Children’s charity work ensures sport gear gets another life  Palmerston North Intermediate Normal School held a donation day where they supported the Replay charity, which recycles used sports equipment and gives it a second life with children who may have difficulty affording or accessing sports gear. The school collected 530 pieces of equipment or clothing, ranging from bike helmets, roller skates, moon hoppers, shoes, balls and a fencing mask. There were 61 pairs of rugby boots and 51 hockey sticks. The school’s sports leaders, including Julia Hutchinson, 12, and Joseph Steer,...

Replay is an initiative to pass on sports gear for young people, with local businesses coming on board to support the concept. “Do you have old or unused sports gear you would like to see passed on to children and young people who will put it to good use?” asks a statement from Sport Whanganui. Replay was established in 2017, by the McLean family in Palmerston North. It is a charity that helps communities redistribute good-quality used sports gear by passing it on to tamariki or rangatahi who need a helping hand to participate in their chosen sport or activity. Anyone in the community can...

REPLAY: a charity passing on pre-loved sports equipment to children in need 8′06″Afternoons

Sports Hawke’s Bay team up with REPLAY Sport Hawke’s Bay and REPLAY are teaming up to encourage new and used sports gear, donated from the wider community, to directly reach local children and families that may need help accessing gear of their own. The key focus of REPLAY is to help our communities stay active by connecting sports gear to reach those that need a specific piece to get started, or to continue with their physical activity. Denise McLean of REPLAY says “Our key focus with re-distributing sports gear is to be as targeted as possible so each piece reaches individuals,...

A bit of sports gear sitting in a garage was what kicked off the start of an idea helping remove barriers to sport for kids. Denise McLean began Replay in Palmerston North four years ago. She said more than 16,000 items had since been distributed to families throughout the city, as well as Taranaki and Whanganui. Leah Sole wants people in the community to help kids into sport by dropping off their unwanted sports equipment to bins like this one at Dannevirke Library. Photo / Leanne Warr. The charity was looking to expand with a donation bin in Dannevirke and one in Pahiatua and had...

Replay was set up by Denise McLean, a mother and sports enthusiast from Palmerston North. Manawatu mother’s recycling charity for sports gear expands to other regions A Manawatū charity that collects used sports gear for children who can’t afford their own is expanding to other regions.  Denise McLean started Replay after a clean out of their garage in 2017, prompting a discussion with her family about what they should do with the equipment they no longer needed. Together with her husband Andrew, and their daughters Millie and Lucy, she sat down to talk about how they could...