Clothing & essentials drives
18 tonnes collected and redistributed last yearWe collect, sort and redistribute clothes, bedding and hygiene kits all year round.
A warm coat in January is not charity. It is infrastructure.
The need
Families who balance the budget on food have nothing left for a growth spurt, a broken washing machine or a winter that arrives early. Meanwhile, wardrobes across town are full of clothes worn twice.
What we do
- Permanent drop-off points at our office and four partner shops, plus two big seasonal drives
- A sorting line run by volunteers every Thursday: cleaned, checked, sized, nothing torn or stained goes back out
- A free boutique where beneficiaries choose what they like, in a real shop layout with mirrors and hangers
- Bedding, school bags and hygiene kits assembled on demand for social workers across the city
The impact
18 tonnes of clothing and essentials collected and redistributed last year, and 740 families served in the boutique. What we cannot reuse is sold to a textile recycler, the proceeds pay the van’s fuel.
Giving, three ways
Give for this year, or for the next seventy
A donation feeds the year's work; a monthly pledge lets us plan; a bequest builds the endowment that keeps the house standing when everyone here is gone. All three are tax-deductible at 66% (75% up to €1,000 a year when the gift funds food, care or shelter for people in difficulty), and all three are audited.
- The annual gift
- Funds the groceries, the tutoring, the outreach of the current year.
- The monthly pledge
- Predictable income, the difference between reacting and planning.
- Bequests & corporate patronage
- Received by appointment, with your notary or your board. Discretion is the house style.
Prefer another way to give? Call us and we'll help you directly.
Joining the house
Offer your hours
Volunteers here stay for years, because the work is organised, the welcome is real, and nobody's time is wasted. Tell us yours.