A bed off the floor. A washing machine that can be repaired. A place to make things from recycled plastic.
Tell us what would be useful where you live. We can work through the products, funding and making with you. Your community decides what happens next.
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The Stretch Bed is $750 a bed. Freight is quoted for your destination. Tell us the quantity and timing; we confirm the price, delivery and assembly plan before an order.
200 × 95 × 57cm, with a 200kg load rating. It flat-packs and takes about 5 minutes to assemble with no tools. Scan its QR code to report a problem and arrange support.
See the Stretch BedPakkimjalki Kari, named in Warumungu by Elder Dianne Stokes, uses a Commercial-grade Speed Queen base in recycled-plastic housing.
It is still a prototype. Register interest and tell us about the power, water and repairs where it would go. Availability, installation and support need a conversation before any commitment.
Register interest only.
Philanthropic funding could pay for an initial allocation of beds for a community to sell. The proceeds would remain in a community-controlled fund under an agreed arrangement.
Together we would work out who holds the stock, how buyers are found, who is paid and how the money is used. This depends on funding and community agreement. An enquiry does not reserve funded beds.
Start with what your community wants to make, the space available and the people who would run it. Equipment can be introduced in stages, with training and support agreed before work starts.
Goods can be paid to help source equipment, set up production and provide shared services a community chooses to use. The cost and responsibilities need a written scope. Community ownership remains a pathway to work through together.
See what making locally involvesChoose as many options as you like. A person from the Goods team will reply. You can also email hi@act.place.
For the longer story, read about the Goods model and our plans.