Give your unwanted outdoor gear a new lease of life by donating it to charity
‘Gift Your Gear’ returns this month, encouraging outdoor enthusiasts to pass on their used gear for a great cause. Founded by Sarah Howcroft, the award-winning nationwide initiative, provides donated outdoor clothing and equipment to community organisations, youth groups and charities working with young people in the outdoors.
Partnering the unwanted with the needed Gift Your Gear has donated outdoor clothing and equipment to over 600 UK based charities and youth organisations working with young people in the outdoors.
Having the right clothing and equipment helps to ensure that outdoor experiences are safe and enjoyable. “Young people need to get outdoors for their physical and emotional well being,” says Howcroft. “The sun doesn’t always shine the gear you donate will help ensure their early experiences in the great outdoors are safe and enjoyable.”
Gift Your Gear has partnered with Rohan, the outdoor and travel clothing company. This September you can drop off unwanted outdoor gear, regardless of brand, at any of the 55 Rohan Shops. Be it waterproofs, fleeces, outdoor trousers, insulated jackets, gloves, hats, boots and rucksacks; Gift Your Gear want it all!
In return Rohan are offering 15% off a full priced purchase made the same day as a qualifying Gift Your Gear donation. “Having the right gear is vital to the enjoyment of the outdoors” Roger Cann MD Rohan Gift Your Gear receives many generous donations of unwanted outdoor clothing and equipment. “If an outdoor jacket is worn for a couple of years then ends up forgotten in the back of a wardrobe its useful life is never achieved.
All the outdoor gear you donate will make a real difference to the UK community organisations, youth groups and charities who receive it. Enabling others to benefit from life changing experiences in the great outdoors regardless of their circumstances.
Find A Rohan Shop:rohantime.com/rohan-shop-finder
