“Giving quality goods is a great way to help the community. This is not only because you are helping to provide cheap and good quality goods to families that struggle to find the money to spend on these items, but the profits will also go towards the delivery of our services that have helped disadvantaged young people for 30 years.” – Father Riley

Why not do a Spring Clean and see what unused goods you have that could make a difference in the lives of Australia’s most disadvantaged youth. Clothes, bric-a-brac and other quality goods are all appreciated.

ABOUT FATHER CHRIS RILEY’S OP SHOPS

The Opportunity Shop service aims to provide affordable second-hand clothing, bric-a-brac, linen and furniture goods to those who are struggling financially.

Our Op Shops, each one known as “Father Riley’s Op Shop”, are vital in helping Youth Off The Streets raise much needed income for our programs and services. Our Op Shops are also helping the environment, and local communities. Some of the benefits of shopping at one of our Op Shops include:

• Budget shopping: we aim to sell quality items at very low prices
• Helping the environment
• Fundraising for Youth Off The Streets programs
• Ethical benefits
• Volunteering opportunities
• Raising awareness of our work with young people

You can support our Op Shops by donating to them, buying from them and volunteering in them.

All Youth Off The Streets Opportunity Shops are staffed entirely by volunteers who play a crucial role in enabling Youth Off The Streets to provide this much needed service to the local community.

For volunteering opportunities, please click here.

How To Give To One Of Our Op Shops

The best thing to do is call us and discuss what you have in mind.
For donations to our Maitland and Cessnock Op Shops, please call us on (02) 9330 3500 to arrange a pickup.

We reserve the right to refuse donations where they are not clean and/or saleable, or when we already have a large stock of items, eg books.

The donations that we are UNABLE to accept include:

• Televisions
• Television units
• Gas appliances
• 3 phase electrical goods, for example hot water services
• Dirty furniture; lounges, beds, etc
• Sofa beds
• Carpet
• Building materials
• Car batteries or tyres
• Pianos and pianolas
• Damaged goods of any kind are not accepted.
• Extra heavy goods such as pool tables, large dining tables, glass topped tables due to the weight restrictions we have regarding work, health and safety in our Op Shops.

Please do not dump your waste at our stores. Our dumping costs are over $21,000- per year and we want to use these funds for our programs, not for waste disposal.  We make every attempt to on-sell to recyclers what we can, but there is still a significant amount of waste dumped outside of operating hours that we cannot sell.

Thank you for your support.