Call usWe need your old prescription glasses
Lions clubs have been collecting and recycling unwanted pairs of glasses since 1967 and what started as a single club activity has grown to become a nationwide effort with clubs from across the UK collecting millions of pairs of spectacles over the last 35 years.
Reading Lions Club collects unwanted prescription spectacles. Working with partner organisations, glasses and hearing aids are recycled to support the work of eye and hearing clinics around the world. Click here to see how our national recycling operation works.
How you can help:
Please consider donating your unwanted prescription glasses. Take them along to:
- Circle Hospital Reading, 100 Drake Way, Reading, RG2 0NE
- Specsavers at 45 Broad Street, Reading RG1 2AA, where there is a Lions collection box
- Specsavers at Unit A, Whiteknights Retail Centre, 203-205 Shinfield Road, Reading, RG2 8HA
- Specsavers, Sainsburys, Bath Road, Calcot, Theale, Reading, RG31 7SA
- Eyesite, 87 Broad Street, Reading 142 Friar Street Reading, RG1 2AP
- Eye Club Pangbourne, 1 Reading Road, Pangbourne, Reading, RG8 7LR
- Eye Club Caversham, 27 Church Street, Caversham, Reading, RG4 8BA
- D & R Kirk Opticians, 47 Whitley Street, Reading RG2 0EG
- Leightons Opticians, 12-14 Queen Victoria Street, Reading RG1 1TG
- Scrivens Opticians, 70 School Road, Tilehurst, RG31 5AR.
When dropping off your unwanted specs please take them out of the cases. We cannot recycle cases, sorry.
We are very proud of our collective achievements. The Lions spectacle collection project is more than recycling; it is reuse of a costly asset. Over the last 30 years we have collected over 2.5 million pairs!.
Together we can bring hope to many families in the developing world who have been blighted by loss of sight. Your old specs can make a huge difference to someone somewhere.
Click here to see how our recycling operation works.
