How to Donate Your Used Glasses

Your local optometrist may collect your used glasses and sunglasses,
or you may prefer to send them directly to one of the 3 Lions Clubs that do glasses recycling. 

Lions Eyeglass Recycling Information

If you are a spectacle lens manufacturer,  frame supplier,  or hobby glasses distributor please contact the Secretary on vosocharity@gmail.com

As a guide for optometrists collecting glasses please send only glasses that fit the follwing criteria

• Frame- that is fit for wear eg not broken, crooked
• Lenses- coatings intact
• Prescription- Astigmatism no more than 0.75 with or against the rule +/- 20 degrees
• Anisometropia no more than 0.75DS
• Ideally single vision but we do accept bifocals and progressives
• Sunglasses- plano lenses and frame in good working condition, prescription as above

Lions Papakura, Auckland

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The Selwyns Homestead
21 Youngs Road
​Papakura
​Auckland
Contact: Kevin Bromwich
T: (09) 298 1414
E: kevinbromwich@xtra.co.nz

Lions Karori, Wellington

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36 Parkvale Road
Karori,
Wellington, 6012
Contact: Jennie Vowles
T: (04) 476 4481
E: vowles@xtra.co.nz

Lions Cromwell

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 C/- Andy Andrews,
57 Horace Street, Cromwell, 9310
Contact: Andy Andrews
T: 021 842 346
E: ajandrews57@gmail.com