Charity

Remember the old saying - "One man's trash, is another man's treasure"

Well that is what we hope it will be with the work we have undertaken to do.

As we move many people into retirement villages when they Downsize from the family home, they find that a lot of their furniture will not fit.

So rather than take these unwanted items to the tip or put them out for the local council roadside pick ups, we have a number of charities that we like to support.

We try and help in a number of ways, by either donating the unwanted furniture or goods - or - if they are items that none of our charities can use, we sell the items and donate the money between the charities. We discuss these charities with our clients so they are aware of where their goods or funds from the sale of the goods will be going.

Some of our recipients are charities that people do not know a lot about and like most non for profit organisations, they can always use more help and financial support.

Please feel free to contact us if you would like to find out more information on the organisations we support and why we have chosen them. Also, if you move with us and you have household items you would like to donate please talk to us about who you would like us to try and donate it to.

For your information here is just a little bit about each of charities, but if you have someone you would rather us donate your goods to, we are more than happy to accommodate your request.

Our main recipient is the Womens Refuge of NSW

Our charity work - why do we do it?

Is it not wanting to waste anything? Is it wanting to feel good about helping people? Or just our way of giving back.

It could be any or all of the above.

Like most small businesses, we struggle to keep ahead sometimes, which makes it very difficult to be able to donate money to charities when they ask. So one week, after saying no to so many charities, we started to think about what we could do about that, which just happened to coincide with a week that we had taken so many unwanted goods to the tip.

At that time we had been doing some work for a local women's refuge, so we asked them if they would be interested in taking unwanted furniture and household items - they said definitely yes.

So from starting off helping one local women's refuge, it has now branched out to assisting the Women's Refuge of NSW. They are an amazing group of women and the main recipient of our donations.

We also support Wayback, which is an organisation who, as the name says, assists people with help, support and accommodation when they are getting their lives back together after taking some wrong turns and making some bad choices.

Finally we support other local community organisations that assist people in need.

Even though it is quite a bit of extra work sometimes, it feels so good when we have a support worker bringing someone into the warehouse to pick out some much needed goods and watching the look on their face.

It really makes us think, that although we don't always have everything we want (does anyone?), we really have most things we need, there is a big difference. We are blessed with a roof over our heads, reasonably good health and family that we share happy times with, so we are the lucky ones and if we have some way of helping people that might not have what we sometimes take for granted, then we are more than happy to continue doing what we do.

Our customers are so very generous and we meet the most wonderful people so we are again luckier than some.

Women's Refuge Movement

The Women's Refuge Movement is a network of 55 refuges situated across NSW providing support and accommodation to women and children escaping Domestic Violence.

The NSW WRM Resource Centre manages

• The NSW Women's Refuge Movement
• The NSW Women's Family Law Support Service,
• The Orana Far West Safe Houses Project
• Regularly providing advice to government on policies and programs to improve responses and outcomes for women and children who are experiencing domestic violence.

This Resource Centre works closely with the sector to ensure that it can actively and effectively represent and advocate for its member refuges and the women and children they support.

Wayback Ltd

Wayback Ltd is a charitable organisation established in 1969 by Dr Stella Dalton AM to provide treatment for those experiencing significant social, legal, health and family problems associated with their use of illicit drugs and/or alcohol.

A distinguishing feature of Wayback is its emphasis on the human factor of addiction. Wayback is adamant that every patient needs to be treated as an individual, and adheres to the established research that reveals people with addictions have a higher rate of relapse when they have little support.

Wayback offers a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program based on harm minimization with both residential and non-residential options available. A total of 31 residential can be accommodated in fully furnished premises at the 9 Wayback houses situated in the Western Sydney region.

Christian Community Aid

Christian Community Aid strengthens the communities it serves through effective and relevant based programs based on its Christian heritage of reaching out to all who are in need.

Hunters Hill Ryde Community Services

Hunters Hill Ryde Community Services (HHRCS), is a local not for profit community neighbourhood organisation. Providing Home and Community Care (HACC) programs; Emergency Relief for those individuals or families experiencing short term financial crisis; and information, referral and advocacy. The name of the organisation reflects the local area of service provision - Hunters Hill, Woolwich, Putney, Tennyson, Ryde, North Ryde, Macquarie and West Lane Cove.

Our mission: To support and assist older people and those with a disability and their carers, and those who are socially isolated or experiencing financial disadvantage in our local community

Our address:
42 – 46 Gladesville Road,
Hunters Hill NSW 2110

Ph: (02) 9817 0101
Fax: (02) 9816 5462
Email: hhrcs@bigpond.com
Hours of operation: Mon – Fri: 9.00am – 4.30pm

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