About Us – The Full Circle Collective

At The Full Circle Collective, our mission is to help empower individuals and communities to have a positive environmental impact through meaningful environmental action and to champion the circular economy through resource recovery, repair and reuse.

How are we achieving this?

We are an environmental charity that works with individuals, schools, organisations, and governments on a variety of sustainable initiatives, so that communities can reclaim their power, reduce the environmental overwhelm, and make small changes that, when combined, make a big impact!

We are involved in a variety of community environmental initiatives, specialising in textile waste reduction, litter prevention, resource recovery, repair and reuse, and circular economy practices.

Services we offer

Corporate, community, and schools-based events and workshops, including:
Clothes Swaps
Repair Cafes
Waste-to-art and creative upcycling workshops
Mending and repair workshops
Community clean-ups

Community and schools-based environmental education programs

Grant writing services

Environmental consulting and project management, specialising in:
Textile waste
Litter prevention and monitoring
Climate action
Circular economy
Resource recovery

Let's work together!

We love collaborating with individuals, organisations, schools, and government at all levels. So if you think we could work together we’d love to hear from you!

Meet the team

Siobhan Dongés

Co-Founder, Director, and Chief Operational Officer

Siobhan started her career as a medical researcher, with a PhD in human neurophysiology. Her shift to the environmental sector was driven by a desire to do more to protect the beautiful natural environment around us. Siobhan wears many hats for Purple Card Project and helps ensure things keep on ticking.

Bianca Bartlett

Co-Founder, Director and Sustainability Officer

Bianca has a creative, systems-based approach to environmental project management. She has a Masters in Environmental Management and Sustainability and specialises in finding circular solutions to environmental problems.

Thomas Michel

Co-Founder

Thomas brings his experience in community and public sector management to his passions for sustainability, circular economy and socially just economic development. Keenly focused on innovation and emerging technologies, he takes a creative and cross-disciplinary approach to real-world solution-making. He holds a PhD in anthropology and has qualifications in economics, statistics, management and evaluation.

Masha Kondrasheva

Waste and Reuse Project Manager

Masha has a Masters of Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development, and is a sustainability specialist with a focus on disaster resilience, community engagement, climate change adaptation, waste, resource recovery, and litter prevention.