Incredible support from ABC Brisbane has led to an overwhelming number of generous offers of donations.
Amazing support from ABC Brisbane, thank you We have been inundated (and overwhelmed) with so many generous offers and we are so very grateful to you all. Thank you all so much for your patience as we aim to get back to each of you. One of our biggest challenges for those of you who don't know much about RizeUp and how we work is that we currently operate out of 24 storage units dotted across South East Queensland... let's just say our Trucker team of Gareth and Deano are Tetris Champions... we used to have 33 before Lockdown struck and all our events were cancelled so we had to cut a few back to save our money for the families we are supporting. So not having enough available storage is a massive challenge. It's a bit of a tricky situation we need the supplies but how do we manage not having enough storage without spending our limited funds on storage.
Another big dilemma is having just one truck. We have one truck to do pick ups and the same truck that delivers furniture 5 days a week to the teams on site who are creating the beautiful homes for the 5 - 8 vulnerable families we support each week. Your very kind offers of donations would give our supplies a massive boost that we desperately need in order to continue helping the many families of domestic violence especially now during the Pandemic.
If you would like to help here are some handy hints that will help us on our side tremendously:
Please note, we only accept mattresses in excellence condition.. clean and with no rips or stains etc.
Please be prepared to hold onto your donation a few days so we can arrange to retrieve it... remember .. one truck....
If you'd like to help with linen we are looking for NEW Linen due to COVID-19 restrictions preventing us from accepting second hand linen right now.
Please also know that we can only accept your kind donation if you leave it outside so we are creating contactless pickups.
And finally..... in order to help speed up the process, if you could please send through details of your donations, along with photos and pick up info.
Thank you all so very much for the generous support. Together, we can change the ending for many more vulnerable families.
Donate: donate@rizeup.com.au or online at our website.
Thank you again incredible friends at @ABC Brisbane for your support of the work we do x