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Subject: Wishlists, recycling and donations

southdevonplayers profile
southdevonplayers wrote on Oct 16, 2011

Yet another question, I'm afraid! We are looking for a site or two to post our wishlist on, since our local Freecycle group has recently informed us that they will not  allow anything but individuals to post on it (so no charities or non-profit orgs). We can still watch it for items being given away, but we cannot post ourselves. We hadnt swamped the site or anything, only posting two/ three posts a month with offers and wants, and it all used to be within the group rules, but the admins seemed to have suddenly changed policy!


So we created a wishlist. We have put our wishlist on our site (http://southdevonplayers.weebly.com/recycling.html), and can find lots of American websites that do list up wishlists for non-profit organisations, but no UK ones which will accept non-profit organisations (only registered charities)... Have you any advice as to where to we can post (we are mainly, and quite urgently, looking for secondhand things things like offcuts of fabric or old sheets/ curtains for costume making and other second hand bits and pieces for sets and props and such. )


Have you any suggestions as to where we could publicise our wishlist? Any UK or international databases of wishlists rather than USA-only ones?

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ConsultantMGW profile
ConsultantMGW wrote on Dec 13, 2011

Seems as though the Wishlist has expired, but this is where Social Networking comes into its own.

Twitter, Facebook, and your blog would be the first three I'd suggest. Then print or e-mail (cheaper but less memorable) local businesses. Or rally some volunteers to go round and ask. The joys of community fundraising and corporate support rolled into one.

You could even put your wishlist into song and upload it to YouTube. Something along the theme of 'Twelve Days of Christmas,' perhaps.

If you're looking for things locally, then using local resources is always good. Café notice boards, schools (accessing the parental plumbers, carpet layers, car booters), corner shop windows.

There's also Gumtree, which is a free ads board a lot like Freecycle.

Good luck!

Marion.

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