| The Garage Sale at the Polish Club Ashfield on Saturday 25 October was a huge fundraising success for the Club raising $2,350. Members were extremely generous donating items for the Club to sell and the Club is grateful for this support. The large amount of various items meant that the Club sold a huge amount on Saturday. Members have been so generous with their donations that there is still a lot more to sell and so the Club have decided to do another Garage Sale in Autumn! If that sale raises another $2,000, then the Club will make around $5,000 in three months which is fantastic news.
The Club participated in a National event called 'National Garage Sale' and this is a national program that’s about sustainability, community, commerce and fun!
By organising communities around Australia to hold garage sales on the same day they aim to promote reuse, reduce waste to landfill, enable new neighbourly connections, provide a platform for fundraising, inspire creativity and stimulate local economies.
Now in its fourth year, Garage Sale Trail is a not-for-profit mission that works hand in hand with government to inspire social and environmental change.
Over the past 3 years Garage Sale Trail has grown into an epic national event involving over:
100 Councils Australia-wide
7,000 sales nationally
360,000 participants
35,000 sellers, and
online audience of 2.1million
Last year’s event resulted in 1.5 million items listed for reuse (that’s an average of 8 shopping trollies redistributed per sale), and over 230,000 new community connections (13 new connections per participant).
The Polish Club Ashfield decided to register and become a part of the Garage Sale Trail for many reasons. Firstly, the club is in need of money and so selling items donated items and items stored in 75 Norton helped raise much needed funds from items currently doing nothing sitting in 75 Norton Street. Additionally there is national media coverage from ABC radio, Foxtel, City of Sydney, Ashfield Council, eBay and lots more. There were more customers specifically visiting garage sales all day so we got more customers to the Club's garage sale than we would if we did it ourselves. The Club also made money from selling kielbasa hot dogs, Polish cake, tea and coffee. All in all it was a fun day. We met lots of new neighbours and sold lots of interesting items!
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