Interactive sustainability experiences for councils

Playful, interactive sustainability workshops to engage and empower your community

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What if we could captivate children with the magic of climate solutions through playful experiences?

‘Little Future Makers’ for 2 - 5 years and ‘Growing Future Makers’ for 5 - 12 years

Awe-inspiring storytelling, interactive digital floor games, and hands-on activities that capture the magic of climate solutions.

We currently collaborate with 9 councils throughout Sydney to deliver early years playgroups, school holidays experiences and events.

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Councils we collaborate with

City of Sydney

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City of Parramatta

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North Sydney Council

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Mosman Council

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Willoughby Council

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Lane Cove Council

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Northern Beaches Council

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The Hills Shire Council

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Sutherland Shire Council

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City of Sydney • City of Parramatta • North Sydney Council • Mosman Council • Willoughby Council • Lane Cove Council • Northern Beaches Council • The Hills Shire Council • Sutherland Shire Council •

Colorful illustration with a green circular background, featuring a smiling octopus, a parrot, a monkey holding a paintbrush, a rainbow, and the words 'future makers' in white

Think awe-inspiring storytelling, interactive digital floor games, and hands-on activities that capture the magic of climate solutions.

We can shape workshops to make the best use of your community venue, such as:

  • go on an edible treasure hunt through community gardens

  • build solar cars and race them outside in the sunshine

  • host highly interactive rotations indoors such as floor projections children change with their bodies and creating with preloved Lego/Dulpo

‘Little Future Makers’ for 2 - 5 years

‘Growing Future Makers’ for 5 - 12 years

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Colorful LEGO landscape with bridges, trees, flowers, and various miniature elements, with people's legs visible at the top.

Interactive themes include:

🌱 Wild At Heart (Nature based solutions)

🍎 Plate Power (Food solutions)

⭕️ Trash To Treasure (Circularity solutions)

🌊 Wave Makers (Ocean solutions)

☀️ Power Players (Renewable energy solutions)

🦋 Green Journeys (Transport solutions)

✨ Future Shapers (Young changemakers)

We also love a creative challenge and are happy to customise themes based on your needs.

All play items used in our experiences are made from nature, reloved, upcycled, recycled or - last resort - the most sustainably made item we can find.

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Colorful illustration with a smiling octopus, parrot, monkey, rainbow, and various plants and flowers, including the words 'future makers' in bold white letters.

Here’s a taste of early years playgroups, school holiday workshops and events we’ve recently delivered for councils

