Community production facilities
Make the beds in your community.
A production line that fits in shipping containers. Local plastic goes in, beds come out, and the work is paid and local. A facility goes where a community is ready and asks.
One line, four steps.
The Goods on Country facility already runs this line and made the beds for the Maningrida run. A community facility is designed as the same line, run by local makers.
01Sort and shred
02Heat, press and cool
03CNC cut and finish
04Assemble, test and pack
What a facility brings.
Employment
Paid local work, at the plant and in community.
Recycling
20 kilograms of recycled plastic in every bed.
Enterprise
Sales, repeat customers, money kept in community.
The community decides. After costs: more beds, paid local work, or making their own.
How a facility comes to a community.
Four gates. Nothing moves until the one before it is settled.
Gate 01
Agree with each community
The community organisation and Goods on Country agree who owns the beds, who is paid and who decides.
Gate 02
Cost each facility
Site, power, shed and freight, costed in one quote. The community and the funder say yes before anything is bought.
Gate 03
Confirm beds and buyers
Who buys the beds and who gets them is agreed before the line starts.
Gate 04
Build, run, review
Facilities open. Six months of making. We publish the numbers and decide with each community whether to add the next.
What it costs
$150,000
a facility, as a planning allowance. No site has been quoted, and nothing is signed.
What the money buys. Container, press, shredder, tooling, site set-up, freight and training for local makers. Bought after the community agrees and the quote is in.
Who pays. The first two facilities are proposed for philanthropic funding, so the community would not carry the set-up cost. Sales money belongs to the community organisation that sells the bed.
Where it has worked
Forty beds, pressed at the Goods on Country facility in Queensland, assembled in community
A community-controlled organisation asked for beds and washing machines for homeland families. We pressed and packed the parts at our own facility, sent them north, and young people assembled every bed in community. It is the run that proves the making.
Read how the run workedAsk about a facility
Start with a conversation.
A community can start with beds and decide later whether to make them locally. Tell us where you are and what people have asked for, and we will talk it through with you.
Goods on Country is a registered business name of The Butterfly Movement Ltd. Goods on Country is a DGR1 charity led by 100% Indigenous Directors. Who we are.