Pete runs a free clothes store for people doing it tough. What started as sorting donated clothes turned into something bigger — leadership and mutual aid.

1) The Project Together we set up a small craft stall on a beach bench each week, selling handmade items and demonstrating our craft live to passers-by. 2) Why I Did It (purpose / mission / goal) We wanted to explore how sharing craft in a public space could engage a community, invite conversation, and…

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…

We tried Sing With Me with someone who came with his new lover. They’d decided—quietly, deliberately—that their bond would be built around doing things: arts spaces, movement, singing, being present where something is happening rather than talking about it later. One night, at a singing gathering, he didn’t wait for an invitation. He simply walked…

StreetShelter was a small project shaped around a simple question: what does a person actually need for one safe night off the street? Focused on rest, dignity, and presence rather than programs or outcomes, the project explored what becomes possible when survival is paused, even briefly.

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…

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…

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…

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…

What we did It started as basically just me and him. Two people with a big idea and not much else: “Let’s start a rock band.” A community centre came alongside us in a huge way. Their workers hired a musician to guide us, gave us space to rehearse, and even organised a radio spot…

A small project that moves good, fitting shoes into the lives of people who need them—so they can walk without pain, shame, or fear of wearing out what they already have.

A small, steady project that moves basic white bread and rolls into homes that need them—no forms, no proving, just food given with respect.

This is where the work gathers—projects that began because something needed care. Some are finished. Some are still becoming. All of them matter to someone.

Not every idea arrives fully formed. Some come as a feeling. A question. A quiet sense that something might be worth trying — without any certainty about where it will lead. This small project exists to make room for those beginnings. Where this shows up This work often appears in conversation. Someone shares an idea…

Experiments and dignity, care and participation