Lets talk charity!...

I thought I would do a small post about supporting charity.

Supporting charity to me is something I have always done and I would like the kids to also support charity effortlessly and regularly as a normal part of life.

Since I was a small child I have been involved in charity in some capacity, starting with Carnival queens and church queens raising money for local charities, fundraising has always been there.

The twins had their first dip into raising money for charity when we started an appeal for the children of Syria when the conflict began, we raised money by people donating their no longer needed items and sold them on to raise funds to pass onto the charity.

Personally we do not have a pot to piss in but we still manage to support our local charity who do some fabulous work. We manage to do this by buying goods in bulk from their local charity shop, selling them on ebay and raising more money to put back into buying more stock in bulk from the charity shop.

Circular economy, when we do this it demonstrates to the twins that we are having an effect far wider than just helping support the charity that we choose, we are keeping things out of landfill and playing our part in helping our mother earth.

Ellen Macarthur Foundation was established in 2010 with the aim of accelerating the transition to the circular economy. You can find out more about them here.

Fashion is considered to be one of the most polluting industries, the chemical waste is not always discharged according to proper measures causing water pollution worldwide, for a single t-shirt the average water footprint is 2500 ltrs of water (30 bathtubs) 

We can't do very much as a small family but we can play our part and at the same time help charities.