PilotBrought to us
After-school space for young people
A supervised place for high-school students to do homework and be around each other two afternoons a week, run by parents from the community.
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The board
Projects
Everything here started as somebody's idea. The status is the honest one — an idea that has not moved says so.
How an idea becomes something that runs
Every project on this board sits at one of these stages, and the stage shown is the true one. Nothing skips ahead to look busier than it is.
- Stage 1
Idea
Somebody raised it. No commitment yet — this is where most things start.
- Stage 2
Planning
Being worked into something small enough to actually run.
- Stage 3
Pilot
Running for real, at small scale, to find out whether it works.
- Stage 4
Running
It works, and it keeps going — increasingly without us.
Two more exist for honesty rather than progress: Paused and Complete.
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Help navigating services
A small trained group who sit with people through Centrelink, housing and school paperwork — and who know which service to send somebody to when it is not us.
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IdeaBrought to us
Community kitchen
A shared kitchen night where people cook together and take meals home — raised as a way for older members and new arrivals to meet without it being an event you have to be invited to.
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Roles you can take on
Each of these belongs to a project, so you can read why it exists before deciding. Most are smaller than they sound.
Homework helper
Sit with high-school students while they work, and help when they get stuck. You do not need to be a teacher.
- Time commitment
- One afternoon a fortnight, 3.30–5.30pm
- Location
- Melbourne — in person
Services mapper
Ring around local services, write down plainly what each one covers and where its limits are, and hand back something we can publish.
- Time commitment
- About five hours, once
- Location
- Remote
Not tied to one project
Work that supports whoever needs it, rather than one piece of work.
Mentor for people starting a project
Meet regularly with somebody taking an idea to a pilot, and be the person they can ask the questions they feel they should already know the answer to.
- Time commitment
- An hour a month, per person
- Location
- Remote or in person
Nothing here is the thing you care about?
Then bring us yours. Most of the projects on this board arrived as a remark at a gathering, not as a proposal.