It’s wonderful to hear about the collaboration between Willy Lang (a disability support person), his clients from the Cerebral Palsy Alliance (CPA), and the Eco House & Garden team to create a more accessible and vibrant garden space for CPA’s ‘Project Green’ in Allambie Heights. Willy initiated the project by bringing clients to the Eco […]
The huge difference a bike can make! In remote communities, a bicycle is not only a means of transport to places of employment and education, but also provide many with access to remote sources of food, water, medicine and shelter. One bicycle can support social rehabilitation and economic change. It is Bikes4Life’s mission to collect, […]
Northern Beaches Council are encouraging residents to bring their rigid pieces of 100% clean, white and dry expanded polystyrene (EPS) used for packaging of appliances and electronics to The Hub, Kimbriki for recycling on our collection day for free. Domestic quantities only (equivalent to volume of your green vegetation bin, 240L) The polystyrene must not […]
‘The Spirit of Inclusion’ Kimbriki warmly welcomed the hardworking Bushlink team earlier this year and once again during the spring season. They assisted with mulching duties around the administration building, and the entire team arrived with smiles and overflowing enthusiasm. Bushlink is committed to providing meaningful employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities through a network […]
Open Day @ The HUB A4 flyer Engaging the community, upcycling materials, reducing plastic use & fostering sustainable behaviour Boomerang Bags is a global, grassroots movement connecting and empowering local communities to tackle plastic pollution at its source. It’s a bag-share initiative supplying free reusable shopping bags for the community to borrow when they forget […]
Welcome to the Kimbriki Newsletter – Winter 2023, our quarterly community Newsletter providing updates on the Kimbriki site, Eco House & Garden events, environmental initiatives, and a range of waste and recycling news. The Clean Water Diversion System infrastructure project is progressing well with a significant percentage of work completed. This project aims to safeguard […]
The Eco House & Garden team recently visited Narraweena Public School to work with students engaged with the School Kitchen Garden program. Narraweena Public School were recipients of a Department of Education Sustainable Schools Grant for Wicking Bed Kits, soil and manures from Australian Native Landscapes to install with the students. The Eco House & […]
Reverse Garbage was established almost 50 years ago by a group of enterprising inner-west Sydney teachers motivated to reduce their community’s impact on the environment. They raised money to purchase a truck and started salvaging discarded industrial resources from local factories and reusing the materials in classrooms across the area. Today, the self-funded, not-for-profit organisation […]
Give Your Used Bikes to a Child’s Future Bikes 4 Life is a not-for-profit organisation on a mission to replace the cycle of poverty with a cycle of hope. They achieve this by recycling and restoring discarded bikes to alleviate poverty and social injustice in Australia and overseas. By providing bikes to families in marginalised […]
Bringing Smiles to Children’s Faces The Peninsula Senior Citizens Toy Repairers was established in 1975, originally known as the Warringah Senior Citizens Toy Repairers. Its primary goals were to create a beneficial organisation within the community, provide an engaging activity for senior citizens, bring joy to underprivileged children, and contribute to toy recycling efforts, reducing […]