Donate your Pile of Shame

How it works

  • 1.

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    Fill a box with old tabletop gaming stuff

    Miniatures, scenery, dice, paints, brushes etc.

  • 2.

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    We ship it to the charity for free

    All donations are delivered directly to Game Therapy UK.

  • 3.

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    Your stuff is used to provide tabletop gaming therapy

    For those with autism, special education needs, chronic disease etc
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Learn more

What's a Pile of Shame❓

Those minis you bought and never opened. 3D printed orks with one ear missing. Faded old dice.

The Pile of Shame is all your hobby stuff that, realistically, you're never going to use.

(If in doubt, ask your wife.)

Dungeons & Dragons as therapy

Our charity partner (Game Therapy UK, reg: 1201860) uses tabletop gaming to help kids and adults who normally find it excessively difficult to socialise.

The rules and fictional identities in games like D&D are a perfect mix for participants to feel safe and venture forward from social isolation.

Projects are run with licensed professionals for:

  • autism/neurodivergence (young)
  • special education (young)
  • muscular distrophy (young)
  • veterans (adult)
  • in recovery or homeless (adult)

❓ D&D therapy? Is that a real thing?

Tabletop RPGs have been extensively studied as an effective and enjoyable therapeutic approach.

Games like Dungeons & Dragons provide a structured setting where social interactions are simplified and cooperative, and identities are fictionalised.

Under the guidance of licensed professionals, game therapy has been shown to help build

  • social skills
  • empathy
  • emotional control
  • new behaviour models
  • calculated risk taking
  • trauma acceptance

TLDR: It's a way to practice socialising for people that find it very difficult to socialise.

❓ What will happen to my donation

Both cash and item donations are going straight to the charity. We don't touch any of it, and don't charge any fees.

Hobby item donations will mainly be used to put on group therapy sessions. They may also be gifted to participants directly if counsellors believe it would benefit their development.

Cash donations will mainly be used to put on more projects at more locations. Game Therapy UK is run by volunteers, and only has low administration costs.

All donations are "unrestricted funds", which is a technical term to say that the charity may use them as they best see fit, they don't need to spend it all on a specific project.

❓ About Game Therapy UK

Game Therapy UK (reg: 1201860) is an international charity providing therapy to individuals facing social isolation or trauma.

The organisation is run by volunteers: clinicians, therapists, psychologists, educators and avid gamers.

In addition to providing therapy, Game Therapy UK is also facilitating research to study the effects of therapeutic gaming, and develop teachable best-practices.

❓ Why is Yes, That's 3D Printed and FauxHammer doing this

We realised that we are in a fairly privileged position: we can say something and many people will listen.

We have the ear of hobbyists, miniature businesses, influencers etc.

We'd like to try to do some good with this in whatever small way we can.

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📦 Donate hobby items 📦

🌎 Locations (UK, USA, Canada, Australia)

Game Therapy UK has projects in the countries above.

If you are from here, you can send physical donations 👍

Other countries: Sadly we aren't able to accept physical donations from other countries. If you would like to contribute, please consider a cash donation.

🎲 What you can donate

Items can be new, used, painted or unpainted. Damaged stuff is totally fine, as long as it's usable.

For any doubts, contact us.

✅ Items you can donate

  • Miniatures (3D prints, Warhammer, D&D etc)
  • Wargaming and RPG stuff (scenery, dice, battle mats etc)
  • Miniature hobby tools (paints, brushes etc)
  • Resin printing tools (UK only please)

❌ Items not to donate

  • toys, stuffed animals
  • board games
  • video games
  • books, comic books

📦 How to send

  1. Pack your items securely in a box.
  2. Request a free shipping label using the button below.
    (You can also ship using any other method to one of the project locations.)
  3. Print the shipping label, and attach it to your box.
  4. Take the box to a drop-off location (we'll give you a list of nearby options)

That's it!

Request shipping labelContact us for help

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💳 Donate cash 💳

💸 What are cash donations used for?

Game Therapy UK is run by unpaid volunteers, and has very low administration costs.

If you donate cash, it will mainly be used to set up more projects, and take on more therapy patients.

All donations are "unrestricted funds", which is a technical term to say that the charity may use them as they best see fit, they don't need to spend it all on a specific project.

🎗️ What is Tiltify?

Tiltify is a popular fundraising platform.

Donations on Tiltify go directly to the charity.

Yes, That's 3D printed or FauxHammer do not have access to the funds at any point.

Donate cash via Tiltify