Impact Data

Impact Model

Three shifts in one breath, five outcome domains underneath. Every claim pairs a community voice with a counted number and an honest label.

Numbers drawn from our asset register and fleet data. Every target is accountable.

The full impact picture

What we have done, and what the next funding could make possible

One first-stock proposal. Two QBE facilities. Four outcomes. The future columns are conditional, cumulative scenarios.

Other proposed grants · first stock

400 beds targeted for four community organisations. Parts pressed in Queensland while local sites are agreed.

QBE request · local production

$300,000 for two facilities. A projected 400 additional local beds in their first operating year.

Goods on Country current record, proposed first stock, QBE facilities, and combined year one, three and five impact scenarios
Impact	Already recordedSeptember 2026	First stockOther proposed grants	Two facilitiesQBE operating year 1	Both streamsYear 1 cumulative	Both streamsYear 3 cumulative	Both streamsYear 5 cumulative
Health and sleep	540 beds23 washers · 11 communities	+400 targetQueensland-made stock; placement to record	+400200 made locally per site	800 newMade if both plans proceed	3,680 newFirst stock + local production	6,560 newFirst stock + local production
Paid work	3,510 hHistorical estimate; not payroll	To measureLocal assembly hours and wages	800 hDirect making hours modelled	800 h+ stock assembly to measure	6,560 h+ stock assembly to measure	12,320 h+ stock assembly to measure
Recycling	3.54 tHDPE design mass; not weighed diversion	+8 tDesign mass if all are Stretch Beds	+8 tDesign mass; weigh each batch	16 t newDesign mass, not measured waste	73.6 t newDesign mass, not measured waste	131.2 t newDesign mass, not measured waste
Enterprise	320 paid bedsFour buyers; historic trade	Up to $300kGross if all sell; community decides	Up to $300kGross if all sell; seller to agree	Up to $600kGross across both streams	Up to $2.76mGross across both streams	Up to $4.92mGross across both streams

Count each bed once. The first stock is separate from facility output. Combined years assume it is completed by facility year 1 and both sites make 200 beds each in year 1, then 720 each year after. Timing and sites are not agreed.

Funding and evidence limit. The three exact bed requests total $299,250, enough for 399 beds at $750. The 400th needs another $750 or adjusted awards. No grant is awarded. Hours and plastic are modelled; sales assume every bed sells at $750 and are gross, not profit or committed orders.

How it works

How useful goods can create local jobs

Community decides what is needed. People learn by making it. Orders create paid work. The next decision stays local.

Open the full theory of change Read our strategy 2026–2031 Explore our next ten years See the five impact domains

Young people assembling a Stretch Bed with recycled plastic parts — This shows how the work is meant to happen. It does not claim that jobs or community ownership are already in place. The numbers below say what is counted, modelled or still a target.

Young people and Oonchiumpa workers assembling Stretch Beds together — This shows how the work is meant to happen. It does not claim that jobs or community ownership are already in place. The numbers below say what is counted, modelled or still a target.

By the numbers

What is here, and what is planned

540

Beds delivered

across Australia

Washing machines

in community

3.54t

HDPE design mass

177 Stretch Beds × 20kg, not weighed

Communities

across Australia

About 12

Proposed ongoing jobs

two facilities, about six roles each

$1013K

Invested

to date

The top line

Three shifts

In one breath, the change is three shifts. The five domains beneath them carry the evidence: a community voice, a counted number, and an honest label, on the same beat.

Material shift

Waste plastic becomes a durable, washable, repairable good, made On Country.

Economic shift

The freight tax puts a basic good out of reach, so the bed is built to beat the true remote cost. Value, jobs and the making stay local, and the in-house cost-down moves Goods from grant-funded toward an enterprise communities can own.

Story shift

Communities name it (Pakkimjalki Kari, named in Warumungu), design it, and own the record of it, on their terms. This is Indigenous self-determination.

Five domains

How the change shows up

Five outcome domains, each pairing a cleared community voice with a canon number from our asset register, fleet telemetry and community engagement. Every number carries an honest label and a target for Year 1, Year 3 and 2030.

How to read these numbers:VerifiedSystem or measured factModelledDerived from stated assumptionsEstimatePartial-data approximationTargetDesign goal, not yet achieved

Rest & health

Off-the-ground, washable sleep that supports the conditions needed to interrupt the scabies to rheumatic heart disease pathway. This is why a bed and a washing machine are health hardware, not furniture.

