TIME TO REGIFT: The Red Cross’ annual ‘Don’t Ditch It, Regift it’ campaign is urging people to donate those unwanted Christmas gifts. PICTURE: Courtesy of Australian Red Cross
Received a Christmas gift that you don’t really want or need? Why not turn it into a gift for some-else and at the same time not only avoid accidentally giving it back to the person who gave it to you in the first place but also know it’s all for a good cause?
The Australian Red Cross is once again running its post-Christmas appeal – Don’t Ditch It, Re-Gift It – for donations of unwanted Christmas gifts, whether it’s clothes, accessories or homewares.
Kate Dear, Australian Red Cross community engagement coordinator, says January is the perfect month of the year to “clear out the cupboards”, particularly of those unwanted Christmas gifts on which Australians spend million each year.
“You get a good feeling when you donate to a Red Cross shop and you’re helping to cut landfill waste,” she says. “Reduce, reuse and recycle.”
Donations made to a Red Cross shop will help support the work of the organisation whether it’s helping families rebuild their lives after a bushfire or flood, a daily phone call to check the welfare of an elderly person living alone or the provision of clean drinking water to a child in Myanmar.
People who make 10 or more donations over the counter are eligible for a 25 per cent discount on shopping.
For more information, see www.redcross.org.au/dontditchit or phone 1800 811 700. Please note the Red Cross cannot accept donations of electrical items, large furniture or mattresses.
