Petals

Hadn’t taken a blip this evening. I found a drippy pansy.
I’ve traded in some camera equipment today, but they didn’t want two scratched lenses. One was quite bad, the other although scratched it didn’t show on the photo at all and is quite useable. On the way out another customer told me that the local Red Cross shop takes in cameras and lenses, he knows because he checks them over for the shop. I wonder if anyone has any experience of giving old equipment to any sort of charity? 
I know there’s a disabled photographers group which has a stand at the Photography Show, but I’ve just missed that.