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Donate for a Cause: How Wigmore Trading Helps You Support Charity with Stationery Donations

Education Technology & Learning Solutions By wigmoretrading August 27, 2023
Donate for a Cause: How Wigmore Trading Helps You Support Charity with Stationery Donations

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The pens in your stock cupboard could fill a classroom

Exercise books, pens and pencils are the everyday things a lesson can’t happen without — and the everyday things offices and families throw away. Send us your spare stationery and we’ll get it into children’s hands in Nigeria and Ghana.

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Box of donated stationery and school supplies

You can’t learn without something to write withAn exercise book and a pen are the minimum a child needs to take part in a lesson — and for many families they’re a recurring cost that competes with everything else.

Surplus stock is perfectOver-ordered pens, old-branding notebooks, end-of-line stationery. Useless to your office, ideal for a classroom — and better than a skip.

We cover the shippingMoving goods into West Africa is our day job. You get it to our UK address; we handle freight, customs and delivery at our own cost.
It’s this simple

Three steps.

1

Gather what you have

Pens, pencils, exercise books, rulers, calculators. New or barely used — it just needs to work.

2

Post it to us

Send it to our UK address below, marked “School Children in Africa Donation”. That’s the whole process.

3

We do the rest

We ship it, clear customs and hand it to schools and community partners in Nigeria and Ghana.

Step 2

Where to send your donation

Post donations to
Shalom Ministries International
47A High Street
Arlesey
SG15 6SW
Please mark the package:“School Children in Africa Donation”

Clearing a stock cupboard? If you have pallets or several boxes, message us first — we can often arrange collection rather than have you pay to post it.
Optional, but it helps

Let us know it’s coming

You don’t have to — you can simply post your parcel. But if you tell us, we can look out for it and thank you properly.

Tell us about your donation

Takes about thirty seconds

Please add your name and a way to reach you.

This opens WhatsApp with your message ready — just press send.
Prefer email? Write to sales@wigmoretrading.com

Helpful to know

What to send

Yes please

  • Exercise books, notebooks and refill pads
  • Pens, pencils, sharpeners and erasers
  • Rulers, geometry sets, protractors
  • Calculators — scientific ones especially
  • Colouring pencils, crayons, art supplies
  • Folders, files and document wallets
  • Textbooks and reading books
  • School bags and pencil cases
Branded stock is fine. Children genuinely don’t mind whose logo is on a notebook — if it’s usable, send it.

Please don’t

  • Dried-out pens and markers
  • Opened glue, paint or anything that can leak in transit
  • Used books with heavy writing throughout
  • Anything broken or missing parts
  • Food, medicines or toiletries — import restrictions
Not ingratitude — these can’t reach a child, and leaking items can ruin an entire box of otherwise good donations.
For businesses & schools

Every office has a cupboard like this

Somewhere in most businesses there’s stationery nobody will ever use. It gets ordered, superseded, and quietly binned when the storeroom needs the space.

  • Over-ordered stock that arrived in bulk and never got used
  • Old-branding items — notebooks, folders and pens carrying a logo or address you’ve since changed
  • End-of-line or discontinued stationery lines
  • Office moves and closures, where cupboards get emptied at speed
  • Schools clearing supplies at the end of an academic year

All of it is perfectly good, and all of it is exactly what a classroom needs. If you have a meaningful quantity, tell us what you’ve got — we can often collect rather than have you pay to ship it, and we’ll confirm what arrived and where it went.

Every time someone gets in touch wanting to help, it means a great deal to us — and we never take it for granted.

A box of exercise books costs you storeroom space. It gives a class a term’s worth of work. That isn’t a small trade, and we’re grateful for it.

We handle every donation with care, and make sure it reaches the children who benefit most. Thank you for being part of it.

Martin NwikeDirector, Wigmore Trading
Questions

Anything else?

Does it really reach children in Africa?
Yes. Wigmore Trading is a logistics and trading company shipping goods into Nigeria and Ghana every week, with our own warehousing and customs clearance. Donations travel through infrastructure that already exists, and are given to schools and community partners who hand them directly to children. Most well-meaning donation drives stall at a port — that’s the part we’re able to solve.
Does the stationery need to be new?
No. New is welcome, but usable is the only real standard — a part-used notebook with clean pages left, a pen that writes, a calculator that works. What we can’t use is anything dried out, broken or full.
Can my company donate branded stationery?
Absolutely, and it’s one of the most useful donations we receive. Notebooks and pens carrying an old logo are no use to your office and perfectly good in a classroom. See the section above for how businesses usually do this.
Can you collect from us?
Often, yes — if the quantity justifies it. Message us with roughly what you have and where you are, and we’ll tell you honestly whether collection makes sense or posting is simpler.
Can I donate money instead?
This programme runs on physical donations, because shipping and distributing goods is what we’re set up to do. Wigmore Trading is a trading company rather than a registered charity, so we don’t collect money here. If you’d like to give financially, get in touch and we’ll point you to our charity partners.
Can I donate uniforms too?
Yes please — same address, same process. We run a school uniform donation programme alongside this one, and uniforms and stationery travel together.

Donations are collected in the UK in partnership with Shalom Ministries International and distributed in Nigeria and Ghana with Trinity Healthcare Plus and local school and community partners. Wigmore Trading Limited is a trading and logistics company, not a registered charity, and does not collect monetary donations through this page. Donated goods are handled with care but given voluntarily; we cannot guarantee a specific recipient for an individual item. Items unsuitable for the programme are passed to other charitable causes where possible. Please do not send food, medicines, toiletries or items that may leak in transit.

A cupboard you’d clear anyway. A term of schoolwork.

It costs you the storeroom space and a postage label.

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