Chapter Profile
BWB Perth
BWB Perth chapter profile, contacts, collaboration opportunities, and related updates.
Chapter Snapshot
- Status
- unknown
- Metro / Region
- Perth
- Country
- Australia
- State / Province
- Western Australia
Contact and Links
Official BWB page: https://burnerswithoutborders.org/chapters/perth-wa-australia/
Social media: facebook
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Local Context
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Collaboration Priorities
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Research Notes
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Open Questions
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Potential Collaboration Opportunities
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FORM Building a State of Creativity
FORM is a Perth-based Western Australian creative organization with public art, placemaking, creative learning, cultural tourism, and community-facing arts programs. This makes it a strong fit for BWB Perth projects involving civic imagination, public-space activation, creative reuse, and participatory art with local communities.
- Co-design a small public-space activation, temporary installation, or mural-style community beautification project.
- Run an artist-led creative reuse workshop using salvaged materials from local circular-economy partners.
- Develop a grant-ready placemaking concept with a neighborhood group or City of Perth partner.
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DADAA
DADAA works at the intersection of arts, disability, inclusion, and community cultural development, with hubs listed in Fremantle, Midland, and Lancelin. Its stated partnerships with artists, communities, governments, nonprofits, and arts organizations make it a strong lead for inclusive participatory art and accessible community activation.
- Co-host an accessible community art build or storytelling workshop connected to neighborhood resilience.
- Invite DADAA artists or facilitators to advise on inclusive event design for BWB Perth activities.
- Collaborate on an exhibition or public program around care, mutual aid, and civic belonging.
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Uniting WA - Tranby Engagement Hub
Tranby Engagement Hub provides practical support for adults sleeping rough or in crisis accommodation in and around the City of Perth, including food, showers, and one-to-one support. BWB Perth could be useful as a volunteer-mobilization and material-support partner, especially for behind-the-scenes logistics.
- Organize care-pack, clothing, or hygiene-supply sorting days based on Tranby’s current needs.
- Recruit trained BWB volunteers for meal-support or logistics roles through Uniting WA’s volunteer pathways.
- Support a coordinated resource day with service-navigation, repair, and supply-distribution partners.
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Foodbank WA
Foodbank WA has major food-relief infrastructure in Perth, including a Perth Airport branch and mobile foodbank activity across Perth metro areas. It is a strong fit for BWB Perth supply-chain support, food drives, volunteer crews, and emergency food-relief logistics.
- Run a targeted food drive based on Foodbank WA’s current requested items.
- Organize BWB volunteer teams for warehouse, sorting, or mobile foodbank support where group volunteering is available.
- Create an emergency pantry-kit pipeline with neighborhood partners and local businesses.
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Orange Sky Perth
Orange Sky Perth provides mobile laundry and connection services for people experiencing homelessness or hardship. It aligns with BWB’s practical, human-scale service ethos and could pair well with hygiene-kit drives, volunteer mobilization, and co-located service events.
- Collect laundry supplies or hygiene items requested by Orange Sky’s local team.
- Recruit BWB volunteers into Orange Sky’s formal onboarding process for Perth shifts.
- Coordinate with another service provider for a combined laundry, meal, repair, and resource-navigation day.
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Perth NRM
Perth NRM works with communities, organizations, schools, and councils on natural-resource management, coastal resilience, urban revegetation, and biodiversity projects. BWB Perth could add event energy, volunteer crews, and community storytelling to existing stewardship or resilience projects.
- Mobilize BWB volunteers for revegetation, coastal-care, or urban-biodiversity stewardship days.
- Co-host a neighborhood resilience walk or hands-on ecological restoration workshop.
- Pair an environmental workday with creative interpretation, signage, or community art.
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Keep Australia Beautiful WA - Adopt-a-Spot
Keep Australia Beautiful WA’s Adopt-a-Spot program lets individuals, groups, and businesses adopt local parks, waterways, beaches, wetlands, and other public sites for recurring litter prevention. This offers a clear, low-barrier structure for BWB Perth stewardship days.
- Register a recurring BWB Perth Adopt-a-Spot cleanup site with a local neighborhood group.
- Turn cleanup days into creative reuse or public-art workshops using safe recovered materials.
- Pair litter cleanups with local waste education and resilience mapping.
