Annual report · FY26
A year of beds made with community.
1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026. Goods on Country is the trading name of The Butterfly Movement Ltd, a DGR1 charity. This is the year told through the places, the people and the records.
220
beds bought and paid for, by 3 organisations
9
washing machines paid for, in Tennant Creek and Maningrida
40
beds pressed at our own facility and assembled in Maningrida
540
beds recorded across 11 communities, all years, by 30 June
July to November 2025
Utopia, 167 beds for the homelands
Centrecorp Foundation bought beds for the Utopia homelands in two orders. Oonchiumpa held the build, and young people in Alice Springs and Utopia made beds for Elders. It was the largest run we have done.
“The families right now, like you see in most of those houses that we went to, the beds were on the ground. It's a safety thing. Some of our kids have come up with scabies and stuff that shed from the dogs. But knowing that they can pack that up, put it away into a tidy small space in the back of a car and use it wherever they can go. That's something they can't do with those other sturdy metal ones.”
July 2025 to March 2026
Palm Island, a youth pilot
With the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation and FRRR, 25 beds, three community sessions and 30 young people on Palm Island. The pilot was acquitted in March 2026.
“A lot of them are low income earners. Just to have that extra cost of bringing things over, it all adds up. Sometimes people would rather go without.”
September to December 2025
A room that raised a facility
At Healthy People Healthy Planet, The Funding Network raised the money for our production facility in one room, with a Bupa match.
May 2026
Maningrida, the first run off our own press
Forty beds pressed at our facility in Queensland and assembled at Gamardi by local young workers with Homeland School Company, which bought the beds and two washing machines. In Tennant Creek, Julalikari Council bought six washing machines.
June 2026
The board transition
Kristy Bloomfield and Audrey Deemal joined the board. Ben Knight and Nic Marchesi lead the Goods work and are accountable to the board.
“We want to create a safe space for our young people. There's a lack of housing, which leads to a lack of sleep, which leads to low school attendance.”
“It means something that really makes me happy. Every time I go away, it's like it's calling me. Come back home.”
“Sleep on a good mattress. For the back, the legs, the muscles.”
“We challenge a lot of that and try to make a difference. Make it easier for our people to live in their homes.”
Who backed the year.
In order of arrival.
Snow Foundation
Three years of the work itself: the visits, the bed from V1 to V4, the washing machine, and the on-Country plant. The split across those is indicative only.
Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation with FRRR, Backing the Future
The Palm Island youth pilot: 25 beds, three community sessions, 30 young people. FRRR's youth program. Acquitted in March 2026.
QBE Foundation, Catalysing Impact Stage 1
Stage one of Catalysing Impact, the blended finance program run by the Social Impact Hub.
The Funding Network
The on-Country production facility. Raised in one room at Healthy People Healthy Planet on 2 September 2025, with a Bupa match, which is why it arrived in two payments.
The John Villiers Trust
Travel to Palm Island to film the work: flights through Townsville and accommodation.
The money.
Through FY26 the Goods on Country work traded through a founder's sole-trader books while the charity was readied to take it on. The Butterfly Movement Ltd is now the charitable and operating home for Goods on Country; the earlier trading records and remaining asset and contract transfers are being reconciled. Beds and washing machines were sold at a published price, and grants paid for the work around them: the visits, the design and the facility. The charity's FY26 financial statements were audited and signed in September 2026. They are available to funders separately from this narrative report.
What we do not claim.
- No health outcome. Scabies and rheumatic heart disease are why the bed is washable and off the ground; the claim stops there.
- Community ownership of the making is a pathway, and it has not moved yet.
- Plastic per bed is a design figure of 20 kg until the production log weighs it.
Since the year closed.
- July to August 2026. The ALIVE National Centre at the University of Melbourne paid for 100 beds in full before one was made.
- August 2026. The charity became the home for Goods on Country; documentation of earlier trade, assets and contracts continues.
- September 2026. The production log opened, so paid hours and plastic weights become measured numbers.