Speakers

Speaker	Date	Topic
Peter Fenwick	Jun 05, 2018	Taking Responsibility for ourselves, our family and our society
Matt Maudlin	Jun 12, 2018	Playing Your Part Inc Matt is well known in the city of Boroondara for the work he has done in housing homeless folks over the past 20 years while he was the CEO of Servants Community Housing Inc, a charitable organization that provided safe housing to 89 folks at risk of homelessness in the suburbs of Kew, Hawthorn and Canterbury. He left Servants to strike out on some new adventures. One of these has seen him create a new housing concept for people living in rooming houses. Many of them find themselves in houses through a series of unfortunate events. Such people are able to live independently within the community .... with a little bit of community support. The legal name of his new group is Playing Our Part Inc and underneath this he will operate The Purple Cloak projects. This housing venture is completely dependent upon the community getting behind it; he is NOT seeking any levels of Government support. His belief is that an issue as hideous as homelessness will only end when we as a community stand up and say 'enough!' His experience of 20 years in the homelessness sector tells him that Government is not the answer to the problem - community is. Matt is now seeking the opportunity to speak to Clubs about my experiences of dealing with the issue of homelessness alongside informing people just how they might be able to work alongside him in seeing The Purple Cloak projects come to life.
Emma Sutcliffe and Wolf Graf	Jun 19, 2018	Boomerang Bags Boomerang Bags kicked off in 2013 when co-founders, Tania Potts and Jordyn de Boer fulfilled their dream of reducing plastic bags within their community of Burleigh Heads. Thanks to hundreds of amazing supporters and thousands of dedicated volunteers, Boomerang Bags has now become a global movement of grassroots, community action. Boomerang Bags works to reduce the use of plastic bags by engaging local communities in the making of Boomerang Bags – community made, using recycled materials. Boomerang Bags provide a free, fun, sustainable alternative to plastic bags.