300 baseball caps saved from landfill and gifted to the local community in Greater Manchester
A spring clean at the offices of Macc, Manchester’s local voluntary and community sector support organisation, revealed nine boxes of no-longer-needed event baseball caps. Having been a longstanding champion of A Good Thing, the team quickly set to work listing them for offer on the app - where they were snapped up in minutes.
Charity champions
Jack Puller, Volunteering and Active Communities Manager at Macc, has been a champion of A Good Thing since learning about the app during its launch in 2021. Ever since, the two teams have worked together to spread the word about the free-to-use matchmaking app to volunteer and community groups and charities across Greater Manchester: they have run shared social media campaigns and an online event in November 2022.
Spring clean
With the summer months approaching, Jack and his team recently embarked upon a spring clean and knew exactly what to do when they came across nine boxes containing over 300 unworn baseball caps hidden in a cupboard. He explained:
‘Following a recent office tidy at Macc, we uncovered a large quantity of good-quality baseball caps from a piece of work we had delivered a number of years ago.
We felt the caps could be put to good use. Rather than dispose of them, we were reminded of A Good Thing and knew the app would help us find them a suitable new home.’
Shared amongst the community
The hats were well received by local charities and were requested by the Manchester Central Foodbank, which wanted to distribute them to its clients in need across the city. The match was quickly confirmed, Suzy Keen from the charity collected the caps and they were soon ready for redistribution across Manchester Central Foodbank’s network.
Manchester Central Foodbank, which is part of the Trussell Trust network, works tirelessly to relieve the impact of poverty across the city. The charity offers an emergency food service to those in need through the provision of nutritionally-balanced food parcels, and signposts services to members of the community who are referred by front-line agencies
Easy to use on the go
Jack was delighted by the outcome and found the process effortless, he was full of praise for the app and recommends that others give it a go!
‘Registration to the platform was exceptionally straightforward and listing an offer was similarly easy and intuitive – complete a few fields of information about your offer, upload any images, hit “publish” and you’re done!
If you uncover any spare items in your work or office spaces, or if you’ve things leftover from an event or activity, we would highly recommend A Good Thing as a means to gift them to a charity instead of throwing them in the bin.
In addition to the simplicity of the process, we were delighted that our offer was quickly matched with a good cause. We felt well-supported by the A Good Thing team — they were on hand from start to finish.
What’s great is the platform is optimised for smartphones, we found this extremely handy when posting our offer on the go.
Nice one, A Good Thing. Thank you!’
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