Get Rid of and Donate CIC
Get Rid of and Donate CIC (Community Interest Company) is an environmental voluntary project supporting the eradication and reduction of waste congestion to landfill by recycling pre-loved unwanted items in turn giving back to people in need in communities. Since March 2017, Get Rid of it and Donate has recognised the need for a sustainability initiative in communities and noticed the unprecedented of unused items, we then started collecting good unused items from people in the communities. Our project has since been engaged with the local community who have supported our campaign on ‘Global Warning & Climate Change’ to reduce landfill waste and protect the environment by donating such items as *clothes, shoes, furniture, household items, electrical and IT equipment. With the donations received we donate to schools, children's centers & adventure playgrounds, rough sleepers & homeless people, charities, disaster relief organisations and wherever the support of need.
ABOUT US: 

Get Rid of and Donate CIC is a non-profit environment and recycling organisation.  Our goals and aims are to alleviate the congestion at landfills of items that are reusable donating to local communities. The organisation commits its assets for the benefit of the community and is self-sufficient to accumulate its revenue by diversifying fund-raising activities, and monetary donations and looking at unique solutions that can bring income to the organisation to support people in need.

 

WHY OUR WORK MATTERS: 

Get Rid of and Donate goals are to alleviate the congestion at landfills of items that are reusable donating to local people in need in communities, reduce, reuse and recycle the 3 R's to prevent poverty through the living crisis.

 

The company was founded by Andrea Brown a resident of Herne Hill, South London who has both interests in the environment and poverty in communities.  Andrea has collaborated with volunteers and assembled a Board of members with people with a common ground of interest.

 

Get Rid of and Donate action is a direct response to the global campaign on ‘Global Warming and Climate Change and the devastating impacts to the earth on a national and international level.  In the UK, such effects could aggravate the weather, heavier rains and hotter weather, rising sea levels and the threat to wildlife.  Its evident human behaviour and intervention have played an influential contribution to the environment.  The earth for decades has been stripped of its natural reservoirs, to deforestation and desertification.  Environment issues have become a catastrophe on a global scale with the current state with the consequence of political intervention, integration of policies & technologies to adapt to the effects of climate change and efforts to reduce greenhouse gases.  The UK public thinks about taking action on climate change, 73% of people want world leaders to agree with a global deal and 66% think action must happen now, according to a new Populus survey.

 

The average household in the boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark dispose of two-thirds of a ton of waste annually the of the weight of a car.  On a local level efforts are made on recycling practices to regenerate to alternative methods such as energy plants where waste is modified to generate electricity. 

 

OUR VALUES: 
In all efforts to donate to charities and organizations, our vision is to support the reduction of landfill waste, suppress economic and environmental impacts of lengthy decomposition rates. The aim of the community project is to promote recycling, and to rejuvenate and upcycle unwanted items; taking the lead on a local level, efforts to increase on improved recycling operations and give back to communities by supporting people in need.
THINGS WE ARE PROUD OF: 
We are proud that we have been able to help all people in need, as a Community Interest Company the advantage is that we can alternate our project to accommodate and support the need and the emergency crisis. Our project has engaged with the community, built a presence with our community hubs and projects with schools and adventure playgrounds.
We have supported over 500 people and families through the cost-of-living crisis donating usable items to reduce financial impacts on homes.
We have five community hubs distributing donations to refugees, asylum seekers, vulnerable people and families
We have supported and helped people and families making an impact and changing their lifes
WHAT WE LOOK FOR IN OUR PEOPLE: 

We are inviting volunteers who have any of the following attributes and characteristics 

  • Teamwork
  • Patience
  • Creativity
  • Energetic
  • Positive attitude
  • Willingness to help
  • Understanding 
HOW WE ARE DIFFERENT: 

Get Rid of and Donate CIC business models involves collection of reusable items that can be given back to meet the needs for better living and maintaining sustainable environment for people in need.  Our aim is to develop working relations with community care services including social and outreach intervention agencies, homeless charities, refugee/asylum centers, Where the need for the resource, items are donated to support the need.   

 

In Lambeth and Southwark there is a dire strait of supporting people in various areas, we identified these through research and analysis local government data.

 

Our strategy involves working with local and mainstream stakeholders building a partnership infrastructure to distribute to disadvantaged people.

 

While some of the issues that leave people to poverty, and the solutions lie with a much further force that relates to inequalities within society and the economy.  This also relates to the demographic changes that affect communities with the rise of many people experiencing challenges causing ‘excess poverty risks.

 

The early intervention of supporting people living in poverty is imminent to the climate of current affairs in prevent neglect, hunger, abandon, maltreatment the struggles of providing for the basics.  The number of people reliant on food supplies has increased; families are under financial pressure and living costs.  Community care focuses attention on the chronic of unmet needs. A shortage of resources in household, are due to hardships and inequalities surrounding unemployment, low paid jobs and cost of living. 

 

The reliance on supported services have increased with food banks, charitable distributions and donations.  The shortfall in household income deprives the balance of normal functionality.  People are more inclined to seek assistance in crisis loss of benefit, low income, debt and homelessness, sickness and domestic violence.  Supporting services is about meeting the demand for the less fortunate and vulnerable people of society.  Rachel Orr, Oxfam’s head of UK programme, said the figures showed Britain’s poorest people have failed to benefit from the economic recovery ‘such outlets like Food Banks are becoming a permanent fixture as poor people are forced to rely on the charity of others to get by and put food on the table,’’
 

Get Rid of and Donate CIC identifies useful a d good domestic waste within our homes as a source and an option that can partly elevate such means of poverty and reduce the anxieties that prevail with the current climate of living costs crisis.

Summary
Community Interest Company
Crisis Support
Disability
Disaster Relief
Homelessness
Older People
Poverty
Refugees
Social Care
Young People
Lambeth

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Our Opportunities

 
Environmental Coordinator Volunteer
Get Rid of and Donate CIC
Min. 12 Weeks Minimum weeks
Environmental Coordinator Volunteer
Volunteering
Volunteer
Culture

This is an exciting volunteering opportunity to support the projects ECO Waste and Recycling to explore and create a sustainable policy. The ideal volunteer would be a student or environmental officer to bring about awareness of disposal waste.

 
Community Volunteer
Get Rid of and Donate CIC
Min. 12 Weeks Minimum weeks
Community Volunteer
Volunteering
Assistant
Families, Homelessness, Mental Health, Poverty, Social Care

Get Rid of and Donate CIC, is a local environmental focus community project, that works to support vulnerable people and families in need. GROAD collects donations from the community at our community hubs redistributing reducing waste to landfill.