The McLean garage is storing all the donated goods.

A new community group collecting used sports gear to recycle to children who don't have access to their own is asking for public donations.

Denise McLean started Replay in February after a discussion with her family about what they should do with sports gear they no longer needed.

After having a cleanout of their gear, she and husband Andrew McLean and their daughters Millie McLean, 8, and Lucy McLean, 11, all sat down to talk about how they could make sure this gear went directly into kids' hands.

DAVID UNWIN/STUFF Left to right, Andrew McLean, Lucy McLean, 11, Millie McLean, 8, and Denise McLean are asking the public for unwanted sporting goods to donate to kids who don't have access to such gear.

Out of that came the idea to call schools and see if there was interest in having the used sports gear so they could distribute it to other children.

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After receiving great feedback from schools, Denise McLean got in touch with other organisations she thought could donate goods, gaining many balls.

They also put donation bins out. Pita Pit owner Jude Fieldhouse got on board, allowing bins in her stores in Palmerston North.

McLean said they decided to create a bundle in a bag to give to kids, which included a ball, dome cones, chalk and a small fact sheet about some of the activities they could do with what was in the bag.

The domes, chalk and donation bins were all bought by the McLean family, with Millie and Lucy donating money out of their own pocket money.

As the idea had grown from donating a corner worth of sports gear to having almost 400 pieces to donate, McLean approached Sport Manawatū, which was keen to get involved.

They set up bins for donations in Palmerston North and Feilding and McLean said they were hoping the public would donate old gear they had.

"If it fits in a bin, bring it in," she said.

At present all the gear was being stored in their family garage, with the cars relegated to the driveway.

The long-term plan was to find somewhere to store all the gear.

They are using November to do a donation drive in the hope they can get the gear out to kids for Christmas and the summer holidays.

"It would be great to get as much gear as possible," McLean said.

As well as working with schools to distribute gear, they are also linking up with Sport Manawatū's Active Families programme to redistribute some of the gear.

McLean said if there was enough involvement from the public they would like to make it an annual event.

People can drop old sports gear into the bins, which are located in both Pita Pits in Palmerston North, the Feilding Library, Sport Manawatū in Palmerston North and the Massey University Recreation centre.

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