Membership
Membership
*$10 joining fee applies to all new and lapsed memberships
*Casual bags are available for non-members at $30 per bag
| Subscription | Bag Allocation |
| $95 | 6 |
| $115 | 8 |
| $125 | 10 |
| $155 | 14 |
| $180 | 18 |
| $190 | 20 |
| $220 | 24 |
Conditions of Membership
- Membership is open to all groups and individuals however Reverse Art Truck Inc. reserves the right to decline or terminate membership.
- The membership rate is based on the number of bags the subscribing group wishes to have access to.
- Goods collected may only be used by the subscribing group and may not be resold as is.
- The use of goods that are identifiable as having been donated from particular brands or organisations, may not be used in the service of criticism or the disparagement of those same organisations.
- The standard measure is the equivalent of a household green 54 litre garbage bag. Please bring your own garbage bags. Certain resources may be judged as being the value of multiple bags eg. a bag of wood may be judged as being worth 2 or 3 bags worth of resources.
- Membership is for 12 months from the day subscription fee is paid, and may be renewed at anytime if your material allocation has been used. UNUSED allocation does not carry over. A notice is forwarded approximately 3 weeks prior to renewal. Lapsed membership of 4 weeks and over (like new members) will incur a $10.00 joining/administration fee.
- The amount of materials collected at each visit is inspected and calculated by the employees of Reverse Art Truck Inc. and recorded on a customer card file.
- LIMIT signs are placed on some materials. The LIMITS are per membership (not per person) and must be strictly adhered to.
- Reverse Art Truck Inc. does not have umbrella coverage. Each entity must have their own membership and memberships cannot be shared.
- Reverse Art Truck Inc. takes due care and diligence on selecting and making available recycled and reusable materials for educational and community use. Reverse Art Truck Inc. is not responsible for any injury or damage cuased by the use of materials collected/supplied. Collectors and subscribers must therefore assure themselves that materials taken are suitable for the intended purpose.
Frequently Asked Questions
What if I haven't collected my allocation within 12 months?
I’m afraid that part of the condition of membership is that resource allocations must be collected within the 12 months.
Our organization is running very much in the red these last few years and we really appreciate your support.
Our CEO, Cam Lee, has long and varied experience using Reverse Art resources through primary and early years education and would be happy to come and talk with staff about how best to use our resources in order to minimise storage, enrich play and provoke STEM explorations, but only if staff feel this would be helpful.
What we offer is truly the most inexpensive resources you will have access to, and if you are running a program that involves the enrichment of play or has a ‘making’ and technology element to it, then we are absolutely the correct place to visit first.
We feel very strongly that children should be provided with access to semi-disposable items.
Resourcing education these days often emphasizes catalogues and custom-made resources that have a financial burden. This financial burden is unnecessary and actually works against the needs of children. Children need a level of disposability that supports their autonomy and the very natural “annihilation” stage of the play cycle.
We imagine that recognising this need is why you have a membership with us already.
In our experience Reverse Art resources are best used as front line, daily use resources, that are expendable and always accessible to children. The financially valuable catalogue resources are the ones that should be taking up space in your storage, the good cardboard, the good pencils, the good scissors; the expensive ribbon; Reverse Art resources by contrast should be mostly out on display and available for children who just want to make something or want to use a cardboard cone in the sandpit or length of cloth for a cubby, who want to take coloured pencils outside to draw on a tree or the cement, or want to see how long a piece of paper will float.
Children will use up resources if they are put out and will grow their understandings of the world and the materials of which it is made so much faster if they have independent access to them. There will be only a very limited need for storage for these types of expendable resources.
If staff have forgotten to use their membership, then it is worth employing a few strategies to prevent this from happening in future.
Have a policy of discussing the membership at the beginning of a planning cycle or during staff meetings. Join our newsletter or keep an eye on our Facebook Page.
If distance is an issue, then make an annual whole staff visit to us a priority or an event during planning days; or pass the initiative over to your more active parents to come in and to source resources for you.
We hope this is helpful.
Please feel free to contact us any time.