540

Beds DeliveredVerifiedYear 1 model: 1.5K

Washing Machines in CommunityVerified23 machines

Recorded Wash CyclesVerified9 cycles recorded

Product Survival RateTargetYear 1 target: 90%

“Back pain and all that. You're gonna be moving around with problems. That's why good beds matter.”

Brian Russell, Tennant Creek

Dignity & safety

A bed is safety and belonging, and the freight tax is why a basic good is out of reach. A need, not charity.

Communities ServedVerifiedYear 1 model: 12

“Hardly any people around the community have got beds. When they got family members over, there's not enough for everyone.”

Ivy, Palm Island

Self-determination & community-led design

Designed in community, with the people who will use it, and owned by them. "Never been asked" becomes "named it, tested it, built what they asked for." Self-determination runs from the design through to who holds the data.

Active StorytellersVerifiedYear 1 model: 50

Community Production Days/WeekVerifiedCurrent: 0 · Year 1: 1

“We've never been asked what sort of house we'd like to live in.”

Linda Turner, Tennant Creek

Jobs, On Country work & ownership

The making moves On Country. Real jobs are created where the plastic, the people and the need are. Young people build the product and, over time, hold the work and the ownership. Jobs and ownership are labelled future or target, never as achieved.

Ongoing Facility JobsEstimateAbout 12 ongoing jobs planned

Young People Who Have Made BedsVerified15 people

Communities Where Young People Made BedsVerified3 communities

Total Revenue Received (cumulative since inception, mostly grant-funded)VerifiedCurrent: $1,013,218.37 · Year 1: $1,100,000

“He couldn't stop thanking me. The smile on his face all the way back home. He got out showing his family the bag, and he's walking around everywhere with those shoes on, running everywhere.”

Fred Campbell, Xavier, after his first paid build (Oonchiumpa, Alice Springs)

Circular & local economy

Plastic becomes beds On Country. Value and capability stay local instead of leaving the community: a local enterprise that, over time, funds itself rather than the grant cycle.

3,540

HDPE Design Mass in Stretch BedsModelledYear 1 model: 30.0K

Average Product LifespanTargetCurrent: 10 · Year 1: 10

Local Feedstock %EstimateCurrent: 60% · Year 1: 70%

Production Cost per Unit (direct, current build path)ModelledCurrent: $534.79 · Year 1: $275

“You have to bring them on the barge. You can't just take them on the boat. You have to pay for freight. It all adds up.”

Alfred Johnson, Palm Island, on why local manufacturing matters

The model in one person

Mykel

Waste to product to skill to work to ownership, in one person. Mykel built the bed he slept on that night and kept going: seven beds by the end of the second day, out the back of the Oonchiumpa office in Alice Springs.

“I’ll be rocking up every day to make them.”
Mykel, asked whether he would make beds every day if the making moved closer to home

He turned the finished bed over in his hands, then explained it was made from bottle lids shredded and pressed into something strong enough to stand on. Fred, his Oonchiumpa support worker, watched him work, called him grandson, and said: “That could be a good employment for yourself too, grandson. Later on.”

“Comfortable as. Smooth, tight, hard, fancy.” Mykel, on the bed

Shared with consent. Mykel is a young person; his material is handled with Oonchiumpa and his guardian in the loop.

Two through-lines

What runs across all five

Two lines connect the domains. They are the spine of the story, not a footnote to the product.

The economics are the impact

A basic good is out of reach in remote communities because of the freight tax and goods that fail in months. Goods answers with a durable, washable, repairable bed built to beat the true remote cost, made On Country so the value and the jobs stay local, with an in-house cost-down that carries the making, and in time the ownership of it, further into community hands.

Indigenous sovereignty

Self-determination runs through every layer: cultural (the washing machine named Pakkimjalki Kari in Warumungu), design (named and tested in community), data (consent travels with the story), and economic (jobs, then ownership of the making). Sovereignty is what the handover means in practice.

The economics through-line

How the cost comes down

The freight tax puts a basic good out of reach, so the bed is built to beat the true remote cost, not the sticker price. As the making moves On Country and in-sources, the direct cost per bed comes down and the value stays local. The current plan is for two community facilities with about six ongoing roles at each, or about 12 jobs in total. These are proposed jobs that depend on facility funding, orders and local agreements. Separately, 15 young people across three communities have already taken part in making beds. Participation is not presented as ongoing employment.

As the making moves On Country, more of each bed stays in community. What a bed costs, what stays and what we are raising live in one place: the road to ownership.

