The Tiny Treasures Project
Re-homing children's picture books and football boots
Children's Picture books
The Tiny Treasures project facilitates the provision of pre-loved and new books to children in remote areas of primary school-age Australia. Throughout the year, Tiny Treasures seeks and collects donations of children's picture books and re-distributes them to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities nationally.
In 2016, the Tiny Treasures project collected and distributed over 700 children's books to the Tiwi, Bathurst, and Melville Islands. We have established an ongoing partnership with the Tiwi Aboriginal community, which is grateful for the assistance the project has provided.
In 2019, Tiny Treasures delivered 1000 books to Cherbourg Shire Council in Central Queensland and added them to their Indigenous Learning Centre to enable access for families to take home and read to their children
In 2020, 800 books were sent to Castlemaine Community Centre in central Victoria for use as components of education packs to be sent to families across the region
Post-Covid BNB steadily expanded its clientele, due largely to word of mouth and social
media.
We have also expanded the types of clients we now service with booksnboots.
In 2024, we sent books to juvenile Detention Centres and Family Violence Support Centres.
We also reached the milestone of 50,000 books delivered to 80 First Nations communities.
This includes the delivery of sports boots to thirty First Nations mobs along the Stuart
Highway from Fringe communities, including Alice Springs, to Uluru.
We are extremely proud of all our Booksnboots volunteers who made this possible while
we grow from strength to strength
Community Partnership
We are proud to be partnering with the following organisation in 2021
Katherine Isolated Children's Service (KICS), Katherine Northern Territory
This year we are thrilled to partner with the Katherine Isolated Children’s Service (KICS). KICS is a not-for-profit, registered charity and an incorporated association that began remote playgroups in the Northern Territory in 1988.
KICS visits children and families who are socially and geographically isolated, living on pastoral properties, in Indigenous communities, in and participates in invitational events such as camp drafts, Ladies Days, Family Days, and Katherine School of the Air events.
KICS visit the following Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory:
Amanidgi, Barunga, Beswick, Bulla Camp, Bulman, Corella Creek, Dagaragu, Devil Springs, Jilkminggan, Kalkaringi, Kiana, Kybrook Farms, Lajamanu, Limmen Bight, Lingara, Manyallaluk, Marlinja, Minyerri, Myatt, Ngukurr, Numbulwar, Pigeon Hole Community, Police Lagoon, Robinson River, Urapunga, Yarralin
