Who We Are
Roundabout Canberra believes that every child deserves a safe start and every family deserves dignity. We provide safe, high quality, essential baby and children’s items to families in need.
We take donations of pre-loved (and new) items from the Canberra community, including cots, prams, car seats, linen, clothing, and toys. We clean, sort and safety check to ensure they meet mandatory safety standards before packaging items up to head off to a family in their time of need.
We work directly with over 500 social workers and support workers from over 100 social service and community organisations in Canberra and surrounding regions to distribute essential baby and children’s items to families in need. This includes public hospitals, women’s and domestic violence refuges, migrant and refugee support services and more. We allow the services we work with to focus on their core business while we ensure that essential items are available in great condition for their clients. While our focus is primarily on the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), we don’t place barriers on geographic location and provide support to areas of regional NSW including Queanbeyan, Braidwood, Bugendore, Cooma, Goulburn and the South Coast.
Hannah's Story
On a number of occasions prior to 2017 I wanted to donate some of my pre-loved baby items to local charities. Often the charities most likely to need these items were unable to accept donations due to a lack of both space and resources to sort, clean, safety check and store items. This meant that many valuable and needed pre-loved items weren’t able to be passed on to women in need. It also meant that when these services had clients in need, they often weren’t able to assist them with baby items and equipment quickly and easily.
In my search for someone to donate to, I came across St Kilda Mums in Melbourne and Dandelion Support Network in Sydney. I discovered similar services in various other states and territories in Australia and after reaching out to a range of local services, I realised this was something that was much needed in Canberra. So I recruited the help of a fantastic group of women to create Roundabout Canberra.
Hannah Andrevski
Founder & CEO
Why the name Roundabout?
