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"Most people I know, especially those with children, have an abundance of sporting equipment, clothing, and shoes that the children have either outgrown or no longer use, that is simply gathering dust in a garage or cupboard."
That's the message from Steffan Rees, a karate instructor in Wales who started Play It Again Sport two years ago after noticing that kids weren't attending lessons because they couldn't afford the equipment or the classes they were attending.
He also realized there was a "mountain" of unused and unwanted sports equipment lying around in people's homes, and Play It Again Sport was born.
Rees collects the equipment, cleans it, and sells it at very low prices to people who can't afford it, either donating it to schools or pop-up shops, or donating it to children who can't afford it in the first place.
Play It Again Sport diverts more than 15,000 items from landfill every year.
"Not only are we managing a huge recycling operation, but we are also making sport accessible to children who otherwise may not be able to afford the equipment to participate in sporting activities," Natasha Burnell from the charity People and Work, which now runs Play It Again Sport, tells the South Wales Argus.
"Most people
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