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Lotterywest
Lotterywest is a major WA grantmaker supporting nonprofit and local-government community projects, with priority areas that can align with inclusive community, cultural experiences, sustainability, and active healthy communities. It is a strong funding pathway for BWB Perth projects if paired with an eligible incorporated partner.
- Use a local nonprofit or City partner as the eligible applicant for a small community resilience, arts, or repair pilot.
- Build a matching-campaign or volunteer-in-kind component into a Lotterywest-aligned project plan.
- Use Lotterywest’s grant guidance to shape governance, outcomes, and evaluation before applying.
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Fremantle Foundation
Fremantle Foundation is a community foundation supporting WA communities through grants and donor-advised giving infrastructure. It may be relevant for donor introductions, small-grant pathways, or matching campaigns for Perth metro civic projects.
- Explore a donor-advised or matching-campaign pathway for a defined BWB Perth pilot.
- Seek guidance on local charitable partners that can auspice or co-host a grassroots project.
- Apply for or align with a community grant if the project matches current foundation priorities.
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UnionsWA
UnionsWA is the peak trade-union body in Western Australia and provides public information on pay, conditions, and work health and safety. For BWB Perth, the practical fit is safety culture, worker-resource knowledge, and introductions to skilled worker networks for nonpartisan civic build or repair projects.
- Invite a work-health-and-safety-informed speaker to help design safety protocols for volunteer build days.
- Ask for referrals to appropriate affiliate unions for trade-specific advice on safe community infrastructure projects.
- Co-host a worker-resource and mutual-aid information table at a community service event.
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MATES in Construction
MATES in Construction provides peer-support and training programs focused on mental health and suicide prevention in the building and construction industry. It could help BWB Perth build a safer, more supportive culture around volunteer construction, repair, and trade-heavy community projects.
- Arrange mental-health or peer-support training for BWB volunteers involved in build and repair projects.
- Invite MATES to a worker-resource event connected to community infrastructure or repair work.
- Use MATES guidance to design wellbeing protocols for high-intensity volunteer workdays.
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ReMida Perth
ReMida Perth is a creative reuse center that rescues unwanted materials and repurposes them for education, arts, and environmental activities. It is an unusually strong fit for BWB Perth projects involving creative reuse, public art, low-cost build materials, and waste reduction.
- Source safe reclaimed materials for a BWB public-art, shade, wayfinding, or event-infrastructure build.
- Co-host a creative reuse workshop with families, schools, or neighborhood groups.
- Organize a clean offcut and reusable-material collection drive with local businesses.
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City of Perth
City of Perth is the core public partner for permits, public-space access, community grants, library and community facilities, volunteering, and local emergency information in the central city. It is likely the most important public-agency lead for BWB Perth projects in parks, streets, libraries, and civic spaces.
- Apply for sponsorship or grants for a public-space activation, repair event, resilience workshop, or community arts project.
- Use City venues or library spaces for free public workshops and resource fairs.
- Coordinate any cleanup, public event, or street activation through the correct City permit and community-engagement channels.
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Department of Fire and Emergency Services Western Australia
DFES is Western Australia’s lead emergency-services agency and provides public disaster-resilience grant information, preparedness resources, and volunteer pathways. BWB Perth should not present itself as an emergency responder, but DFES-aligned materials could support preparedness workshops and resilience planning with local governments or community groups.
- Co-host a preparedness workshop using official DFES guidance with a local council or community center.
- Support a neighborhood resilience-hub planning exercise with public-agency-aligned information.
- Refer interested residents to official DFES volunteer pathways rather than duplicating emergency-response roles.
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Perth Artifactory
Perth Artifactory is a community workshop and makerspace in Osborne Park with practical making, fabrication, electronics, and community skill-sharing capacity. It is a strong technical partner for BWB Perth build days, prototypes, repair projects, and low-cost civic infrastructure.
- Host a BWB build day for repair, signage, shade, wayfinding, or event-infrastructure prototypes.
- Run tool-safety and fabrication workshops for BWB volunteers.
- Prototype open-source emergency, communications, or community-service infrastructure.
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Tools n Things Library
Tools n Things Library is a volunteer-led library of things in Leederville, lending tools, gardening, camping, sporting, and household items. It is a practical infrastructure partner for BWB Perth projects that need tools without buying everything new.
- Borrow tool kits for BWB cleanups, garden days, or small build projects.
- Organize a tool-donation and maintenance day to expand community access.
