Strange you should mention the medical centre refusing your magazines, slightly diverting but similar incident, I took a load of clothes to Age Concern, and they told me they had no room and were not interested at all. I had spent an age ironing and making them all look really presentable.
Charity in my opinion sometimes is a word that I dont always understand the meaning of. Is it charitable to accept and be grateful or charitable to refuse and turn away people with good intentions. I wonder.