Community

No business is an island! We love being part of a thriving local and global community. Over the years, we’ve been lucky to work with and support many wonderful organisations, charities and art centres, including:

Givit. We donated over $11,000 to assist with the recovery after the floods in NSW and QLD in March 2022
Red Cross. We donated over $8000 in January 2020 after the devastating fires along the East Coast of Australia
Trust For Nature. An organisation creating covenants on private land to protect diversity. We donated over $4000 in September 2021
Oxfam. We donated over $2000 to support artisans in India during the 2021 Covid-19 lockdown

Indigenous Literacy Foundation. We donated a percentage of sales in December 2020
Djirra. We donated over $1000 to this service providing support to Indigenous families experiencing family violence in 2021.
Clean Water 4 Artisans. We donated $1300 to Mehera Shaw's water filtration plant in India in 2018.
RRR community radio station. We’ve donated five bags to their radiothons every year since 2007. Long live community radio
Bush Heritage Australia. A not-for-profit purchasing land of high conservation value, partnering with Aboriginal groups to protect and conserve ecologically important land across the nation. Our SS 11/12 collection, created in connection with BHA and featuring the artworks of locals artists Anna Reidy, Jess Irvin and Clare James, highlighted some of Australia’s endangered orchid species. We donated 20% of the profits to BHA
The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. An organisation that really demonstrates the power of a caring community. We have donated a number of times over the years
Injalak Arts. An Aboriginal owned, not-for-profit social enterprise based in the Northern Territory, dedicated to empowering its members with a program of positive social, economic and cultural projects. We collaborated with Injalak Arts on our HOME 2016 collection, which featured their designs and prints
Care International. Care International helped to connect us with our Filipino weavers, who produced the woven mats of our HOME 2016 collection
Women Weave. A Fair Trade accredited charitable trust devoted to the economic and social empowerment of women weavers across India. We donated during the Covid-19 pandemic to support artisans that experienced cancelled orders and were left without work

We also pride ourselves on making regular donations of product and fabric and leather scraps to local primary schools, kindergartens and organisations all the year round.

Nancybird is based on the banks of the Merri Creek, on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, whom we acknowledge as the Traditional Owners of the land on which we work, recognising their continuing connection to land, waters, and culture. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present, and emerging, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island peoples today and every day.