Ria, the local charity shop has stopped taking soft goods like clothes, towels, bedding etc., so they will go in the RNLI / Air Amb / Salvation Army containers. The shop, though not open, will take the phones, mp3, Blu-ray / DVD-CD players, pots and pans and so on as it has an eBay 'shop', all I need to do is get a time to leave them at the door and give them a knock.
Then what I need is a shredder for all the paperwork going back years.... and an outlet for all my old IT books - the basic stuff in them is still relevant even if things have moved on.