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. 
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

The Selwyns Homestead
21 Youngs Road
​Papakura
​Auckland

Lions Karori, Wellington

Jennie Vowles
36 Parkvale Road
​Karori
​Wellington 6012
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Lions Club of Karori
P.O,Box 17 103
Wellington 6147

Lions Ferrymead, Christchurch

Neil Pugh
79 Scruttons Road
Heathcote
Christchurch
 
Murray Walsh
67 Ti Rakau Drive
Woolston
Christchurch
 
Woolston Pharmacy
685 Ferry Road
Woolston
Christchurch