Charities We Support
How we support Charities
We want to help and empower, not just the planet, but local communities and charities. Profits from fast fashion do not benefit you, our local communities, or the environment.
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We at the Secondhand Sisters are dedicated to helping others and the planet. We do this is by donating 10% of every purchase made to one of our four charities.
The Bower Reuse and Repair Centre
The Bower is an award-winning environmental charity and a champion of reuse and repair. We are a not-for-profit committed to reducing landfill. Our range of services and programs are all based on the ethos of reuse and repair – this is the principal that guides everything we do.
The Bower has been implementing the idea of the circular economy in Sydney for over 20 years.
Our organisation has agreements with over 21 Sydney metropolitan councils to collect unwanted household goods and re-home them. Nearly 2.7 million residents in Sydney now have access to this free service.
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Oz Harvest
OzHarvest is Australia’s leading food rescue organization, collecting quality excess food from commercial outlets and delivering it directly to more than 1300 charities supporting people in need across the country.
OzHarvest now operates nationally, rescuing over 180 tonnes of food each week from over 3,500 food donors including supermarkets, hotels, airports, wholesalers, farmers, corporate events, catering companies, shopping centres, delis, cafes, restaurants, film and TV shoots and boardrooms. Education is crucial to their business to help enable positive change for vulnerable people with the programs NEST and NOURISH. FEAST is their curriculum-aligned education program which is available nationally. The program inspires primary school students to eat healthy food with less waste and be change-makers in their local community.
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Clean Up Australia
Clean Up Australia inspires and empowers communities to clean up, fix up and conserve our environment.
What was started thirty years ago, by an "average Australian bloke" who had a simple idea to make a difference in his own backyard has now become the nation's largest community-based environmental event.
Of course, Australia's waste challenges can't be solved in just one day, so over the past three decades, Clean Up Australia has evolved into an organisation that works with community, government and businesses to provide practical solutions to help us all live more sustainably every day of the year. Today our focus is as much on preventing rubbish entering our environment as it is removing what has already accumulated. As Australia’s waste challenges continue to grow, we all need Step Up and support solutions which move us towards a circular economy – where everything is a resource, and there is no such thing as waste.
Learn more about the issues and the what you can do to reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfill each year.
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Médecins Sans Frontières Australia
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) translates to Doctors without Borders. They provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. MSF was founded in 1971 in Paris by a group of journalists and doctors. Today, they are a worldwide movement of more than 42,000 people. Their teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff bound together by their charter. Their actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of impartiality, independence and neutrality. They are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organization.
The Médecins Sans Frontières Australia office was set up in 1994. Every year around two hundred Australians and New Zealanders are sent to and supported in the field by Médecins Sans Frontières Australia.
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Fred Hollows Foundation
Australian Red Cross
PCYC
Cancer Council
WWF Australia
Variety
Australian Conservation Foundation
Camp Quality
Deaf Children Australia
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