Shopping


A directory of second hand & charity shops in Leeds.

Who'd have thought there were so many charity shops in Leeds??? I've added all of them that I know of, now. If you would like to add a shop to the list, or send in a review, please email me at
pilotlightleeds@gmail.com






Mosaic Arts and Crafts Market ... is a project to support artists and crafts people through setting up a unique market in Leeds where people can sell and exhibit their work. Mosaic are also keen to support performers through artsmix, a partner organisation. The market is held every 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month in Chancellors Court (Leeds city centre, just behind the Corn Exchange).

Next Markets: 9th Mar, 23rd Mar, 13th April, 27th April.

Charity Shops


Oxfam Charity Shop



15-17, Duncan St
LS1 6DQ
0113 246 8486
Customer Review - Overpriced, poorly stocked, with the retro stall cramed full of tat only otley runners wear. Poor.
Oxfam website

PDSA for pets in need of vets



28, Central Rd
LS1 6DE
0113 246 5752
PDSA website

SCOPE



29-33 The Headrow
LS1 6PU
0113 2440832
SCOPE website

British Heart Foundation



Vicar Lane
LS1
British Heart Foundation website

RSPCA



10-12 New Market Street
LS1 6DG
RSPCA website

Shelter



10 Duncan Street
LS1 6DL
0113 2451575
Shelter website











Oxfam Bookshop



9, Otley Rd
LS6 3AA
0113 274 3818
Customer Review - A dangerous vortex that sucks out your money. A brilliant selection of books, well presented and managed. Many hours of idle browsing can be spent here; theres always some interesting curio tucked away.
Oxfam website

Retro Boutique



(2nd Hand)
8 - 10 Headingley Lane (Hyde Park Corner)
LS6 2AS
0113 2782653
In the great but sadly dwindling tradition of second hand shops at Hyde Park Corner, this place is a treasure trove of retro furniture, clothes, nic-nacs, houseware. Home to several different traders who share the large shop, this is the place where I bought what is, quite simply, the most comfortable chair in the world. Less letting agents, more of this kind of stuff!

British Heart Foundation



Arndale Centre, Otley Rd
LS6 2UE
0113 224 9699
Customer Review - My best ever charity shop purchase is a leopard print shirt which I got from here - very kitsch! So now you know.
British Heart Foundation website

The Community Shop
14, Green Rd
LS6 4JP
0113 275 3533
Help the Aged Shop
1, The Parade, Headingley
LS6 3HP
0113 274 0032
Help The Aged website

Oxfam Charity Shop



45-47, Otley Rd, Leeds
LS6 3AB
0113 275 1734
Oxfam website

PDSA Shop for pets in need of vets



57, Otley Rd, Headingley
LS6 3AB
0113 274 6634
PDSA website

Martin House Shop



5 Otley Road, LS6 3AA
0113 2754996
Customer Review - The place to buy all your marks and spencers pink shirts, copys of jaws and video tapes of minder/snooker from 1986. Like the charity shop in the league of gentleman; spartan, nothing in it and dingy. You come out of it with a depression that is impossible to remove.
Martin House website

Poverty Aid UK
165 Cardigan Road
LS6 1QL
Monday - Saturday 10am - 6pm
Sunday 1pm - 4pm
0113 2744099
Poverty Aid UK website

Sue Ryder Care Wheatfields Hospice
Grove Road, Headingley
LS6 2AE
0113 2787249
Strange opening hours... Please call before visiting!
Sue Ryder website



St Gemma's Hospice
112 Harrogate Road
LS7 4NY
0113 3930606
St Gemma's Hospice website

Salvation Army
175 Meanwood Road
LS7 1JW
0113 2442960
Salvation Army website



St. Vincent's Community Shops
227, Lidgett Lane
LS8 1RB
0113 288 8874
St Vincent de Paul Society website

Help the Aged Shop
45, Street Lane
LS8 1AP
0113 268 7159
Help The Aged website

R.S.P.C.A. Shop
59 Street Lane, Roundhay
LS8 1AP
0113 2888466
RSPCA website

St Gemma's Hospice
645 Roundhay Road
LS8 4BA
0113 2496670
St Gemma's Hospice website

St Gemma's Hospice
49 Street Lane
LS8 1AP
0113 2888838
St Gemma's Hospice website



R.S.P.C.A. Shop



327 Harehills Lane
LS9 6AX
0113 2401828
RSPCA website

R.S.P.C.A. Shop
Shannon Street
LS9 8SS
0113 2495231
RSPCA website

St Gemma's Hospice





385 Harehills Lane
LS9 6AP
0113 2405272
St Gemma's Hospice website



St. Vincents Community Shop Middleton
20, Town St
LS10 3PN
0113 276 0576
St Vincent de Paul Society website

