Join our facebook group to help organisations find the stuff they need.
This year’s Black Friday / Buy Nothing Day seems particularly poignant. COP27’s outcome reminds us how far we have to go in reducing resource usage, yet discounts will be welcome as people make ends meet in a cost-of-living crisis. Personally, seeing 50 former colleagues and friends face uncertainty following Joules’ collapse into administration (after a summer where people hadn’t spent enough) was a stark reminder of the challenges of reaching a sustainable, lower-consumption society.
At SHARE Oxford, we’re committed to helping our community on this journey, and sharing ideas and lessons more broadly. With our focus on sharing and repairing stuff, and inspired by the generous people who donate items for our Library of Things, we thought how about a “Sharing Black Friday” to launch a new service supporting community groups and charities with stuff we can spare.
Our facebook group SHARE Oxford Community Sharing allows these groups to request anything they need, and we can all help find it. From furnishing homes for homeless people, to sourcing the basics families need, to kitting out some of the new “warm spaces” that are helping people through the winter, we hope this will be a powerful way to find a meaningful home for things you don’t need, and a valuable resource for the wonderful projects underway in our community.
So, our Black Friday ask is to please consider joining the group. Can you introduce the initiative to an organisation who might benefit, or help source something that’s been requested, and help your community to save money, save waste and save the planet?
As ever, we’ll be pleased to hear your thoughts and suggestions on how we can take this further and share more. Email Ben on ben@shareoxford.org.