Projects

Upcycle UpCycles is a bicycle maintenance hub, youth group space, adjoining the overflow maintenance space of local business Girt By Dirt. Here we will collect discarded bicycles, and unwanted bicycle parts provided by Girt by Dirt and other local bike shops. We will work with youth teams and other community members of all

RMIT Students are collaborating with ECOSS to implement a Commercial Kitchen with considerations for use by people with Disabilities.  We are hoping to retrofit the cottage kitchen.

In collaboration with Aunty Kim and her work to share the Creation Story, a ‘soundscape box’ is to be designed, built and positioned at ECOSS

ECOSS plans to bring new life to the performance area on the village green through improvements to the stage area.

‘Crops for Community’ is educating and empowering volunteers of all abilities to create food crops to be available at our weekly produce market.

ECOSS embraced the opportunity to immerse in the Wayapa Wuurrk, and had the chance to ask Aunty Kim Wandin and Michelle many questions.

The third cubby in our Cultural Homes of the World demonstations- funded by The Andrews Foundation, is our Koori Cubby.

Healesville High School year 8 Art Students have almost completed an Earthbag ‘Home of the World’- the first of a series of cubbies that will be constructed funded by a small grant from The Andrews Foundation. 

Mt Lilydale Mercy College Students building a sculpture of Bunjil the creator as part of our reconciliation event.

ECOSS were lucky enough to recieve an Australian Government Indigenous Languages and Arts Grant in 2019. This grant enabled a very special Cultural Audit with HICSA (Healesville Indigenous Community Services Association).