at no cost to you. Shops pay to dispose of what they cannot sell, so a bad donation costs the charity money. The test before you pack a bag: would someone buy this today? Recent fiction, classics, cookery and children's books move. Old textbooks, out-of-date travel guides and anything damp or mouldy do not.
Our guide to where to donate books covers which shops suit which books, and what to do with a whole house clear-out.
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