Interactive projections weedy seadragon
Coastal Lego
Coastal artwork
Wild At Heart workshop | Mosman Council
Colorful LEGO amusement park with water slides, trees, benches, and LEGO minifigures.
Group of children sitting on a wooden floor, playing with a large LEGO set that depicts a colorful, detailed miniature landscape with various structures, trees, and a racetrack.
Children standing around a floor with colorful flower projection on it.
Outdoor display with small game boards on the grass, two purple informational signs, trees in the background, and a clear blue sky at a sustainable event.
Lego scene with lush trees, plants, and a water feature, surrounded by children playing.
Child holding a LEGO farm scene with animals, crops, water pond, and farmer figures.
Toy animal and insect figures arranged on a black tray with dried leaves, pinecones, and magnifying glasses, creating a nature-themed display.
Board game with illustrated mountains, trees, and colorful design, featuring numerous circular game pieces with symbols and numbers, placed on a black tray. In the background, another game or tray with more pieces on a patterned rug inside a home.
Two children wearing white hats and floral shirts engaging with educational sand and water activities in outdoor trays on grass.
Lego garden scene with colorful flowers, trees, animals, children, and play structures on a black surface.
Colorful Lego building blocks and toy medical syringes on a blue tray, with more Lego pieces on a black tray in the background, set on a patterned mat in a room with windows and banners on the wall.
Church interior with stained glass windows, a large projection screen displaying cherry blossoms, and a floor projection of a city scene.
Two children playing with Lego blocks on the floor around a large Lego creation in a black tray.
Close-up of hands holding and picking up green bottle caps with a white worm illustration, inside a white container on a bed of dried twigs or straw.
A partially assembled colorful puzzle on a green-bordered puzzle board with various cartoon animals around the edges, and a blue container filled with puzzle pieces on a table.
Two children playing with a small transparent electronic device that has colorful LED lights, on a white table with a pink background.
Board game featuring a map of Australia surrounded by game pieces on grass.
Children and adults walking outdoors on a sunny day, some wearing hats, with trees and a clear blue sky in the background.
Colorful wooden toy car with solar panel on top, yellow propeller at the back, and small motor and wires, set against a white background.
A black tray with green LEGO baseplates and LEGO building blocks and figures set up as a miniature outdoor scene with trees and grass, placed on a grassy surface outside, with a colorful banner in the background promoting a future-themed event.
Three children standing on a wooden deck, holding small potted plants, wearing winter jackets and pink clothing.
Children playing with ice and water at a table, some adults supervising, indoors.
A collection of toy insects and bugs displayed on large green leaves, with a black tray, magnifying glasses, and a circular scoring game on a wooden surface.
A black tray on a wooden floor with sand arranged in a spiral pattern, decorated with colorful toy tools, scissors, and animal-shaped erasers.
Indoor room with stacked chairs, two banners from sustainability organizations, and several black trays with colorful math and educational toys on a patterned rug. There are two windows letting in natural light.
Lego cityscape on a gray baseplate, with various Lego figures and structures such as palm trees, buildings, and vehicles, on a patterned black and white rug in a dimly lit room with stained glass windows and brick walls.
Children playing with a Lego city set on the floor.
Two young girls with ponytails sitting on the floor, observing a sensory water play table filled with water, small toys, and plastic objects, with children’s legs and feet visible around the table.
A tabletop water scene with a yellow sandy area featuring plastic palm trees, and a blue water area with colorful paper fish and cotton ball clouds, resembling a beach and ocean setup.
A woman in a colorful costume made of plastic bottle caps and other recyclable materials standing beside a display of more recyclables on the ground, with a banner behind them reading 'North Sydney Living Futures Sustainability Festival.'
Two smiling people at an outdoor event, dressed in colorful and playful costumes. The woman is wearing a hat made of plastic cups with rainbow-colored streamers and a dress decorated with large plastic bottle caps. The man has a full beard, a hat wit
Colorful outdoor ring toss game with concentric rings made of colorful bottle caps and a pink game piece in the center, set up on grass at an outdoor event.
Outdoor scene at a park featuring a craft booth with colorful mermaid-themed decorations, several game boards with small tokens, and people walking by near a waterfront with boats and sailboats, under cloudy sky.
Children arranging colored bottle caps on a large hand-crafted map of the world made of paper and bottle caps.
Children and adults at a craft table outside, with colorful lanterns and bunting decorations, and a large dress made of colorful fabric and bottles displayed in the background.
Outdoor street market stall decorated with colorful lanterns, a whiteboard inviting children to sort and create art with rainbow and colorful designs, and a fabric dragon sculpture. In the background, a sign advertises Mosman Night Market on a Thursd
Children and adults participating in an outdoor educational event with activities like sorting colored caps and blocks, under sunny weather, beside a brick building with informational displays and a sign that says "Little Future Makers".
Toy set with plastic dolphins, ice cube molds, measuring spoons, a plastic ring, and floatation devices on a blue surface with a black tray, placed on a black and white patterned rug.
Two small toy cars with solar panels driving on a concrete ground, surrounded by children.
Group of children and an adult on a field trip observing tall banana and plantain plants on a sunny day.
Conference room with two large bean bag chairs filled with LEGO bricks, a LEGO baseplate, and LEGO plates on a checkered carpet. A presentation screen displays green plants, and a banner reads 'Future Makers.' Shelves and chairs are along the walls.
Colorful illustration featuring an octopus, parrot, monkey, and rainbow with the text 'future makers' and various paint splashes and flowers.

Upcoming experiences

  • Activations for the Future Now Expo

    • Thursday 5 March - South Village

    • Saturday 21 March – Community Sustainable Living Fair

    • Tuesday 24 March - South Village

    • Saturday 4 April - South Village

    • ☀️ Solar Car workshop | Parramatta: IDEAS Lounge | 9 April 2026 | 10:30-11:30 - booking link coming soon

    • 🦋 Greener Journeys workshop | WWPCL | 10 April 2026 | 10:30-11:30 - booking link coming soon

    • ✨ Future Shapers workshop | Dundas Library | 14 April 2026 | 10:30-11:30 - booking link coming soon

    • ⭕️ Trash To Treasure workshop | Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability | 8 April 2026 | 10:30-11:30 | 5-12 years - booking link coming soon

    • ☀️ Solar Car workshop | Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability | 15 April 2026 | 10:30-11:30 | 9-12 years - booking link coming soon

    • ⭕️ Trash To Treasure workshop | Castle Hill Library | 21 May 2026 | 3:30-4:30 | Little Eco Warrior program - booking link coming soon

Bookings for sessions across other Sydney LGAs will be released soon

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Love for our playful experiences

"Sally has pioneered innovative eco-play workshops, partnering with organisations like the Coal Loader Centre and Mosman Council to inspire young minds.

