We have joined the 2023 Canberra Day Appeal to raise much needed funds for our charity!
This year, the Canberra Day Appeal’s 48-hour Hands Up for Canberra Giving Day begins on Wednesday, March 8. So please, give where you live and donate here during the 48h Giving Day donation drive.
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Every $1 you donate will become $2 with matched funding available for the first $5,000 we fundraise ($10,000 total)
Please help us reach our goal #HandsUp4CBR
Raised so far
$23,398
Our goal
$10,000
About Us
Founded in Aranda in 2019, Lids4Kids is a grass-roots, 100% volunteer project which has rescued over 30 million plastic bottle lids from landfill and our environment. Right now we are turning drink and milk lids from the ACT into rainbow kindness benches, picnic tables, toys, blocks and 100s of other items. Each item is 100% recycled and 100% recyclable up to 8 times which keeps each lid out of landfill for 120-160 years!
Every lid is recused and processed by hand by our passionate volunteers; including ACT school students, parents, seniors, people with a disability, and community groups. Volunteers carefully collect, donate, wash, dry, colour-sort, and polymer-sort the lids ready for processing.
In February 2023 we opened the ACT's first small plastics recycling and education centre. There ACT residents and school groups can have a hands-on learning experience in what it takes to recycle small items.
How your donation will help
The Rainbow Kindness Bench is Lids4Kids ACT's first product made exclusively from ACT lids. Made by hand on a plastic extruder each bench uses 15 000 lids and many hours of volunteer labour.
The extruder we've had on loan is due back to Melbourne in March so we need to buy our own! The funds raised as part of the Canberra Day Appeal are crucial to raising the $16 000 needed for this project.
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A big thank you to our Supporters
$64.25
Anonymous
$15.82
Anonymous
$5.20
Karen Spedding
$31.20
Karen Spedding
$71.74
Emma H
$474.10
Emma Holliday
Fundraiser tuggernong
$305
S.m
$20.80
Vaughn Rixon
Thanks for the bucket
$15.82
Annette Middleton
$52.75
Nicky Vooght
$15.82
Anonymous
$500
Cda Prize - Most Creative Fundraising Activation!
$1,000
Cda Prize - Most Unique Donations (s)
$1,000
Cda Prize - Teamwork Makes The Dream Work!
$500
Cda Prize - Partner For The Future
$15.82
Ben Keily
Membership
$15.82
Alba
$2k
Lions Canberra City
$2k
Cbr Valley
$15.82
Hannah Van Deursen
$15.82
Sarah Chessell
$21.10
Megan A
$4.75k
Telopea Park School
$15.82
Béatrice Bruce
$105.50
Anonymous
$15.60
Joanne Healy
$15.82
David Boughey
$16.20
Neil Williams
$21.10
Felix Macneill
$15.82
David Williams
My membership fee for Lisdforkids
$15.82
A Brodrick
$52
Karen
$26.38
Joyce Crawford
$20.80
Jo
$115.44
Kate Driver
$52.75
Sara
Congratulations Lids 4 Kids!
$15
Anonymous
Membership
$52.75
Priyanga Karunathilake
$105.50
C Johnston
$15
Claudia
$15 membership for Lids4Kids
$105.50
Cathy
Well done let’s hope you make the $10,000!
$120.27
Cooleman Court
$10.55
Anonymous
$52.75
Heidi Connell
$21
Anonymous
$15.82
Ann Eldridge
$15.82
Paloma Sessions
$15.82
Irene Fung
$21.10
Sydney Holl
$15.82
Rachael Wellington
$523
Timothy Miller
Thank you Lids4Kids collectors and supporters!
$52.75
Susan Arney
Great work indeed! 🌈☺️
$15.82
Frances Wigram
For membership
$52.75
Frances Wigram
$15
Nadine Hamilton
$15 for membership (Zero waste bucket collected this morning from Fyshwick. Thanks to your helpful volunteers)
$15.82
Anonymous
$21.10
Kathryn Taylor
$16.88
Marian May
$15.82
Katia
$15.82
James Ellis-smith
$31.65
Emma Tueno
Thanks :)
$52.75
Elenor Hill
Great cause!
$15.82
Kathy O’neill
$26
Trisha Volunteers
$52.75
Carolyn Roberts
$15
Heather Dowler
$15.82
Belinda Gamlen
$15.82
Draga Sovdat
$15.82
Ann M Gilkes
$15.82
Patricia Taylor
$1,000
Lions Of The Lions Club Of Canberra Kambah
$15.82
Anonymous
$21.10
Liz
$240
Timothy Miller
Thank You Everyone for your support of our charity fundraising
$15.82
Lianne Halling
$15.82
Lesley Gray
$15.82
Emma Peacock
$15.82
Suzanne H
I’d like to become an official member - thanks!
$52.75
Anonymous
$105.50
Peter Bascomb
$15.82
Amy Bascomb
$52.75
Anonymous
$10.55
Meg Bollen
$15.82
Jayne Trustum
$15.82
Elizabeth Y
$105.50
Sharmion Forster
Such a great local initiative!
$52.75
Anonymous
Great work!
$50
Corinna & Ryan @ Recycleabilities
Recycleabilities loves Lids4Kids
$100
Kathryn Hailey
You’re doing wonderful work. Thank you.
$50
Kay
Member Kay
$15
Christine Richardson
$50
Emma Holliday
$15
Barbara Davy
$20
Emma Holliday
$115
Emma Holliday
$21.10
Narelle Miller
$15.82
Glenda Coffey
$211
Charlie Woolstencroft
$15
Ann Williams
$52.75
This is to buy 4 lid containers for “the sustainability sisters”