Clothing kids. Reducing waste. Creating ripples.

Ripple is a circular social enterprise tackling both hardship and waste - starting with our littlest Kiwis. We provide essential clothing to children living in hardship and divert unwanted textiles from landfill through our system of reuse, repair, repurposing and recycling.

Our dream? A future where it’s normal to care for our most vulnerable while taking better care of our planet. We equip kids with what they need and reduce the impact textile waste has on our environment - proving that small actions can create powerful change.

Our mission 🌱

What we do

Ripple collects, sorts, and redistributes outgrown and excess children’s clothing and shoes from families, schools, businesses, and retailers across Aotearoa. Quality items are delivered as Gear Boxes to children living in hardship through our trusted community partners. Anything beyond repair is repurposed or recycled into new products including our own RePack - giving materials a second life.

Every item that enters our system is reused or recycled, and individual impact stats are shared with each supporter, making their own ripple effect clear.

It’s a simple, powerful way for Kiwis to reduce material hardship, textile waste, and even their household carbon footprint - in a way that’s easy for them, right from their home, school, or workplace.

Our impact 🧵♻️

Ripple by numbers

31,789

Items processed

22,890

Items donated

8,479

Items recycled

420

Items repaired or repurposed

424

Kid's clothed for a year

1.9

Tonnes of C02 prevented from entering the atmosphere

31,789

Items processed

22,890

Items donated

8,479

Items recycled

420

Items repaired or repurposed

424

Kid's clothed for a year

1.9

Tonnes of C02 prevented from entering the atmosphere

Join the movement

  • From Home

    Simply purchase a collection bag, pack your unwanted items and put them on your doorstep. Leave the rest to us.

    Order a Collection Bag 

  • From School

    Empower your students to make a difference and experience how making a small change can have a big impact.

    Find out more 

  • From Work

    Engage your team and tackle hardship, carbon and waste right from your workplace, with almost zero time commitment.

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and our movement👖🧵📦♻️ 💦

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✅ Repurpose your waste. Empower the next generation.

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Why we exist

  • The Need

    We suffer from one of the worst rates of child poverty in the Western world with one in eight kids going without basic essentials items. 

  • The Excess

    Many families find themselves with an excess of outgrown or unwanted clothing and shoes and are wanting easy, sustainable ways to pass these items on.

  • The Waste

    Textiles are one of the fastest growing, carbon intensive waste streams, responsible for up to 10% of global carbon emissions  alongside oil, gas and agriculture.
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The Gear Box

A Ripple Gear Box provides all the clothing essentials a child needs day to day throughout the year. These clothing parcels save families between $200-$400 per year and are distributed through Women’s Refuge Auckland and Rotorua, Cholmondeley Children's Centre Christchurch, Oranga Tamariki Ministry for Children, Starship Foundation and Middlemore Neonatal Unit.

Families can receive one Gear Box per child per year, once these are outgrown they can send their items back through our system for either reuse or recycling.

Thanks to you

"We have had many whānau tell us how grateful they are as they struggle to have age-appropriate and good-quality clothing for their tamariki. It is great that we can pass Ripple Gear Boxes on to them." 

Sue Gill

Oranga Tamariki

"The mother who received the parcel was incredibly grateful, she isn’t someone to display a massive amount of open joy due to a very challenging life of adversity. However, when she opened the box with the tissue wrapping detail, she was so happy and immediately put one of the outfits on her daughter. Thank you for the work you’re doing; you made a difference." 

 Nurse Specialist

Auckland Hospital

"Mum was really excited to be able to gift some of the items to her son for his birthday, as well as to have warm winter clothes for all the children."

Oranga Tamariki staff

"The Mum of three boys, was so grateful and appreciated the help. It felt like Christmas. The youngest had to try everything on."  

Oranga Tamariki staff

"I just went through the parcel and you have made my day. They’re so beautiful and warm and wanted to express how thankful I am."

Gear Box Recipient

"Both the (new) Mum & I were shocked at how much was in the Gear Box, and the quality was awesome."  

Amy McDaid

Middlemore Neonatal Unit Nurse

"The three boys are stoked with their box of clothes, they were wearing them when I saw them yesterday. Their Dad said they got some awesome gears and is very grateful and would like to pass on his thanks."

Oranga Tamariki staff

"We are very grateful for the support. Having clothes for our fast-growing baby has helped a lot." 

Gear Box Recipient

"For the women we support, it’s such a beautiful gift for them to know they have a whole year’s worth of clothes for their tamariki. The impact it makes to the women and children is huge."

Linda Thompson

Women's Refuge Tamaki Makaurau

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