Join us for the official launch of Redundant Charities, a book that has already received glowing praise with a 4.75/5 rating on Goodreads.

Co-hosted with Working Kind Collective, the author, Weh Yeoh, will be interviewed by Anna Sheppard, Founder and CEO of Bambuddha Group, as they delve through the intricacies of the charity sector and how charities can become better.

Following this, a book signing and networking opportunity will occur.

Your ticket of $25 covers the cost of the event and includes light nibbles and drinks, with a ticket option of $42 including the cost of the signed book as well.

'Redundant Charities' is a thought-provoking book that challenges everything we thought we knew about charities. Authored by Weh Yeoh, an entrepreneur, TEDx Speaker, and social impact worker with two decades of experience in the sector, this book presents a daring and personal exploration of the inherent flaws within today's charitable models and offers bold alternatives for creating lasting social change.

Order of events

5pm-6pm: Guests arrive, welcome drinks and networking

6pm-7pm: Fireside chat with questions from audience

7pm-9pm: Further networking and book signing

About the book

“It’s a good cause…or is it?” Is a charity worth supporting if it continues to exist perpetually? When does a charity ever end? How does it know that the job is done?

Charities aren’t geared to ever stop. They’re geared to continue. The fundamental design of charities hasn’t shifted much since their inception decades ago.

But, in a number of grassroots charities, change is afoot. These are charities that defy the limitations of this design by setting end goals and clear exit strategies. They are more interested in finishing the job than creating dependency. They are more interested in shutting down than growing. These charities are known as Redundant Charities.

In this book, Weh Yeoh builds on his experience working globally with international and grassroots charities. This book is for those looking for a new approach to charity work. An approach that starts by recognising that a successful charity is one that makes themselves redundant.

Advanced praise

“Bold and counterintuitive. Redundant Charities will make you rethink the business of giving and have you questioning whose interests are really served. An important read for anyone who cares about inequality”

- Antoinette Lattouf, Broadcaster, columnist and author of How to Lose Friends and Influence White People

“In Redundant Charities, Weh Yeoh makes a convincing case for the virtues of obsolescence: that the goal of any non-profit should be to make itself unnecessary. In this wry and incisive book, Yeoh offers a much-needed antidote to the corporate thinking and big-is-better mentality that have come to plague the non-profit industrial complex, to the detriment of donors and recipients alike. He then shows how charity work could be better: more self-aware, more far-sighted, and ultimately more effective. Anyone who works for a non-profit, or aspires to, should read this book.”

– Sebastian Strangio, author of Cambodia: From Pol Pot to Hun Sen and Beyond

About the author

Weh Yeoh has worked internationally and in Australia, his home country, in the social impact space for close to two decades. He is the founder of OIC Cambodia, an initiative that aims to establish speech therapy as a profession in Cambodia. He has a BA in Physiotherapy from the University of Sydney and an MA in Development Studies from the University of NSW. He has volunteered with people with disabilities in Vietnam, interned in India, studied Mandarin in Beijing, and milked yaks in Mongolia. He started OIC in 2013, and handed over leadership to a local Cambodian team in 2017. He has since co-founded Umbo, a social enterprise bridging the gap for rural Australians to access allied health services.