Welcome. These are the places where ideas meet life — and where something real begins.
This space isn’t a résumé.
It’s not a portfolio of polished achievements.
It’s a living trail of small projects — creative, messy, faithful, hopeful — all rooted in community care and presence.
Some of these projects are finished.
Some are still growing.
Some barely existed until someone showed up.
You don’t need to read everything.
You don’t need to understand it all.
You’re invited to step into whatever draws your eye or your heart.
Why Small Projects Matter
Small projects change the world the way slow rivers carve canyons — not with noise, but with persistence.
Here you’ll find projects that:
- Respond to real need in the community
- Create connection, care, and participation
- Invite people in, not just observe them
- Blend creativity with compassion
- Start small but have deep echoes
Each post shows:
- What the project is
- How it began
- What is happening now
- What might come next
See What’s Possible
These stories are more than inspiration — they’re proof of possibility.
Explore and see what resonates with you:
- Community care and material support
- Creative and social design
- Church, neighbourhood, and care-based work
- Experiments that worked — and ones that didn’t
- Ideas that are still becoming
Each project is a doorway. Some lead to long stories. Some lead to short moments. Some lead to something still in motion.
Are You Thinking of a Small Project Too?
If you have an idea — even if it’s messy, half-formed, or unfinished — I want to hear it.
Maybe you:
- Have a small idea that could become a real community project
- Want to test something brave, creative, or practical
- See a need that’s not yet being met
- Want someone to help you shape the first steps
Let’s explore what’s possible together.
Read a few projects here first — it’ll show you the kinds of work I’m drawn to, the way I write about the process, and the kinds of collaborations that could grow into something meaningful.
How Collaborations Work
Here’s how we might begin:
- Start with your idea — short, authentic, honest.
- We talk through it — purpose, audience, context, first steps.
- We sketch a small beginning — just a few weeks or a first run.
- We learn as we go — no pressure for perfection.
Small projects succeed when they:
- Have purpose before polish
- Are manageable before massive
- Invite presence before performance
Ready to talk about your idea?
👉 Let’s build a project together
Not sure where to start?
Try reading:
- A project that speaks to you
- One that feels like something you’d like to do
- One that feels close to what you care about
And then reach out.
There’s no right way to start — only the way that draws you forward.
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I think I want to start a small project but don’t know what
Welcome. These are the places where ideas meet life — and where something real begins. This space isn’t a résumé. It’s not a portfolio of polished achievements. It’s a living trail of small projects — creative, messy, faithful, hopeful — all rooted in community care and presence. Some of these projects are finished. Some are…
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Small Project: RFT in Patrick Street. Street counselling at a local drop in centre.
Where A drop-in centre. What I Did We didn’t just drop in. We showed up consistently. Same place, same days, long enough that people stopped seeing me as “new” and started seeing me as “known.” We learned names. Stories. Habits. Who drank tea, who avoided eye contact, who needed silence before words. We got to…
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We just went down to a shelter and helped
Project We started hanging out at a drop-in centre but we had a purpose What we did We visited a drop-in centre and simply spent time there. We talked with people, listened to stories, shared a few ordinary conversations. No surveys. No agenda. Just presence. Why this mattered We were studying the topic, but books…
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We started a Donut Run – we delivered free donuts to night shelters
Small Community Project We collected end of day donuts and drove around night shelters and gave them out while having conversations about homelessness What We Did Each evening, local bakeries gave us their leftover donuts at the end of their day. Instead of letting them go to waste, we picked them up and took them…
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We collected clothes from the Tip Shop Trolleys and distributed it all
What we did We discovered the South Hobart tip shop had old shopping trolleys out the front, filled with good clothes—free. Nothing. Nil. Nudda. We’d travel there, go through the trolleys carefully, and choose what we thought would actually work for people we knew. Then came the second half of the project: giving them away—which…
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We bought cheap secondhand Clothes for Giveaway.
Small community project We bought clothes at $5 a Bag and distributed them at our community. What we did A new op-shop opened with big bins of clothes and a simple deal: five dollars to fill a bag. I’d go through the bins slowly, picking things I thought would actually look good on people in…
