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Community Projects Don’t Sit Still
I’ve never seen anything change as fast as a community project. Not weather. Not moods. Not politics. Community projects shift faster than language can keep up. It’s like the moment something becomes “established,” it starts to destabilise. As soon as you think you know what it is, it becomes something else. The centre moves. The…
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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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Community Projects Don’t Sit Still
I’ve never seen anything change as fast as a community project. Not weather. Not moods. Not politics. Community projects shift faster than language can keep up. It’s like the moment something becomes “established,” it starts to destabilise. As soon as you think you know what it is, it becomes something else. The centre moves. The…
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When Giving Becomes Loud
There’s a line I keep coming back to: “Via a garish methodology, the client is freshly recognised as a consumer of social assistance as well as conventional charitable products.” It’s ugly on purpose. It names something that often hides behind good intentions: the moment a person becomes a “unit of need,” a receiver of goods,…
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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…
