Trade in or donate?

14 September 2026 Aid to Ukraine

Donated estate car

Trade it in, or donate it?

We will soon be driving another donated estate car to Ukraine. Over there it will be used for things like evacuations and hospital runs. The person who gave it away benefits too. Not only because it helps Ukraine, but financially as well. In this post we explain how that works, using a few examples.

Aid to Ukraine brings cars, trauma care supplies and IT equipment straight to aid workers in Ukraine. We have delivered more than 250 cars so far. You can donate money, a car or equipment.

In our favourite coffee place in Kharkiv there is a bag of tourniquets and pressure bandages on the wall, in the spot where we would have a defibrillator. That is how our help works too: practical, and exactly what is needed at that moment. With a great deal of help from donors in the IT sector, ambulance care and the motor industry, among others. And thanks to dozens of people who lend a hand.

Aid to Ukraine is a network of experts in cars, care and IT who help with what they know. We source trauma supplies and give discarded office equipment a second life at Ukrainian aid organisations.

We ask what is needed, bring it ourselves and hand it to the people who use it. When that is not practical we send things by truck, which fortunately happens regularly. Get in touch if we can come and pick something up from you too.