Nominee Association / NGO. Bjussa.se A second-hand service where everything is for free! Bjussa = to give away in Swedish

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1 Nominee Association / NGO A second-hand service where everything is for free! Bjussa = to give away in Swedish

2 Do you recognize the situation when you have stuff that you don t need anymore taking all the storage place? Have you ever been looking for second hand items on the internet? Well in that case is the place to go for you. Give and receive. All is for free! It all started when scout friends Christoffer Munkestam and Vivi Båvner wanted to create something out of their passions, together. Christoffer loves computer programming and Vivi has devoted her life to make people more environmental friendly. In the summer of 2011 communicator Lovisa Lönegren joined the Bjussa-team and the great journey towards a non-wasting society begun. With an average of 450 ads per month Bjussa has strengthened the position as the leading website in Sweden for bortskänkes. Bjussa has been participating in EWWR every year, not only one week but all year round! page: 2 / 5

3 Vision & Mission Our aim with is to make reuse of products easy and cheap. Our vision is to make it easier to give things away instead of throwing them away. Our mission is to provide the technical platform to facilitate the process. When you use you extend the life of stuff. By reusing products energy and natural resources are saved since new items do not need to be produced, while the existing items does not need to be taken care of as waste material. The idea of is as simple as it is great. You take a photo of the stuff you want to give away (ie. a table), preferably with your smartphone, and upload it with an ad on the website. Someone who s interested in receiving your table then contacts you via the online form and the two of you decide where and when to meet up. With the secondhand service provides, items are easily mediated without money ever having to change hands. has an unique business model where companies and organisations can become Bjussa-partners. Every time they post an ad, there is also a link to their website. By choosing to give away things companies no longer need, they both reduce negative environmental impact and get promotion, green goodwill. At bjussa.se it s christmas eve every day. page: 3 / 5

4 Gröna Draken: It s a family affair: Bjussa in 2013 We have involved our visitors to the Bjussa journey and see Bjussa as a popular movement, where we get our inputs from the bjussare (ie. users of Bjussa) in order how to develop the webiste has been good year for with growth on all our platforms and a lot of attention in media. Visitors: We had up to visitors per month in 2013, compared to per month in Activity: We have now over 4000 responses per month on ads, compared to about 400 responses per month in Kupé: Social media: On Facebook ( Bjussa has doubled. Now more than 3000 likes, compared to 1428 likes (by 31 of December 2012) to. We continue posting positive environmental news on our Facebook site, one post every day! We also share news on Twitter and Google +. Media: got a lot of attention in various media in As an example we were mentioned in the weekend supplements of our two leading evening newspapers (Expressen and Aftonbladet). was also included in the swedish railroad operator s on board magazine (SJ Kupé) which has a large circulation and a wide geographical distribution. As a tool for extending the life of stuff, we were interviewed in a number of magazines with focus on recycling such as Gröna Draken, the magazine for the local Agenda 21 organisation. Metro: Technical improvements: We develop continously. In 2013, we for instance installed filters to protect users from spam and unserious users. We have also made the site load photos faster. page: 4 / 5

5 The journey continues... A design collective in Stockholm is developing a new graphical design and profile for. The plan is to launch it in spring We continue expanding in Sweden, by campaigning in the province of Skåne, while we also look for companions in Berlin and other big European cities. We have come a long way already, but we still have more to give! The possibility for European repeatability is high. We are keen to make partners across Europe and we have programmed Bjussa to easily be translated into other languages. Bjussa nuclear family Vivi Båvner Age 30, Norberg Changed life and moved to countryside. Loves locally produced food spiced with exotic flavors. Maybe I can t stop humanity from cutting the branch we are sitting on, but I can slow down the process by providing a blunt saw. Christoffer Munkestam Age 27, Stockholm town Sold his car and became member in a car pool. It s not the big that eats the small. It s the fast that eats the slow. Lovisa Lönegren Age 29, Stockholm suburb Owner of new apartment furnished with second hand goods. When I saw the sparkling happiness in the eyes of the 7 year old child, I realised that giving away my childhood horse magazines was the right thing to do now after all. page: 5 / 5