Donate to Rainbow Junktion

We need your help to keep Rainbow Junktion open and serving our community.

The next couple of years are yet again looking to be quite bleak for the poorest in society and we want to make sure that we’re in the best position possible to support those who need it.

We are incredibly grateful for both physical and financial donations, please see below for more details.

Financial donations

One-off donations

These are always welcome and can be made on our Give A Little page (no fees). Please Gift Aid your donation if you’re eligible so we can get 25% extra from HMRC!

Become a Friend of Rainbow Junktion

We are looking to grow our regular financial supporters so that we can plan for the future. As a Friend of Rainbow Junktion we’ll keep you in the loop about our goings-on via a quarterly newsletter, let you know when we’re running fundraising events and other ways you can be involved. As a token of our eternal appreciation we’d love you to have your choice of a special RJ branded Tote Bag or T-shirt. Please fill in this short googleform to become a Friend of Rainbow Junktion.

Corporate giving

If you are a business who would like to support us please get in touch with cafe manager, Nic, to arrange a lunch meeting.

Donations of food and other supplies

How to donate items

We can accept donations/deliveries between 10am-4pm on Mondays and Thursdays directly to us at All Hallows’ Church, 24 Regent Terrace, LS6 1NP

What to donate

A wish list is posted regularly on our social media pages, please take a look at them especially if you are specifically buying things for us.

We can generally accept:

  • Fresh fruit and vegetables

  • Unopened tinned food and dry food (even if past best before date as this is a quality not health control)

  • Unopened frozen food that is labelled and dated

  • Unopened bread/bakery products

  • Eggs up to a week past their best before date

  • Opened spices/oils

  • Pet food

  • Toilet paper

  • Sanitary towels/tampons

  • Clean plastic shopping bags

  • Clean tupperware with matching lids

We cannot accept:

  • Food past it’s use by date that hasn’t been frozen on that date (this is a legal and health requirement)

  • Very mouldy/completely unusable food - we always try and save food if we can but we never want to put peoples health at risk.

  • Toiletries and cleaning products - we are now focusing on food so can no longer accept these, please send to your local hygiene bank.

  • Clothes - please take to Leeds Grand Mosque for their weekly clothing bank or St Vincent’s who provide free clothes for refugee and asylum seeking people

  • Kitchenware - this is a bit more complicated as we do occasionally need things, please check with cafe manager, Nic, before bringing to RJ

  • Other household items - please take to your local charity shop

  • Baby products - please take to the Leeds Baby Bank

  • Sleeping bags/tents - please take to one of the many excellent homelessness charities in Leeds