St. Vincents De Paul Society Shops
88, Lincoln Green Rd
LS9 7SU
0113 248 6341
St Vincent de Paul Society website



St Gemma's Hospice
Unit 4, Beeston District Centre, Town Street, Beeston
LS11 8PN
St Gemma's Hospice website



British Heart Foundation Shops
32, Town St, Armley
LS12 3AB
0113 279 7907
British Heart Foundation website

St. Vincents Community Shop - Armley
40, Heights Drive
LS12 3SU
0113 231 9631
St Vincent de Paul Society website

Cancer Research UK
39, Town St
LS12 1UX
0113 279 1304
Cancer Research UK website

R.S.P.C.A. Shop
56 Town Street, Armley
LS12 3AA
0113 2791221
RSPCA website

YMCA Shop
12 Town Street, Armley
LS12 3AB
0113 2038733
YMCA website



Barnardo's
28 Bramley Centre
0113 256 3283
Barnardo's website

British Heart Foundation
11, Bramley Centre
LS13 2ET
113 239 3848
British Heart Foundation website

PDSA Shop for pets in need of vets
Unit 6, Bramley Shopping Centre, Bramley
LS13 2ET
0113 239 4762
PDSA website

R.S.P.C.A. Shop
47 Bramley Shopping Centre
LS13 2ET
0113 2394671
RSPCA website



St. Vincents Community Shop
41, Ramshead Hill
LS14 1BT
0113 265 1963
St Vincent de Paul Society website



Is this the densest concentration of charity shops in Leeds? Six of them in the space of 100 paces on Austhorpe Road in Crossgates...



Oxfam Charity Shop



12a, Austhorpe Rd, Crossgates
LS15 8DX
0113 260 4843
Oxfam website

St Gemma's Hospice



12b Austhorpe Road
LS15 8DX
0113 2649307
St Gemma's Hospice website

PDSA Shop for pets in need of vets



14, Austhorpe Rd, Crossgates
LS15 8DX
0113 232 6786
PDSA website

R.S.P.C.A. Shop



16 Austhorpe Road, Crossgates
LS15 8DX
0113 2328209
RSPCA website

British Heart Foundation



20, Austhorpe Rd
LS15 8DX
0113 264 0528
British Heart Foundation website

Barnardo's



24 Austhorpe Road, Crossgates
0113 2602380
Barnardo's website

Sue Ryder Care
60 Austhorpe Road, Crossgates
LS15 8DX
0113 2606593
Sue Ryder website


Barnardo's

245 Selby Road, Halton
0113 2606954
Barnardo's website


St. Vincents Community Shop - Tinshill
8, Silk Mill Drive
LS16 6DX
0113 267 5257
St Vincent de Paul Society website

Butcher Hill St. Vincents Community Shop
183, Butcher Hill
LS16 5DA
0113 274 5839
St Vincent de Paul Society website

Kidz in Kampz
11 Shopping Centre, Holt Rd
LS16 7SR
0113 267 6800



St. Vincents Community Shop - Mootown
61, Cranmer Bank
LS17 5JD
0113 393 0350
St Vincent de Paul Society website

Cancer Research UK
380, Harrogate Rd
LS17 6PY
0113 268 1510
Cancer Research UK website

Oxfam Charity Shop
394, Harrogate Rd, Moortown
LS17 6PY
0113 266 8112
Oxfam website

St Gemma's Hospice
728 King Lane
LS17 7BA
0113 2673675
St Gemma's Hospice website



Cancer Research UK
14, Town St, Horsforth
LS18 4RJ
0113 239 0091
Cancer Research UK website

Help the Aged Shop
17, Town St, Horsforth
LS18 5LJ
0113 258 0727
Help The Aged website

Oxfam Charity Shop
19a, Town St, Horsforth
LS18 5LJ
0113 258 7950
Oxfam website

St Gemma's Hospice
29 Town Street, Horsforth
LS18 5LJ
0113 2585761
St Gemma's Hospice website

Sue Ryder Care
33b Town Street, Horsforth
LS18
Sue Ryder website



Easter Saturday, 2008

Riding the crest of an mildly alcoholic bipolar upswing in mood, I text my good friend Gethyn Pugh & make plans to meet up in Yeadon, to hit the charity shops there.
On the beautiful 97 bus ride out to Yeadon (well worth the £2.70 for a dayrider in its own right)
Sunshine on snow & daffodils
Thinking of paradizziac early century summer afternoons on piltzer&prosecco
& hoping for more such nights
Listening to Suede Coming Up
'Here they come, the Beautiful Ones'
Going to talk death with Geth
Can things gets any better?
'It's connected to the sound, & it moves through the underground'.

Oxfam Charity Shop





Peter Ackroyd's Milton in America, a bit of a gamble... But I haven't read a novel in ages.

75a, High St, Yeadon
LS19 7SP
0113 250 3869
Oxfam website

Help the Aged Shop





Black & white Addidas top, 99p.