- Co-host a basic tool-safety or DIY repair skill-share.
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Repair Café Perth
Repair Café Perth is a North Perth repair group focused on minimizing waste and strengthening community through monthly repair activity. It fits BWB Perth’s repair, reuse, mutual aid, and skills-sharing potential.
- Co-host a repair clinic with BWB volunteer support for intake, hospitality, and outreach.
- Add a creative reuse or public-art station to a repair event.
- Recruit repair volunteers from the Burner community into existing Repair Café Perth sessions.
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Feed it Forward Incorporated
Feed it Forward is a Perth-area food-relief and food-rescue organization with public contact pathways and ACNC registration. Its food-rescue and pantry-style model could fit BWB Perth’s logistics, volunteer, and resource-redistribution strengths.
- Recruit BWB volunteers for food-rescue transport, sorting, or pantry support if approved.
- Organize a nonperishable food or packaging-supply drive based on current needs.
- Map gaps between food donors, pantry locations, and neighborhood mutual-aid partners.
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Volunteering WA
Volunteering WA is the peak body for volunteering in Western Australia and provides training, resources, volunteer matching, and corporate volunteering pathways. It could help BWB Perth professionalize volunteer coordination and connect with broader civic-service networks.
- List BWB Perth volunteer opportunities once leadership, insurance, and project details are clear.
- Use Volunteering WA training to strengthen volunteer management, risk, and onboarding practices.
- Connect BWB projects with corporate volunteer teams for cleanup, repair, or service-logistics days.
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Linkwest
Linkwest is the peak association for Western Australian neighbourhood and community resource centres, connecting a network embedded in many local communities. It is a strong sector-navigation partner for finding community centers, resident priorities, and local co-hosts across the Perth metro area.
- Identify a neighborhood or community center partner for a pilot repair, resource fair, or resilience workshop.
- Share a BWB Perth project callout through appropriate community-center networks.
- Use Linkwest guidance to design listening sessions that respect local community priorities.
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Western Australian Council of Social Service
WACOSS is the peak body for the WA community-services sector and has sector-level knowledge around poverty, disadvantage, emergency relief, and community resilience. It is a good lead for ethical partner navigation rather than direct service delivery.
- Ask for guidance on appropriate service-sector partners before launching BWB Perth relief projects.
- Use WACOSS policy and sector knowledge to avoid duplicating existing emergency-relief efforts.
- Seek introductions to community organizations that need volunteer, repair, or logistics support.
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Northbridge Common
Northbridge Common is a local Town Team-style neighborhood organization focused on culture, arts, business, sustainability, activation, and community connection in Northbridge and nearby areas. It is a strong resident-facing partner for co-designed public-space projects.
- Co-host a Northbridge listening walk followed by a small cleanup, greening, or creative activation.
- Develop a neighborhood repair, reuse, or public-art day with local residents and businesses.
- Use Northbridge Common’s local knowledge to identify trusted sites and avoid parachuting in.
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East Perth Community Group
East Perth Community Group is a volunteer-managed resident and business group focused on community engagement, local connection, and the growth of East Perth. It could provide local priorities, advisory input, and neighborhood legitimacy for BWB Perth projects.
- Hold a resident listening circle to identify practical needs before designing a BWB project.
- Co-host a small resource fair, repair clinic, or neighborhood greening day.
- Ask residents to help choose project sites, safety considerations, and accessibility needs.
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City of Perth Library
City of Perth Library is a central public learning and gathering facility with events, workshops, school visits, meeting rooms, and public programs. It is a strong venue lead for accessible BWB Perth workshops, resource fairs, and civic-learning activities.
- Host a free repair, creative reuse, or neighborhood resilience workshop.
- Run a youth-friendly service-learning or public-art activity with library programming staff.
- Use meeting rooms for BWB Perth volunteer onboarding, planning, and community listening sessions.
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McCusker Centre for Citizenship at UWA
The McCusker Centre for Citizenship at the University of Western Australia connects students with community-engaged learning and internships. It could help BWB Perth with research, volunteer coordination, evaluation, resource mapping, and community-partner support.
- Host a student intern to map Perth civic partners, service gaps, and volunteer infrastructure.
- Create a service-learning project around repair, environmental stewardship, or public-space activation.
- Ask students to help evaluate a pilot BWB Perth project and produce a replicable project guide.
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