The Nest Haberdashery Thrift Shop
Highlights
- Explore preloved and vintage fabrics, enhancing your crafting projects while supporting sustainable practices.
- Engage with friendly volunteers who share their expertise, enriching your skills in a welcoming environment.
- Discover unique haberdashery notions and sewing machines, perfect for your next handmade creation.
- Participate in low-cost workshops, empowering local girls through craft mentoring and community connection.
The Nest Haberdashery is a volunteer-led social enterprise operated by women’s charity, The Nest Community. They sort donations from the public in the Textile Recovery Centre and sell them in the Haberdashery, or use them in the craft mentoring program for high school students.
The organisation’s core values are sustainability, skill sharing, and handmade living. The Haberdashery stocks donated preloved and vintage fabrics, yarn, patterns, haberdashery notions, and even sewing machines.
Revenue from the haberdashery funds low-cost craft workshops and a free mentoring program for girls from local schools.
The friendly Haberdashery volunteers are always ready to share their knowledge and help with advice about fabric, crafting, and handmade skills. And of course they all love to have a chat about making.
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Actively welcomes people with access needs.
General access
- Staff are trained in disability awareness.
Physical – Mobility
Caters for people with sufficient mobility to climb a few steps but who would benefit from fixtures to aid balance. (This includes people using walking frames and mobility aids)
- Uses floors/coverings which are slip resistant, firm and smooth
- Uses non-slip tiles in the bathroom or slip resistant matting
- Grab rails in the bathroom
Physical – Wheelchair
Caters for people who use a wheelchair.
- Step free outdoor pathways (includes picnic areas, barbecues and shelters)
- A step free main entrance to the building and/or reception area (includes ramps or slopes with a maximum gradient of 1:14, otherwise are too steep for wheelchairs)
- Step free access to the conference or function room
- Doorways which are easy to open and have lever handles (doorways 850mm or wider when open and not heavy).
- An accessible public toilet which is unlocked.
- At least one wheelchair accessible parking space with wheelchair accessible signage clearly displayed (International standards are 3200mm wide x 2500 mm high).