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We put the Community First 🥇
Grassboots enables organisations, such as clubs, schools and universities, to easily establish their own online marketplace. Organisation-based marketplaces provide their communities with a trusted space to trade preloved goods; helping everyone play, learn and grow.
Community Organisations and Charities
43% of community sports organisations are struggling financially and 90% of school leaders claim current funding does not cover costs. Just two of many shocking statistics. Grassboots is more than a marketplace; it's a community-focused initiative that champions sustainability, re-use and inclusivity whilst helping organisations raise much needed funds. Here's how Grassboots can help:
Providing organisations with a free and easy-to-use online marketplace, allowing their communities to buy and sell preloved items related to learning and healthy living.
Empowering organisations to have their own online marketplace; turning unused sport, activity or school goods into funding for local initiatives, while making learning and playing more affordable and accessible for everyone.
Sellers can choose to donate some or all of their item's list price to their organisation of choice. Money donated can be used to fund new facilities, offset against other community costs or gift to charity.
Minimal organisational effort other than to remind their community that they have a marketplace on Grassboots.
Sellers can choose to post their item, or meet the buyer in-person at a convenient location. Our built-in messenger makes it easy to chat, coordinate, and confirm details.
Community Members
27% of parents say they have to cut back on essentials like food or heating to afford school uniform. 1 in 3 families have stopped their child from playing a sport due to high costs of clothing and equipment. 38% of parents said they could not enroll their child into music lessons due to cost.
We're passionate about inspiring more sustainable shopping habits, so we've designed Grassboots to enable consumers to buy and sell preloved items on local, community-powered marketplaces that they trust.
Here's how Grassboots is helping:
Creating easy ways for families to sell unused school, sports and activity items - promoting sustainability and community reuse.
Through our in-app messenger, Grassboots makes it easy for local users to meetup to handover their item.
Helping remove financial barriers to participation, enabling wider community involvement regardless of socio-economic status.
That affordable and easily obtainable item could be what kick starts the journey of our nation's next sporting legend, inventor, explorer or entrepreneur!
