We turned 5 earlier this year.
We’ve loaned our assets (more than 1000) over 21 000 times to over 500 families, community groups, schools and other non profit orgs for their events.
Wowzers is right. We’ve been busy!
In April 2019 we went digital and started recording our activities and offered formal memberships to households and non profit events and organisations. Memberships grew steadily until Covid hit. We refused to be shut down while Bunnings was allowed to stay open! With legal advise on our side and sound practices in place we soldiered on and home delivered and collected items to and from our members homes. Imagine having board games, gardening gear, kitchen gadgets, musical instruments, even hair curlers just for the fun of it, delivered to keep you entertained. It was epic!!
So we restructured into a co op from July 1st and are now on the lookout for a wave of shiny new members who are psyched to take advantage of the opportunity we offer!
We are striving for self sufficiency to insulate us from the ups and down of funding for initiatives like our. By sharing the load as well as the benefit we believe we can take our award winning share economy jugganaught to the next level!
What this means in practice is we need to replace the 50 members who dropped off when we introduced a 5 hour a month time cost to the membership with people who think that’s worth it. We exist to mitigate climate change and plastic pollution so our target market are passionate conservationists who are looking for more ways to reduce their own impacts but also help others.
The cost of the opportunity is $1 per week plus a little over an hour a week – memberships are currently a 6 month commitment = $26 with a 5 hour per month time contribution. Most of our members find it easiest to do their time by attending the shed fortnightly on set rosters of 2.5 hours or one day a month of 5 hours.