Purpose and connection through textiles

Part of The Nest’s Stitch Together program, Turbo Rolling Bees offers a fun opportunity for team-building, community giving, resource recovery learning and textile therapy. The final bonus is that by lending a hand with our resource recovery work, groups are rewarded with a whopping $500 voucher for use in The Nest Haberdashery, equivalent to $1,500 worth of regular retail stock! 

This initiative is designed to be mutually supportive, a win-win-win for everyone. By participating, you’re helping by diversifying our volunteer workforce so that we can increase the volume of textiles we recirculate. This amplifies our social impact by getting more low-cost textile resources to the people that could benefit from them like schools, tertiary design institutions and community groups. 

Participating groups are welcome to use the resource voucher for their own mission, or pay it forward to another group in the spirit of forging community connections and support. 

We want our reclaimed resources to go where they will make the greatest impact. With a limited number of Turbo Rolling Bee sessions available, the application form asks how your group would use these resources or, if choosing to donate your voucher, which group you intend to support.

So far we’ve had a P&C Association, a local creative business pay forward the voucher to their local Girl Guides, the CWA, a Wearable Arts Group and charity sewing group. The sky is the limit and we look forward to seeing who else this initiative could support! 

Have a group keen to roll for good? Check out our FAQs below and then apply online.