British Heart Foundation Furniture & Electrical Stores Reviews 

Turned their nose up at my wall unit because it wasn’t a popular choice. They had the cheek to say this to my face. Claimed it had mold on it when it was just dust. Left after making me feel really bad.

I’ve used this charity regularly over the past two years for both buying and donating, and the in-store staff have generally been helpful. However, I’m extremely disappointed with the house clearance team. First, they failed to turn up, and when they did come round they showed a distinct lack of interest and professionalism. Eventually we received a quote for nearly £9,000 to clear a six-bedroom house—over nine times higher than another quote—and completely unfathomable.
This experience has been hugely disappointing, I doubt I will ever use them again.

The British Heartless foundation would be more appropriate name. How can you have a system where you find time slots online to book, get confirmation email telling the relevant shop might contact you if needed, take time off to await collection, no one shows up, you’re trying to call the relevant shop on number of occasions and never get and answer. The after 5 days you get a call to say you have made an interest to have a collection and we are calling to book you! This is surely taking the mickey! I will not support you in anyway after this treatment as there are other charity organisation that has a much more respectful approach!

I had recently had very bad experience with British Heart Foundation Furniture shop in Westquay Retail Pk, Southampton. Six hour delivery delay as manager had decided to precede my delivery to do a house clearance.I only learnt this by calling the store to ask where my delivery was. Lied to by manager that wrong flat number was given to delivery men when correct flat number is shown clearly on my copy of collection docket. At no point was apology made. Appalling behaviour.

Complaint sent today below. I try and do something good for charity and my expensive property is wrecked! Never again!.

COMPLAINT FAO BRISLINGTON-BRISTOL BRANCH

Mr *****

Flat ******

West Street *****

Bristol

Tel ***********

Formal Complaint – Property Damage and Unsafe Conduct by Sofa Collection Team

Dear British Heart Foundation Customer Support Team,

I am writing to raise a formal complaint regarding a serious incident that occurred during a scheduled sofa collection at my property today.

The sofa had been deliberately positioned in a clear and safe area of my living room to avoid any risk to the valuable items nearby. Despite this, upon arrival, the two delivery drivers handled the sofa in an extremely reckless and heavy‑handed manner. They lifted it without care and then threw it down directly onto a table that was supporting a 35- 40kg polystone, custom‑made Marvel “Thing” statue.

This statue is a high‑end collectable, privately purchased from a specialist collector in South Korea, with an estimated value of £1900 It is irreplaceable with only 34 worldwide, and the damage caused is severe enough that repair is likely to be extremely costly or not possible at all. I am now faced with the likelihood of having to dispose of the item entirely.

What makes this even more unacceptable is that the drivers later informed me they could not take the sofa due to a missing fire label on the underside, despite there being a fire label clearly attached to the top section. This means the reckless handling and resulting damage were entirely unnecessary. My property was damaged for no reason whatsoever.

As well as being an Armed Forces Veteran with PTSD from my time in Afghanistan, this incident has now caused me significant additional emotional and psychological stress. I attempted to do a good thing by donating a sofa to charity, and instead, I have had a valuable personal item destroyed inside my own home due to completely avoidable negligence.

When I reacted to the damage, one of the drivers stated, “Don’t worry, my boss will pay for this,” despite having no confirmation from his employer. When I asked for further details, he refused to provide any information. I subsequently contacted the British Heart Foundation directly to report the incident and have also contacted the police due to the reckless nature of the behaviour and the distress this has caused me. The crime reference number for this report is: **********

For your investigation, I have photos and a short video clearly showing the incompetent drivers and delivery company - inside my property and the resulting damage to the statue.

As the collection was arranged directly through the British Heart Foundation, I expect this matter to be treated with urgency and for liability to be acknowledged accordingly.

I request that you provide:

Confirmation of the next steps regarding compensation for the damage

Details of how this incident will be addressed internally

Assurance that appropriate action will be taken to prevent similar incidents from occurring for other donors

If this matter is not resolved promptly and satisfactorily, I will have no choice but to pursue the issue further through a solicitor and formal legal channels. I would prefer to resolve this directly with you, but I am fully prepared to escalate if necessary.

Please acknowledge receipt of this complaint and outline the formal process moving forward.

Regards

Disgusting never answered the phone when trying to book a furniture collection, lazy people and you wonder why people fly tip, answer the phone it's your job!!

I offered to donate a single bed which is fairly new . I took a day off work. The van driver would not accept the bed as it didn’t have the legs . I have wooden flooring so the bed has always been flat . The only thing I was told is the bed would have to have is the fire warning labels which it does . I don’t think this is a reputable charity anymore . I will not support this organisation again .

BHF Southampton West Quay - AWFUL!!!
Arranged via website to collect brand new items out furniture, fire safety labels included. Never turned up. Spoke to some idiot at store, no idea, not interested, multiple excuses. Have used BHF before, but never again. Dreadful service and idiot staff!!!!

Atrocious collection service. The guys in the shop were wonderful and helpful, the collection team anything but. Almost 2 hours late and then the most insane reason to reject furniture (a small discolouration of a small patch of varnish). Wasted an entire morning waiting for them to turn up for nothing. My honest thought is that the collection team simply could not be bothered to move a heavy bit of furniture.

