what we’ve been working on

Complex community engagement

We are currently collaborating with Loud Fence Inc to carry out whole staff engagement in history and organisational identity of Drummond Street Services.

Heritage interpretation and stakeholder engagement - Former Ballarat Children’s Home and Ballarat Orphanage site (for City of Ballarat). Through engaging with former institutional residents and organisations, we co-designed a curatorial framework for onsite historical interpretation to represent the histories of over 4,000 children. We have now been re-engaged to deliver the detailed historical content for this project.

Continuous Voices - facilitating the community Reference Group representing sexual abuse survivors and supporters in Ballarat, to inform the development of a public memorial (for City of Ballarat).

Strategy activation

LOUD Fence Inc - development of vision and strategy on behalf of survivors of sexual abuse and their supporters.

Development and implementation of historical accountability strategy for Cafs Ballarat, including development of public exhibitions, staff training, workshops and service user engagement.

Research fieldwork, reports and reviews

Evaluation of Circus Active for Regional Arts Victoria - Circus Active was a 6-month program of circus arts across two schools, funded by DET and aimed at increasing young people’s physical activity behaviours..

Desktop research for TAG Health (including for Monash University, Western Victoria PHN, Central Goldfieds Shire and Grampians Health).

Social research fieldwork for Swinburne University’s Centre for Social Impact.

Applying a theory of change model to evaluate Art Attack, a 2 year co-design creative program with young people in Clunes for Clunes Neighbourhood House.

Community development and events

Curation and event coordination of live music and arts events, Pyrenees Summer Sessions for Pyrenees Shire Council.