- Arts & Culture
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Brendale, QLD - https://www.nestcommunity.org.au/
- One opportunity
- admin@nestcommunity.org.au
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264 South Pine Road Brendale QLD 4500 Australia
A charity connecting women purposefully through craft, reclaiming resources for
the maker community.
Since 2014 women have come together at The Nest Community to share our values of sustainability, skill sharing and hand making.
With a mutual love of making and boundless knowledge of craft, our community has always valued textiles and established our social enterprise; The Nest Haberdashery, as a resource recovery centre for the maker community.
Our volunteers make the haberdashery more than just a shop. It’s a vibrant circular economy where volunteers reclaim precious resources and encourage customers to reuse, upcycle, make and get creative.
The Nest Haberdashery is a recycling solution that diverts preloved textiles and craft supplies from landfills and ensures that Brisbane’s makers, artisans, and emerging designers have access to low-cost, quality resources.
Each week our venue hosts between 500 – 600 people, either as volunteers, customers, workshops, or program participants.
We currently process around 5000 litres of materials per week and estimate that we resell around 60% of all donations.
An important part of our resource recovery is preserving Australian craft history. As donations are received our volunteers identify significant artifacts and curate our heritage collections that is displayed in the Gladys Mary Studio.
Funds from our social enterprise allow us to run programs that support our vision to be a resilient community built on unconditional giving, where people and resources are equally valued.
Our free skill sharing program, the Exchange Project, was launched in 2021 amidst the uncertainty of the COVID pandemic. The program was inspired by The Craft Nest Project – the genesis of our organisation and partners with local high schools to teach vulnerable teenage girls hand making skills.
the maker community.
Since 2014 women have come together at The Nest Community to share our values of sustainability, skill sharing and hand making.
With a mutual love of making and boundless knowledge of craft, our community has always valued textiles and established our social enterprise; The Nest Haberdashery, as a resource recovery centre for the maker community.
Our volunteers make the haberdashery more than just a shop. It’s a vibrant circular economy where volunteers reclaim precious resources and encourage customers to reuse, upcycle, make and get creative.
The Nest Haberdashery is a recycling solution that diverts preloved textiles and craft supplies from landfills and ensures that Brisbane’s makers, artisans, and emerging designers have access to low-cost, quality resources.
Each week our venue hosts between 500 – 600 people, either as volunteers, customers, workshops, or program participants.
We currently process around 5000 litres of materials per week and estimate that we resell around 60% of all donations.
An important part of our resource recovery is preserving Australian craft history. As donations are received our volunteers identify significant artifacts and curate our heritage collections that is displayed in the Gladys Mary Studio.
Funds from our social enterprise allow us to run programs that support our vision to be a resilient community built on unconditional giving, where people and resources are equally valued.
Our free skill sharing program, the Exchange Project, was launched in 2021 amidst the uncertainty of the COVID pandemic. The program was inspired by The Craft Nest Project – the genesis of our organisation and partners with local high schools to teach vulnerable teenage girls hand making skills.