Where to donate Xbox 360

[Billie87]

My daughters father gave her an Xbox 360 a few years ago. Now I’ll explain before you read this that I don’t understand if this console is still up to date 😂 please correct me if it’s outdated and worthless.
Anyway, its never really been played with. She doesn’t want and nor do I.
Where can I take it? If I take it to a charity shop around where I live I worry it might fall in the hands of someone not quite as deserving.
Her friends aren’t interested and I don’t particularly want to sell it.
Does anyone know a family who would want this Xbox for Christmas?
Sorry if this is breaking any Mumsnet rules!

A local children’s hospital
Maybe?

Children’s hospice? Teenage Cancer Trust?

Have you got a local womens refuge, like womens aid? Or perhaps a childrens ward although I'm not sure how strict they would be with electrical donations.

Oh good idea ! I’ll have a google

There is a newer model (the Xbox one) but I bet there is still someone who would appreciate this.

I think I would try the local hospital children's ward.

Where can I take it? If I take it to a charity shop around where I live I worry it might fall in the hands of someone not quite as deserving.
I don't really understand this, charity shops tend to know the value of items and price accordingly and that money will go to charity.

Not a children's ward or hospice, they generally have stuff coming out of their ears (I work in a related speciality, stuff donated to the children's ward here gets sold off dirt cheap to staff several times a year), but a hospital area which isn't solely for children but has children or teens using it, like an ultrasound dept or something, would be more likely to use it and be v happy to be offered anything.

On the other hand, so what if you give it to the charity shop and its bought by someone 'not so deserving'? Not so deserving as who? Once you give it away you don't control who gets to have it - and as I said, giving to a children's ward doesn't mean it'll end up with the 'deserving', what a strange attitude to have towards something you don't want or need.

Sainsbury’s have toy donation boxes!

A refugee charity for families resettling in your area.

As mentioned above, children's wards tend to get a lot of donations. Refugees are often overlooked, and in my experience will welcome you with open arms.

Children’s ward or the houses that families can stay in whilst children are in hospital long term so that siblings can have some enjoyment.

I’d not charity shop or donate it to a toy appeal either.

If you can't find somewhere to donate it to, a CEX store will give you a bit of cash for it that you could donate. Not worth much at all anymore.

If I take it to a charity shop around where I live I worry it might fall in the hands of someone not quite as deserving.

What do you mean by this? Do you think the shop workers would take it for themselves rather than sell it? Or are you being judgey about the people who shop in the charity shops?

I don’t think the OP is suggesting anything like that. Just that plenty of people who can afford full price items are also happy to buy second hand for less. They’re doing nothing wrong, but OP is hoping to give it to someone who otherwise really wouldn’t have had it.

I second women’s refuges or refugee centre.

I mean that I don’t particularly want a well Off person to go in and buy it when it could go to someone who will never otherwise be able to have one

I've volunteered in a very well known charity shop before and trust me other volunteers and the manager did take expensive donated items home at a very very low price, certainly much lower than it would have been had it been put out for sale. And yes I did complain which is why I no longer volunteer.

They aren't worth that much now anyway so someone without much money would probably be able to afford one without going to a charity shop.
Equally, a person who can afford to buy one normally wouldn't buy that model anyway - they would get the latest model (Xbox One - or wait for the next one to come out, if it hasn't already, which is supposed to be amazing) as they would either already have the xbox 360 gathering dust, or they will have had it and given it away to charity or sold it/part exchanged it to get the newer model.
However the whole point of a charity shop is for the charity themselves to receive money out of the sale of things - whether that be £1 or £1000. The ones who benefit are the people (or animals, research etc) that the charity is helping to fund. They don't discriminate who they sell to. I don't think you should worry about it either. Just choose your favourite charity if it is that important to you. Or give it direct to a women and children's refuge or something...?

Ebay it and donate to a charity?

There is a charity local to us who collect toys and distribute them to families for Xmas presents. Our church has a ‘Toy service’ to collect toys for it. Is there something similar near you?

Depending on the memory etc. you could trade it in to Cash Convertors or CEX and then give the money to charity/a foodbank?

Charity shops don’t except anything electronic

It isn't worth much at all now being outdated so most people would go to CEX and buy one for about £40/50 anyway. Our local charity shops don't accept electrical items now as they have to pay people to test them. You could put it on free cycle and give to the person whose story you think is the most deserving

A well off person isn’t going to want a second hand out dated Xbox in a charity shop, and let’s just say they did the charity would get however much they paid for it.

You’ve got an old piece of tech, not the latest version. You can buy your Xbox brand new on amazon for £64.99.

Nobody is going to bow down and be oh so worthy of your old Xbox I’m afraid

If you trade it into CEX they buy for £23.00

Lots of people buy them at CEX for their young kids to play the Lego games and similar. As the nice CEX staff explained, the newer consoles are mainly to play the latest games which tend to be rated 15/18 - might as well start with a cheap older console and see if it gets used.