A Good Thing (UK)

We're A Good Thing - We make it easy for businesses to donate unwanted items to local charities. All using a simple app.   The idea is simple: 🌻A business has something to spare… 🌻A local charity has a need… 🌻We make the match!   Using our simple web app: https://bit.ly/AGTHome   A business makes an offer, local charities make a request, and a match is made. Let's send less to landfill and more to a good cause! Join us! #charity #business #sustainability #circulareconomy #supportlocal #charitydonation #charitysupport #corporatesocialresponsibility #circulareconomy #sustainability

We're enjoying taking part in Unlocking Hampshire's Green Potential today! If you haven't already done so, please come over and say hello! There were so many great people in the room. We're excited to work with more Hampshire businesses to send less to landfills and more to a good cause. A massive thank you to Barry Smith and Ross McNally for inviting us along to present. Hampshire Growth Hub | Hampshire Chamber of Commerce | Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council | SUEZ UK | DESTINATION BASINGSTOKE LIMITED | RSWSound Ltd

We were over the moon when Hallmark Cards responded to an email from Cathy highlighting KIDZ AWARE LIMITED's #CharityNeed as it prepares for a busy Christmas. The firm generously donated a vast amount of wrapping paper, which the charity will use to wrap all the presents it gives to the disabled children it works with – a massive thank you to the team at Hallmark. Your donation has made a significant difference to this wonderful charity! 💛 It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas 🎄 🎅 🤶 Could your business support a charity need during the season of giving? ▶️ https://lnkd.in/eMBZpkHH #SupportLocal #CharityDonation #SharingEconomy #SendLessToLandfill #SmallCharity #Charity #Christmas #SeasonOfGiving

Later this week, Anna will be speaking at Unlocking Hampshire's Green Potential 2024, a conference hosted by the Hampshire Chamber of Commerce and DESTINATION BASINGSTOKE LIMITED. It's one of the largest B2B environmental events in the South of England and we're thrilled to be invited along. Ross McNally and his team have been massive champions of A Good Thing and have kindly invited us to exhibit at this year's event, which is focused on People, Planet and Profit. Anna will feature alongside an inspiring lineup of speakers and take the stage at 10.10 am. Local? There's still time to reserve a free spot: https://lnkd.in/e6T-YTxU We look forward to meeting the event sponsors, including SUEZ UK, Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council and TrustMark. #GreenPotential #Hampshire #SupportLocal #SendLessToLandfill #CircularEconomy #SharingEconomy #CharityDonation

We're thrilled we've found a new charity home for these eight pallets of bricks recently listed by Garden Studios 💛 🌻 THE LONDON AND SLOUGH RUN has collected some of the bricks; it will use them to build the front of our new homeless packing unit. A huge thank you to Julie Hoegh, who listed the offer and arranged the donation via the A Good Thing platform. #reuse #charitydonation #supportlocal #savedfromlandfill.

I can't wait for the #wickedcircularmarket tomorrow! Seeing things in action is valuable when shifting paradigms and creating new ways of doing things. If there is a true #circulareconomy in Boston, we need spaces where that economy will take place. Ninawa Zero Waste will be selling upcycled clothing 👚 Uvida Shop will be selling #zerowaste household supplies 🌍 Raintap will be selling beer tap handles turned into umbrellas ☂ Merry Go Rounds will be selling children's consignment clothing 👕 cycleStyling will be displaying circular interior design services 📋 ✨ ChopValue will be selling gifts made from upcycled chopsticks 🥢 🎁 ReThink Disposable will educate about reusables 🥤 Wasted* PBC* will be sharing circular sanitation solutions 🚽 City of Boston will be offering zero waste resources 📜 TerraCycle will be offering Halloween candy wrapper recycling 🍬 Gabriela Corbera will be share about consulting services and cluster maps💡 A Good Thing (UK) will be educating about reused goods 🏀 Circular Economy Club Boston will be offering a costume swap station 👩🎤 Redi Technology, Inc. will share info about sanitization for reusable mugs ☕ Throughout the event, there will be 10-15 min lightning talks ⚡ Richard Benwell will present, "Sending less to landfill and more to a good cause: How we do it in the UK" Amber Schmidt will present "Scaling Up Reuse in Your Community - Take Out and Soup Kitchens" Shyam Shukla will present "Boston is Getting Wasted*" And Melissa Sheehan will present on "Secondhand Gifting: The Next Frontier" We will also have free food, a raffle, crafting, and fun for the whole family!

A huge thank you to the team at D&G Office Interiors for taking the time to deliver its latest donation of designer chairs! We love to see matches happening, thank you for sharing this brilliant photograph. #sendlesstolandfill #reuse #sharingeconomy

💛 Matchmade! Something to write home about: Hotel Co 51 kicks off its A Good Thing donations with a donation to a City Life Church Southampton project. In July 2024, Hotel Co 51 became A Good Thing’s second-ever enterprise-level supporter: the hotel group joined our platform with 17 of its locations across the UK. The firm describes itself as striving to “put people and the planet first”, and asserts it is always looking for “new opportunities to deliver sustainable hospitality with purpose”. Not hard to see why we felt Hotel Co 51 would be a great match with us here at A Good Thing! As soon as the firm had signed up Colm Feeley, Regional Director of Marketing for Hotel Co 51 in the UK, began thinking hard about how the 17 locations could donate items via the platform. And Moxy Hotels Southampton was where it all kicked off for Hotel Co 51: Charlotte O'Connell, Moxy’s ‘Cluster Captain’, had been looking through the hotel’s lost property and knew there were some great potential donations just sitting there! 👉 Discover Charlotte's donations: https://bit.ly/4dZ8wZ0 🥰🥰🥰 #reuse #sharingeconomy #recycled #sendlesstolandfill #supportlocal #charity #hampshire #hotel #hotelmanager #partnership

A huge thank you to Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales for recently sharing news of A Good Thing with their community of small charities and community-led organisations. We've welcomed hundreds of new charities via the foundation. Some, like Renee Bolton at Home4U Cardiff, have found a match within days of joining the A Good Thing community. Thanks for sharing your experience with us, Renee. 🥰 #thankyou #sendlesstolandfill #supportlocal #smallcharity #charitydonation

💛 Matchmade! Projecting positivity: WE ARE UMi's bright donation to Tyneside and Northumberland Mind 💡💡💡 UMi, a business of the future, long before its time, just seems to have ‘making business a force for good’ in its DNA. Whenever there’s an opportunity to make a positive impact, big or small, the team at UMi jumps on it. This passion is clearly inspired by their CEO, Nicki Clark OBE, whose leadership has created a successful employee-owned business with a focus far beyond just profit. They’re on a never-ending journey to becoming the most sustainable and equitable business they can be. One member of that team is Jean Royal, Office Manager at UMi. Jean helps bring the company’s vision to life by diving in and turning plans into action. One of the many things Jean has worked on recently was listing their first donation on A Good Thing. Following UMi’s generous donation, Jean agreed to chat with our brilliant volunteer, Sinead O'Carroll, to share all the good things they’ve been up to and her experience using A Good Thing. ▶️ Keep reading: https://bit.ly/3AdEdQE #reuse #sharingeconomy #recycled #sendlesstolandfill #supportlocal #charity #charitydonation #sharingiscaring #ewaste