Gethyn buys a thing from here. See...
CALL MY STUFF!!!

9, High St, Yeadon
LS19 7SP
0113 250 2836
Help The Aged website

Sue Ryder Care



Gethyn invents a system for remembering what order we visited the shops in.

This one is a bit weird. A few too many new things. Geth & I are not too sure about the merits or otherwise of charity shops selling new things... There is no reason why they shouldn't in order to make money, but they are frequently very weird things. This shop sells tiny wardrobes. What possible use can a tiny wardrobe be?

49 High Street, Yeadon
LS19 7SP
0113 3910688
Sue Ryder website


St Gemma's Hospice



The lady in this shop is listening to a bizarre spanish cover version of Crowded House's Don't Dream It's Over, & she has a tortoise-shaped ochranina for sale, but beyond that, there is little to hold our interest.

21 High Street, Yeadon
LS19 7SP
0113 2029080
St Gemma's Hospice website

I drink three pints of Guinness with Geth, in the Unit & the Aviator, fall asleep on the bus back into town, drink three glasses of wine at 42NewBriggate, then have to go home & fall asleep at 7.30 in the evening, after eating half a pizza, which is why I am now awake at 4.30 in the morning. Is this a constructive use of my time?

I am pleased with myself for starting this quest, of visiting every charity shop in Leeds.


Barnardo's
30 Otley Road, Guiseley
LS20 8AH
01942870006
Barnardo's website

Help the Aged Shop
49, Oxford Rd, Guiseley
LS20 8AB
01943 877884
Help The Aged website





Cheshire Home Shop
4, Cross St, Wetherby
LS22 6RD
01937 581617

Help the Aged Shop
10, Market Place, Wetherby
LS22 6NE
01937 588291
Help The Aged website

Oxfam Charity Shop
1, Westgate House,Westgate, Wetherby
LS22 6LL
01937 585718
Oxfam website

St Gemma's Hospice
5b Market Place, Wetherby
LS22 6LQ
01937 587453
St Gemma's Hospice website



Martin House Shops
186, High St, Boston Spa, Wetherby
LS23 6BT
01937 845000
Martin House website



Help the Aged Shop
51, Main St, Garforth
LS25 1AF
0113 286 9667
Help The Aged website

The Prince of Wales Hospice Shop
40 Hight Street, Kippax
LS25 7AB
0113 2863643
Prince of Wales Hospice website

R.S.P.C.A. Shop
105 Main Street, Garforth
LS25 1AF
0113 2860900
RSPCA website

St Gemma's Hospice
43 Main Street, Garforth
LS25 1DS
0113 2875970
St Gemma's Hospice website

Sue Ryder Care
133 Main Street, Garforth
LS25 1AF
0113 2864084
Sue Ryder website

Thorne House Services for Autism
53 Main Street, Garforth
LS25 1AF
0113 2877741
National Autistic Society website



Help the Aged Shop
41, Commercial St, Rothwell
LS26 0AP
0113 282 7503
Help The Aged website

R.S.P.C.A. Shop
40 Commerical Street, Rothwell
LS26 0AW
0113 2887805
RSPCA website



Arthritis Research Campaign
117A Queen Street, Morley
0113 253 6881
Arthritis Research Campaign website

British Heart Foundation
Unit 2, 86c, Queen St, Morley
LS27 9BP
0113 238 1363
British Heart Foundation website

The Children's Society
72, Queen St, Morley
LS27 9BP
0113 253 2161
The Children's Society website

Help the Aged Shop
107a, Queen St, Morley
LS27 8DW
0113 259 7337
Help The Aged website

Oxfam Charity Shop
1b, Albion St, Morley
LS27 8DT
0113 252 2521
Oxfam website

St Gemma's Hospice
25 Lidget Hill, Pudsey
LS27 7LG
0113 2557788
St Gemma's Hospice website

SCOPE
86 Queen Street, Morley
LS27 9BP
0113 2525843
SCOPE website

Wakefield Hospice Shop
97 Queen Street, Morley
LS27 8DW
0113 3075360
Wakefield Hospice website



Help the Aged Shop
4, Lowtown, Pudsey
LS28 7AA
0113 255 3341
Help The Aged website

R.S.P.C.A. Shop
43 Lidget Hill, Pudsey
LS28 7LJ
0113 2361770
RSPCA website

SCOPE
7 Low Town, Pudsey
LS28 7BQ
0113 2393290
SCOPE website


Win things...

It's high quality Le Creuset stuff, it cost £2.50 from Yeadon Help The Aged Shop, but what the hell is it? I don't know. Geth didn't know (& he can cook). The lady in the shop didn't know...





The least sensible suggestion emailed to
pilotlightleeds@gmail.com wins the... thing. Whatever it is!