List of Free Swaps and Services in London

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  Citizen’s Advice Bureau
  
  Citizen’s Advice Bureau provides free advice on benefits, debts, housing, employment, discrimination, immigration and various other problems. Citizen’s Advice Bureau services can be sought from hospitals to GP’s, colleges to courts, dedicated bureaus to prisons.
  
  

  
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  Craig’s List
  
  Another credible free service provider in the United Kingdom is Craig’s List. This is an American website that is now getting popular in London and other cities of the United Kingdom. Craig’s List provides its visitors a wonderful opportunity to claim different things on their website without spending a single penny.
  
  

  
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  Freecycle
  
  Freecycle is another exciting free swap and service website, over which members can offer their possessions that they do not require any more, or can ask from other members if they want to give away anything free of cost. There will be no exchange of money and the membership of Freecycle is also free.
  
  

  
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  Gumtree
  
  Londoners can also get free things from a famous website called Gumtree, under its freebie section. This section lists almost everything like crutches, sofas, bikes, kitchen sinks and monitor screens which visitors can get free of cost. Aside from this, psychic readings are also available free at Gumtree website.

  
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  Bulky goods collections
  
  Some of local councils in London also take away unwanted stuff from people’s home, including vehicles, furniture and electrical items. Residents of Hackney witness this type of collection four times in a year. These unwanted items are either sent for reconditioning, recycling or sold to various shops in the capital.
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  Clothes-swapping parties
  
  Several Londoners would be aware of clothe swapping services, but swapping clothes personally is considered more fun. In order to do so, people organise clothe swapping parties which take place in different areas of London. One of the most famous cloth swapping parties is A-Rama Razzmatazz that takes place in Favela Chic.
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  Garden waste collection
  
  Some of the local councils in the British capital also collect garden waste without charging their residents a single penny. One such local council is Brent that collects waste free of charge and then converts it into compost. But bear one thing in mind that they will not collect stones, soil, tree trunks and large branches.
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  www.swapxchangeislington.org
  
  There are some other local councils in London which encourage their residents to exchange or barter different things, for instance cars, bikes, fridges etc. In order to make the exchange, residents need to specify what they want to swap and a bottle of wine or chocolate bar is used as token in this case. Islington Council is a prominent example in this case.
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  Online swapping forums
  
  Those who are below 18 years of age and like to swap anything can now do so with the help of various swapping websites on internet. This swapping involves items like personal computer, games, cars, ipods etc. Swapitshop.com is one of the most famous online website for people under 18 years of age.
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  LETS
  
  Local Exchange Trading Schemes (LETS) is another popular way of swapping things for free that is getting quite common in London now a days. Generally most LETS in London work as per the principle of trading services or goods without involving money. However, in order to become a member of any LETS, you have to pay annual subscription charges.
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  www.tvrecordings.com
  
  Other free services which one can find in London include free shows. The best example in this regard is www.tvrecordings.com from where Londoners can see wonderful comedy shows like Edinburgh & Beyond and Al Murray’s Happy Hour’. The recordings of these and other shows can be found on the website.
  
  

  
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  www.londonfreelist.com
  
  Britons can also find several things to do on this website called www.londonfreelist.com. This website helps to locate clubs to bars, theatre to sports, and others including a variety of London’s top car boot sales listings. Londoners can gain all this knowledge from this website without spending any money.
  
  

  
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  www.londonforfree.net
  
  London for free is a website that gives you numerous ideas like applying for tickets and sites from where one can get free food etc. For instance Hare Krishna Temple at 10 Soho Street in British capital serves free vegetarian meals from Monday to Saturday between 12:30 pm and 1:00 pm and around 3:00 pm on Sundays.
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  Books
  
  Book devotees in London should not be distressed as now they can exchange books through bookcrossing meet up group whose members see each other in a bar where books are being swapped or shared for reading. The reason for forming this group was to promote reading.