THE ONE PLACE TO START
Before you activate anything, you need Groundwork.
Your suburb is already standing on treasure — a particular gift, a way of serving your neighbourhood that no one else can offer in quite the same way. The work isn’t to invent it or import it. It’s to dig it up, name it honestly, and put it to work.
THE PROBLEM THIS SOLVES
Vision is the easy part.
Living it is the hard part.
Most boards and committees don’t say no to community activation because they’re against it. They say no because no one has ever shown them, in plain terms, what their specific hall, kitchen, land, goods or volunteers are actually worth — and who would carry the risk. Groundwork answers that before anyone is asked to decide anything.
OUR APPROACH
We don’t arrive with a blueprint. We dig.
Most consulting is architectural — it turns up with a model built for someone else’s town and installs it. Groundwork is archaeological. We dig until what’s already true about your place comes to light. You end up more like yourselves, not more like a bigger organisation across town.
Suburb & asset audit
Which spaces, land, goods and people are genuinely underused, and what your suburb actually needs.
Risk & governance
What stays with you, what Spaghetti Hub carries, and what your board needs to sign off on
Fit analysis
Which of Loop2Loop, Spaces, Harvest Hub or BrewShed (or a mix) matches your site, your capacity and community’s need.
A recommended start
One model, one site, one clear next step. Not five options to debate
Income modelling
A realistic estimate of what each option could generate, and on what timeline.
An agreed timeline
You register, we walk with you to explore the opportunities for presentation at your next meeting
WHAT GROUNDWORK ACTUALLY IS
What you get
MORE THAN ONE WAY IN
There's more than one way to begin
The Gold Test
A short, honest session that lets your leaders glimpse the treasure you’re already sitting on, and decide whether to dig.
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Free!
The Clarity Sprint
A focused few weeks to get genuinely clear on what your organisation is here to give your suburb.
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$499 with report of findings included using our proprietary discovery system.
The Full Groundwork
All of it: the audit, the fit, the income model, the risk summary and your recommended first step.
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$1,350 with report of findings using our proprietary discovery system
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Plus implementation roadmap with first toolkit outline.
Walking together -we stay alongside you as you build it, for as long as it’s genuinely helpful, and no longer.
A church? There’s a Groundwork for you too.
For churches, Groundwork can go deeper — into calling, mission and the particular gift your church carries for its neighbourhood. The same honest process, with room for the questions that matter to you. Ask us about Groundwork for Churches.
How it Works
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You register interest
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We arrange a conversation and walk your site
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We make a start on our digging for your treasure, listening, researching, looking
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You receive a Groundwork Report (this can take up to 6 weeks depending on your meeting cycle)
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You choose whether, and where, to start. We walk alongside you.
No app. We know how to work with boards and decision making committees. We know some things take time.