The R-CADE Boardgames Swap Shop

It's time for a spring clean, a chance to get rid of those old boardgames you are bored of and enjoy some new ones absolutely free!

This will be year 4 of our Boardgame Swap event and we are excited for another year of fun and games, quite literally!

To recap; for the past 3 years, during the April school holidays, we set up a small table in our cafe which was piled up high with board games, card games and books that we had laying around and didn't have much use for anymore. Everything on our table was completely free for families to choose and take home to enjoy. This was also an opportunity for our followers to donate their unwanted boardgames and books for other families to take home. We never like the idea of perfectly useful goods going to landfill and we wanted to offer some fun, and completely free options for families over the school holidays.

This year will be our fourth boardgame swap event, and as always we encourage you all to have a clear out at home and donate any fun games and goodies that you are no longer playing with so other families can give them another chance to be enjoyed once again.

If you are donating

If you are having a clear out and would like to donate to our swap table, firstly we want to thank you for being awesome and kind! You can donate at any time during our standard opening hours starting now and we will be setting up the table in our cafe between the 3rd and 19th of April. We do have a few rules regarding what can be donated. Things that we can accept are:

 -Boardgames, tabletop games, puzzle and card games. Please make sure these are complete (nothing worse than opening a game to find you can't actually play it!)

 -Travel games and activity books that have not been filled in.

 -Kid friendly books, annuals, comics and graphic novels.

 -We will NOT be accepting toys, plushies or collectables for this campaign (we just don't have the space!)

 -IMPORTANT: Please make sure that games donated are suitable for kids and families (teen games accepted too). We cannot accept adult rated games (Cards Against Humanity etc) during this campaign.

If you are looking for free goodies

This campaign has been created to help give games, books and activities to families who are struggling to find affordable things to do with their kids over the school holidays. We will have a two item policy for each family / group looking to take home items from our swap table. If we do have lots leftover we are more than happy for groups to take more, but we will start with two items to give everyone a chance to take home goodies.

Our free boardgames table will be set up in the cafe between the 3rd and 19th of April, but you can donate anytime between now and April during our standard opening times.

You do not have to donate to take something away, and you do not have to book an arcade pass either. You can always buy a tasty snack or drink from our cafe during your visit to help support our small business if you like, this is also not required ( but very much appreciated!)Our opening times during the April holidays will be as follows: Friday 3rd: 12pm-10pm* Saturday 4th: 12pm-10pm* Sunday 5th: 12pm-7pm Tuesday 7th: 12pm-7pm Wednesday 8th: 12pm-7pm Thursday 9th: 12pm-10pm* Friday 10th: 12pm-10pm* Saturday 11th: 12pm-10pm* Sunday 12th: 12pm-7pm Tuesday 14th: 12pm-7pm Wednesday 15th: 12pm-7pm Thursday 16th: 12pm-10pm* Friday 17th: 12pm-10pm* Saturday 18th: 12pm-10pm* Sunday 19th: 12pm-7pm *Strictly over 18's only from 7-10pm

We will be open during the April school holidays for lots of family fun gaming too. You can book your arcade passes via our bookings page at www.rcadeglasgow.com/booknow We want to make this year the biggest yet! So we are asking you to share our campaign and our page with as many friends and groups as you can. If you are looking to donate but have questions please feel free to get in touch with us via DM or email (via our contact page)