Celebrating a Decade of Connection Fighting Textile Waste

The Nest Community Inc was founded on 15 December 2014 with just 12 founding members ranging in age from 12 to 80. On the same day in 2024, we gathered to celebrate for many reasons. Primarily, that we’d reached a 10 year milestone, but also that we’d had a mammoth first full year in Brendale where we’d processed 234,905 litres of donations, 40% of our total donations to date.

Many of our 120 dedicated volunteers gathered to create some festive cheer with our staff and loyal supporters like our Gold Patron Tim Mander MP and Michelle, one of our founding members. With a slideshow of memories on the big screen, there was a lot of chatter, reminiscing and pride in the room.

As a charity, our Christmas celebrations are usually low-key affairs but this year we lashed out with delicious paella. Of course the giving nature of our community shone through with husbands of volunteers stepping in to run the bar and Sarah Eaton (a daughter-in-law of one of the volunteers) baked our incredible anniversary cake.

In fact, a lot of husbands of volunteers attended Perhaps a sign of how important The Nest is in their partner’s lives - or was it the paella?