Sally's exceptional dedication, commitment to empowering her community, and creative approaches to environmental engagement make her a standout candidate for the Highly Commended Prize for the NSW Emerging Leader in Environmental Education Award."

- Environmental Education, New South Wales | 2023 Environmental Education Awards

“Great to see creative play and optimism combined to empower children.

Can see this approach being embraced by local council and potentially educators across Australia (and dare I say, the world!)

- Louise Laing, General Manager Marketing ANZ, Intrepid Travel | 2023 TMRRW Awards

Our playful sustainable learning approach

Play-based learning

We provide captivating learning through play, which ignites creativity, fosters problem-solving, and builds connections

Evidence-based solutions

We showcase the magic of climate solutions - informed by Project Drawdown - through hands-on activities and irresistible invitations to play

Activities aligned with strategic objectives

We provide interactive sustainability activities that strongly align with the strategic objectives of councils, including environmental and community objectives

All play items used in our experiences are made from nature, reloved, upcycled, recycled or - last resort - the most sustainably made item we can find.

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Your sustainability creatives ⬇️

Nice to meet you! We’re Sally & Helen.

Sally and Helen looking excitable

Sally’s an award-winning solutionist, storyteller and creative for sustainability - and the Founder of Be The Future, in Australia. She’s also guaranteed to be the shortest person in any room. 

Helen’s an award-winning educator, designer and author for sustainability - and the Founder of sister social enterprise, It Started With a Sloth, in the UK. She’s also a gold-level clumsy person who’s guaranteed to be the one who face-plants on entering that room.

We’ve both got kids in our lives: Sally has a son and Helen has a nephew. And we want them - and the children in your life - to have a thriving future on this amazing planet.

Together we have 5 degrees, credentials from the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability and Climate Change Coaches, and many awards.

Sally facilitates our Sydney based experiences. Plus we have a growing team of passionate, energetic, playful sustainability educators who deliver experiences with us.

Read more, including the bizarre story of how we met

Love us to bring playful eco experiences to your community?

Please submit an enquiry and we’ll get back to you within 24 hours.

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FAQs

(Almost) everything you need to know about our playful, interactive climate solutions experiences.

If you have further questions, please feel free to email sallygiblin@bethefuture.earth or call Sally on 0401440376.

  • Our experiences are truly different.

    They burst with awe-inspiring interactive storytelling, interactive floor projection games, hands-on invitations to play and opportunities to create solutions.

  • Due to the highly interactive nature of our experiences, we recommend a maximum of 20 children at a time.

    We usually facilitate sessions with one sustainability educator where a parent/carer must accompany children.

    We can also facilitate sessions drop off sessions with two sustainability educators (7-12 years only).

  • Our Little Future Makers program is for little learners 2-5 years.

    Our Growing Future Makers program is for growing learners 5-12 years.

    We tailor our experiences to suit the age ranges & abilities of the children in attendance.

  • We offer seven themes for councils:

    🌱 Wild At Heart (Nature based solutions)

    🍎 Plate Power (Food solutions)

    ⭕️ Trash To Treasure (Circularity solutions)

    🌊 Wave Makers (Ocean solutions)

    ☀️ Power Players (Renewable energy solutions)

    🦋 Green Journeys (Transport solutions)

    ✨ Future Shapers (Young changemakers)

    We also love a creative challenge and are happy to customise themes based on your needs.

  • Absolutely. We love a creative challenge! We can incorporate your theme or other elements of learning into a custom experience.

  • Generally our sessions last for 1 hour. We can also do half day sessions.

  • It’s incredibly important to us.

    We provide all necessary Working With Children Checks, public liability insurance and Risk Assessment in your Experience Confirmation Pack.

  • Generally, Sally, our Australian cofounder and a solutionist, storyteller and creative for sustainability, facilitates early learning centre incursions.

    Plus we have a growing team of passionate, energetic, playful sustainability educators.

    All facilitators have current WWCCs.

  • We love to have an initial chat to best understand your needs and outcomes.

    We will then provide a quote based on your needs.

    Our pricing incorporates preparing play concepts, sourcing / creating sustainable materials, sustainability educator(s), experience setup, experience delivery, experience packdown, sanitising and travel time.