Places

A community garden in the suburb of Riverwood managed by the Riverwood community centre. The garden regularly hosts ‘harvest days’ in which the community can come to share gardening experience along with cooking demonstrations. Excess produce is donated to NexGen Food Co-op to be handed out to local residents.

ShareCity is an ongoing research project into sustainable food economies in cities globally. Their website acts as a great educational resource on the subject of food sharing and also contains a global database of food sharing initiatives. The city of Sydney has at least 100 food sharing initiatives listed on Read more [...]

An organisation that provides legal services for disabled persons and representative organisations through community legal education and representation The goal of the Australian Centre for Disability Law offers legal advice, legal representation and referrals to other resources.

A local welfare organisation based in Redfern for the community of Waterloo. The Factory runs a variety of community programs for the area as well as being a meeting place for other organisation in the area.   The goal of the factory is to support the local community with a Read more [...]

A consultancy group that assists people in identifying assets and skills that they may have that can provide income and work in the sharing economy. The process begins with a free 15 minute phone call to work out whether the service will be useful to you. If so then you Read more [...]

An intitiave coordinated between Waverley, Woollahra and Randwick councils; the Eastern Suburbs Sustainable Schools Network organises meetings and workshops for parents, teachers and early childhood carers to meet, share and network in discussion about sustainable practices in school and the education system in general. The ESSSN meet four times a Read more [...]

A community garden in Marrickville that boasts a wide range of gardening facilities. The garden has individual plots (which have a waiting list) but numerous community plots to share as well. They also have both a citrus and a native Australian garden plot as well.

The Asylum Seekers Centre in Newtown is a NGO which provides support for asylum seekers and refugees who have arrived in Sydney. The services they provided include but are not limited to; financial aid, counselling, accomodation and employment assistance.

Mad Paws is an Australian wide online pet sitting community. The aim of Mad Paws is to help pet owners to find sitters and other pet related service within their local community. Mad Paws promises that is strictly vets all of its registered sitters and all booking are covered by Read more [...]

Ability Links is a government supported initiative in NSW that aim to provide short term support for people with disabilities in the state. ‘Linkers’ work by connecting you with resources in the community to help you find community engagement, achieve goals and feel a greater sense of self worth. To Read more [...]