Revenue Channels

Donor-Funded Institutional44%

Foundations / philanthropic buyers funding beds for community distribution at scale

Evidence: 107 beds to Centrecorp, institutional buyer at scale (income_type=grant, not commercial sale)

Direct Institutional (Commercial)27%

Direct commercial sales to organisations distributing to communities

Evidence: PICC 40-bed order discussed; health orgs and NPY "always looking for beds"

Corporate & RAP9%

Corporate engagement: team builds, NAIDOC week, Reconciliation Action Plan sponsorship

Direct to Consumer (Retail)9%

E-commerce sales: camping, emergency, beach use cases

Evidence: Community consultations suggest camping/emergency bed market; "cyclone beds" in NT

Community / Maker5%

Community-led production and maker-channel sales as facilities transfer to community ownership

Evidence: Ebony + Jahvan Oui training for On-Country production at Palm Island

Government Procurement4%

NT and QLD government procurement for remote communities (Supply Nation pathway)

Evidence: Conversations with NT government; QLD social procurement preference under $500K

Adjacent Products2%

Washing machines and future HDPE products from the same production line

Evidence: Pakkimjalki Kari washing machine prototype deployed; HDPE product catalogue in design

Why this is health hardware

The pathway a bed and a washer sit in

This is why we treat a bed and a washing machine as health hardware, not furniture. Off-the-ground, washable sleep supports the conditions needed to interrupt the scabies to rheumatic heart disease pathway. We do not claim a bed prevents heart disease: that needs a partner clinical method.

Washing bedding regularly is hard

Without a working washing machine, families struggle to clean bedding and clothes

Bedding stays dirty

Unwashed sheets and blankets harbour scabies mites

Scabies infection

1 in 3 children in remote communities have scabies at any time

Group A Streptococcus

Scabies sores become infected with Strep A bacteria

Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease

Repeated Strep A infections can trigger autoimmune heart damage

Community Enterprise Model

How It Works

Not licensing. Transferring. Communities receive full training, manufacturing capability, and documentation. They keep 100% of what they make and sell.

Backed by

Community partner

Oonchiumpa / Bloomfield Family

Alice Springs, NT

Cultural Lead & Design in Community

100% Aboriginal-owned consultancy. Two years designing products in community, "around the fire." Paid at university-equivalent cultural consultation rates. Planning to host production facility in Alice Springs.

Active: delivering beds On Country together

Palm Island Community Company

Palm Island, QLD

Production & Youth Employment

New production site at Palm Island. PICC has existing funding to support at-risk youth through training programs. The WISE model in action: young people run production, learn manufacturing skills, earn wages.

Active: new production site, youth pathways

Centrecorp

Distribution Partner

Grant-Funded Distribution Partner

Donor and institutional buyer at scale: 107 beds grant-funded for Utopia Homelands communities, all delivered (Ben, 11 September 2026). Demonstrates delivery at scale and provides evidence of institutional demand for funding applications.

107 beds funded and delivered: institutional partnership evidence

Dianne Stokes & Norman Frank

Tennant Creek, NT

Elder Advisory & Design in Community

Elder Dianne named the washing machine "Pakkimjalki Kari" in Warumungu language. Norman Frank founded Wilya Janta for housing advocacy. Both shape product design through direct community feedback.

Ongoing: Elder-led product refinement

Defy Design

Sydney / On-Country

Recycling & Manufacturing

Taught ACT plastic recycling and helped build the containerised production plant. Training Palm Island team (Ebony & Jahvan Oui) in production skills for community manufacturing transfer.

Active: skills transfer ongoing

“When someone asks ‘Who makes these?’ the answer is ‘We do.’”

2030 Vision

Measurement & accountability

How We Measure

How we hold product data, community feedback, consent and practical change together.

QR Code Tracking

Asset IDs record delivery. QR check-ins and follow-up histories are still being built out.

Fleet Telemetry

IoT-connected washing machines report wash cycles, energy use, and status where connectivity allows.

Empathy Ledger

Community voices tracked with cultural safety protocols and dynamic consent.

Impact API

Structured JSON endpoint for automated reporting and agent-based analysis.

Back the work

Each bed has a record. Back the next stage of local making, and follow what happens.

Shop Beds Sponsor a Bed Impact API

Catalysing Impact, powered by Social Impact Hub, in partnership with QBE Foundation.

Impact Model

What we have done, and what the next funding could make possible

How useful goods can create local jobs

Start with people who know the place

Build a real product

Turn orders into paid work

Build the parts

Build together

Use and test the bed

The next decision stays local

From the problem to the long-term shifts

What is here, and what is planned

Three shifts