I'm sure ill get some generic response about how it has to be ready for sale and some other BS. Save your effort. As in future I'll be supporting a different charity.

We had a sofabed, in excellent condition, that we wished to donate to the charity. Having confirmed that it had the requisite fire label, the men from BHF arrived from the Cheltenham branch to collect it.
We were extremely disappointed that those men were unable to take it as it was 'too heavy' and they would have to get it up to the first floor when they got back to the branch.
Luckily the men from Sue Ryder faced no such issues and collected it today. It's just a shame that BHF weren't able to benefit from this donation.

My husband arranged for a collection of a few furniture items most of which had been bought from British heart foundation. The day BHF was supposed to come they never turned up - received no updates throughout the day. They rescheduled collection for today, tuesday 07.04.2026. They arrived late and decided they did not want to take 90 % of things i declared. They said not to worry as there is a company that can recycle all the items for me and they gave me website where, they said, I can arrange for free collection of furniture BHF cannot take. They lied so they can take what looks like new, the 10 percent of things i did not buy from BHF. Second hand furniture, that i bought from bHF in exactly same condition is no longer good enough for them! Thieving, lying British Heart Foundation. They have been going downhill for a long time now. Shame on you. Time wasters!!!! I will never support British Heart Foundation again!!!!

Arranged a pick up of garden furniture. Two men turned up looked at the furniture and left without ringing the bell. The furniture is fine, I am sure they will have a ready made excuse but having donated many, many times over the years, I will look to use another charity.

Old Kent Road Home Store - complete time wasters. I can’t believe they would treat donors like this.

I had a collection booked and confirmed for between 7am-1pm on Thursday 2nd April 2026. Was promised tracking around 7am on the morning. This didn’t arrive until 12:30pm. Tracked the van coming to my address and saw it shoot past me in the main road.

Driver made no attempt to contact me. I tried calling the number on the tracking, which was for the Old Kent Road Home Store. They didn’t answer even though I called multiple times.

I saw on the tracking that the driver left. Nearly an hour later, received a text saying that the driver was arriving shortly, but the tracking shows they cancelled the order.

No one from BHF had the courtesy to contact me to let me know what was going on.

I called BHF HQ to make a formal complaint about how they treat donors. I was donating thousands of pounds worth of good quality furniture, and they made no attempt to try and find the address or contact me.

Job Reference: 700O07-B2603129199

Purchased in-store at Brixton.
The entire staff were friendly and patient. Simon was very helpful in ensuring everything was in order and was very patient during a busy afternoon.

A home delivery was due today, but because of the lift being broken (which we informed them ahead and paid extra) the man and van could not come up. Which is fine. Understandable. No one should break their backs.

Milen from the van called to ask if we were happy to receive the redelivery the next day, was really nice about it. Thanks Milen.

We sent photos to BH F in Weston Super Mare branch. The photos was accepted on our furniture items. We at to wait around 4 weeks for a slot. We drove 40 minutes to parents house. The driver inspected the items and rejected half of the five items. Warning if photos clear BHF scanning process. There is a very good chance they will be rejected and you could be waiting a month.

Really frustrating because it meant we waited a month. BHF approved the photos which is disingenuous if then they are rejected on inspection. We wasted nearly 4 weeks : a 40 minute drive and communication with BHF to get items approved prior to inspection.

Next time I will take items to local recycling centre.

Absolute shit
I’m trying to help people by giving my perfect undamaged sofa to them, but they come and say “there’s no fire safety label” when i clearly told them it is under the cushion but they said it is too much work for us to check. ITS YOUR JOB. this experience reminds me to never bother to waste my time to donate to charity as clearly they have the brain of an ant.

Absolutely disgusting collection staff rude horrible insulted my lovely two year old velvet sofa… I will never donate to this company again unless they get rid of their terrible delivery men! They just could not be bothered!
It is lovely and immaculate…. Just velvet which a nap on it.. A really awful experience… such a shame this company employ these two as the charity needs money and my free sofa would definitely have sold …. I’ve since sold it for 150 pounds! Never again!

Don't waste time trying to donate furniture to this charity. We booked a date for them to collect a dining table and chairs and they never arrived. Tried numerous times to phone the store and got the answer machine every time despite the store being open, left three messages and no-one called back, not even the next day to apologise. Have now donated to another charity who weren't surprised by our experience said they hear the same story all the time.

Long time supporters of the charity so opted to donate a spare bed frame to them. Took it apart and included all the nuts and bolts in a bag. Waited in for pick up but drivers refused it because it ‘wasn’t in saleable condition’ due to some light scratches on one side panel. Took it to another local charity who were pleased with it and they will receive any money from the sale now. They don’t ask for photos on their collection form (unlike other charities) so it seems like a waste of everyone’s time to rely on the driver’s opinion on the day. Cannot recommend this service and will donate elsewhere in future.

Beware using the loading layby outside to park and unload stuff to donate to charity shops in london road, Brighton council parking parasites are watching you via camera waiting to pounce and issue you with a PARKING CHARGE FINE OF £35, real shame just another way the council are ruining brighton