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24.01.2022 Join us next week for a favourite workshop from last years series - Business Model Canvas for Social Enterprise with Dr Ingrid Burkett. eepurl.com/cbKByL

24.01.2022 Check out this article about exploring the tensions and opportunities that exist within fair trade and localisation movements.

24.01.2022 With Getano Bann in the coutyard this eve, we have some wicked playing coming your way at the Wine Down. Along with 25 years as a singer, songwriter, storytelle...r and entertainer, Getano is a music therapist specialising in youth issues including addictions, self esteem, anger, grief loss and bereavement and mental health. We are proud to have him on stage. See more

24.01.2022 We are super excited to have a screening of David Bradburys latest film in West End on the evening of 23rd November followed by a Q&A with David. AMERICA & ME documents the filmmakers observations over three months in the US during the lead up to the shock election of Donald Trump. A one-man band and always traveling with his camera, David Bradbury was easily able to slip into gear and start filming while on tour of his antimilitarism documentary War on Trial. Eight US citie...s later he chronicled what was happening on the streets of America; 40 years after Ronald Reagan introduced the economic theories of Milton Friedman and the infamous Chicago Boys to the world. He interviews veterans of Americas failed wars to maintain Empire, gets down in the gutter with the homeless to find out what life is like on the streets, speaks to a nun who was violated by the military junta in Guatemala under the directions of a CIA operative, goes to the US/Mexican border where Trump plans to build the Wall, visits the rust belt of middle America where factories are closed and people are hurting...and ends up at the Standing Rock protest camp for Election Day. These vignettes give context to his critique of the American penchant for Empire, using telling moments from his earlier films shot on the edge of the American colossus Nicaragua No Pasaran, Chile Hasta Cuando?, Frontline, South of the Border and Public Enemy Number One. Screening details: 6:30 pm23 rd ofvember Tickets available online at Eventbrite or at the door. See more

24.01.2022 Social Enterprise Drinks Tonight at 6pm - come along and catch up with people from in and around the social enterprise sector (at Lock n Load, West End) http://www.meetup.com/The-Brisbane-Social-Enterprise-Mee//

23.01.2022 Hey everyone, Theres a girls skating workshop on tomorrow which looks super fun.

23.01.2022 Just Earth is launching soon and LOOKING FOR AN AMAZEBALLS HEAD COOK/CAFE MANAGER Are you an excellent cook and cafe manager who is able to full fill this dual role? You will love the opportunity to work in a social enterprise committed to local organics and food sustainability. http://www.ethicaljobs.com.au/Memb//head-cook-cafe-manager

23.01.2022 Just Earth will open on Monday September 12. Just Earth is a cafe, Coffee Roastery, eco store and community hub. Our coffee is roasted daily. We offer a seasonal menu with fresh produce sourced form local organic farms and prepared in house. Just Earth is a social enterprise that helps alleviate poverty globally by directly supporting our producers via fair trade relationships. Locally, we provide business training, finance and retail opportunities to people who may be disad...vantaged in the labour market, We distribute profit to Just Earth Foundation and SPIRAL Community Hub. Just Earth has grown out of Justice Products (Established in 1985 by locals in the West End community) formerly based on West Ends Boundary St. We are about to open at 29 Vulture St (across the Rd from West End State School). Come and celebrate the opening of a space that welcomes and supports the whole community. See more

23.01.2022 This Wednesday: Social Enterprise Drinks, Lock n Load at 6pm. This month, hear about harnessing the internet as a platform for social change. Gifts4Good enable...s online shoppers to have a social impact while making their normal online purchases from big names like Amazon, iTunes and Dan Murphys. Alison Gray, founder and director, will be joining us to share her insights and experiences. Hope to see you there! http://www.meetup.com/The-Brisbane-Social-Enterprise-Mee//

21.01.2022 Hi everyone, the fabulous Meg Kanowski who has tended the paradise st community garden for the last ten years is looking for a house. They need to be out of the...ir current house by May 5th. If anyone knows of an affordable place with 3 beds in the west end area could you let me know please!!! Please spread the word too. See more

20.01.2022 Movies Under the Stars @ Just Earth Don't Miss David Bradbury's Latest Film before he goes to the U.S

18.01.2022 Get in quick folks..grab a free keep cup from us ..if you're a regular at #justearth

17.01.2022 http://eepurl.com/cmyPRD

15.01.2022 You are invited to the community wake for our fierce poet Meg on Friday 9th June at 2pm. The entertainment and ceremony starts at 3pm, followed by an open mike for more stories and songs. Pizzas provided from the Cob Oven. BYO drinks, extra munchies and chairs/picnic blanket. Meg was the key driver for paradise st community gardens for many years and did much of the early work establishing both Jane St and Paradise St community gardens with SPIRAL Community Hub. joining us from 2003. She was such a wonderful friend, confidant and generous support person for so many people in our community.

12.01.2022 A nice app to help out the home gardener https://www.growveg.com.au/garden-planner-intro.aspx

11.01.2022 We want you Community Organisers and Campaigners. Oxfam has a cracker of a job open for the right person. This is a rare opportunity for a crack campaigner/community organiser to join our awesome active Citizenship Unit. Please pass this on to anyone you know who may fit the bill!

11.01.2022 New newsletter for members and friends in the social enterprise community, click through to catch the latest and upcoming.

