Congratulations!

The Banksia Sustainability Foundation Awards ceremony was held last night in Sydney. It was a thrill and honour for Tiny Trowel to be named as a finalist in the Communication for Change Award category. To be listed amongst major companies was truly awesome!
Congratulations to the winner - 'War On Waste' film makers.
The documentary series was a catalyst for sweeping changes in industry, commerce and neighbourhoods. Signifiant influence towards living a more sustainable lifestyle has motivated thousands of Australians to adopt more environmentally friendly choices. Well done!
'War OnWaste' film makers were so impressive they took out the overall winner with the Golden Award. Congratulations once again.
A big thanks and shout out to Costa for his live broadcast on Facebook!

Banksia Award film, made in my own home!
While I was indisposed in Melbourne, the film brought the story of
Tiny Trowel to Sydney.
Bless and Opa!

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Aims and objectives

Tiny Trowel aims to harness the power and generosity of the wider community - 'The Crowd' - through:

1. Crowd Harvests - providing avenues through which home produce gardeners might donate fresh fruit, herbs and vegetables to food relief providers

2. Crowd Sharing- developing faith community projects to cultivate their land, enriching their food relief programs

3. Crowd Farming - inviting the community to donate food plants to farm public land

4. Crowd Talks - talks to community members to explore ways to raise their own home produce gardens

Compelled to Action

The ABS provides overwhelming data on Australia's homelessness issues, and connected to this is food insecurity.

Food Relief Providers are reporting that the increasing numbers of those presenting for assistance is increasing to the point where they can no longer meet the need.

On Census night 2011 there were 105,237 people experiencing homelessness, with 45,813 or 44% of these women. Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census Data (2011)

Domestic and family violence/Homelessness/Food Insecurity

Women are more likely to be victims of domestic and family violence, and because of this threat to their safety women (and children) are forced, or make decisions to leave their home. Over a third of women over the age of 15 have experienced physical, psychological and/or sexual violence at the hands of a current or former partner. Mouzos & Makkai, 2004,International Violence Against Women Survey

Domestic and family violence is the number one reason why people present to specialist homeless services, with 55% of female clients citing this reason and a total of 25% of all clients.www.homelessnessaustralia.org.au

Call to Action