11.01.2022 A quick reminder - drop into Lock n Load at 6pm tonight for monthly Social Enterprise Drinks, with guest speaker Alison Gray from Gifts4Good. This is of specia...l interest to everyone interested in the internet as a tool for adding social impact to enterprising operations. We hope to see you there! http://www.meetup.com/The-Brisbane-Social-Enterprise-Mee//

10.01.2022 14 September (next Wednesday): At this months Social Enterprise Drinks, we will be joined by The Good Beer Cos James Grugeon, a "a man on a mission: to sell a... lot of good beer to raise money for good causes." As Australias first social enterprise beer company, Good Beer has dedicated 50% of its profits to social causes. Come along for some SocEnt chatter and some Good Beer. This time the drinks are at Just Earth, a social enterprise cafe and fair trade retailer in West End (Address: 29 Vulture Street). See you there at 6pm, Wednesday 14th. Join the Meetup: http://meetu.ps/2Z9wVK

10.01.2022 Movies Under the Stars @ Just Earth Dont Miss David Bradburys Latest Film before he goes to the U.S

10.01.2022 Could some one please inform the Australian government.

10.01.2022 Our social enterprise Just Earth in the weekend edition this weekend.

09.01.2022 Looking forward to seeing you at the launch!

09.01.2022 eepurl.com/b09vyz

08.01.2022 Get in quick folks..grab a free keep cup from us ..if youre a regular at #justearth

07.01.2022 So proud of wonderful Saba and the Eritrean Australian Womens Association which started Muooz.

04.01.2022 Last chance to book for tomorrows workshop with Dr Ingrid Burkett: Business Model Canvas for Social Enterprise. Lunch and beverages included. http://eepurl.com/ccoLs5

04.01.2022 Socially conscious experienced and capable hospitality guru ..we want you!!!

04.01.2022 Fran Thomas is 81 years old. Her car is 64 years old. She urgently needs a few more regular, committed volunteers to help her nurture and care for the Moorhen Flats bushland reserve down in Woolloongabba. Moorhen Flats is one of the only inner-city wetland habitats of its kind in Brisbane and needs a lot more love and maintenance. If you want to get involved, there are regular working bees on the first Saturday of each month from 2pm. You can call Fran on 3397 2246. If she do...esnt answer, leave a message and shell get back to you. The Moorhen Flats Freecs page has more details on the working bees. Please share this around and tag anyone who lives around Woolloongabba, East Brisbane or Coorparoo who might be interested.

03.01.2022 If anyone is nearby 29 Vulture St, and could lend a hand loading some large equipment in to the space be much appreciated. ill be there in 10 minutes. xx

02.01.2022 Wed 16 May: Crowdfunding and Community Building for Social Enterprise (Workshop) Learn to find, inspire and build a community to support your project from ideas... to impact, straight from Tom Dawkins, co-founder and CEO of the industry-leading StartSomeGood Crowdfunding platform. This workshop captures the essentials for both campaign-ready project creators and anyone simply interested in finding out about this new and effective pathway to growth and social capital. More info & Tickets: https://bit.ly/2jJixRi

02.01.2022 Looking forward to hearing from Robyn Cook at the SocEnt Drinks on Wednesday evening - Robyn (the Kitchen Garden Teacher) has cultivated a new generation of per...maculture- and nutrition-savvy individuals through her work with schools and micro-business. Will be a great chat! Read more and join: http://eepurl.com/cj3aVr

01.01.2022 These teens are suing the government for wrecking the planet. Spoiler alert: The courts are ruling in their favor. (via NowThis)

01.01.2022 As many of you would remember SPIRAL Hub first established Jane St garden and re-established Paradise St Community Garden back in 2003 with local council support from Helen Abrahams. We jumped in and made them happen informed by the just do it attitude of our local Councillor at the time. The Paradise and Jane St gardens both broke the rules at the time for what constituted recreational activities in public parks. I dont think that has ever changed. Theyve stayed ...because they are there and its impossible politically for Council to close them. It would not be a good idea to for the community to consent to shifting the garden under the guise of an improvement project The power of those gardens is that they are there. Allowing them to be destroyed while a new master plan gets built would be very dangerous for their future. It takes a lot to build a community garden, not just the infrastructure and the plants and gardens themselves but the sense of spirit collective and community ownership. Community building is a process and a discipline and such projects do not just appear. The reasons the gardens have stood the test of time and maintained ongoing community ownership and engagement, is in part due to their initial community foundations that set a culture of constantly welcoming new waves of gardeners in to the space. These gardens were started with very little and were built entirely with the labour of community volunteers and the materials and equipments scavanged by friends and neighbours. The designs were done collectively calling our friends and comrades together with permaculture experience to help us design and plan them. So many great people have volunteered in these gardens at some time in their life while being a part of the West End Community. For these reasons they continue to hold the spirit of community, and being slotted into Master Plan designed by Council would not continue on ..well the same vibe. There is also a very real risk of what would happen once these pesky rule breaking gardens were out of the way Community gardens are place based and while the community may shift with the space it would in so many ways mean starting again. It would not be the same, if it in fact continues. Im sure many West Enders walk past Jane St and remember activities and projects held there and former gardeners who first turned that hard dry sandy dirt, and remember them and how pleased theyd be to see it in its flourishing state.