The Good Fale (in short referred to as TGF)

This prize would help us take the Our Remainders project which is currently in its design phase, and has early adopters and stakeholders, and provide the funding and support needed to create the infrastructure to make this project a reality and take it to the next stage. In doing this, we would be able to multiply the impact of the funding and resourcing by setting up a project that can be self-sustaining and generate resources for communities for years to come. 
The support would enable us to stand up this project, scale our impact, and work on our media reach and platform as this is something we have a strong desire to do. 

The project is at a stage where it is critical to get investment to get it off the ground infrastructure wise as we have had 20k support and investment in developing it, but now are searching for the large scale.
This project and myself - Philippa Holmes, would benefit from being part of a dynamic community of change-makers. 

We have a vision of a food-secure country and food secure world, one in which the food ecosystem has a positive impact on people and planet. 

Our purpose with this project is to take the food waste that is currently over generated and repurpose this into other products, food and otherwise, that can both go back into the food system for communities at no cost and also be sold to have the profits go back into communities who are working to ensure all people have their food needs meet and that our planet is healthy enough to grow nutrient dense food. 

The Good Fale (fale is the Samoan word for house) is a multidisciplinary social impact house that weaves together design, research, technology, community development, cultural practice and social enterprise as modalities of change, innovation and impact. 

Our future goals are to significantly contribute to supporting community-led ways of impact and ensure communities are appropriately resources and supported to make impact. In the food space, our aim is to see a food system redesigned to meet all people's needs and have a positive impact on our planet. 

(The video provided above has Our Remainders in it, and is currently an early promo video from the 20k initial support we received to develop this idea) 

In New Zealand, 1.4 million tonnes of food is wasted annually, both from households, food production, supermarkets and hospitality; an estimated 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted each year globally. 

For NZ, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated food insecurity, and those most vulnerable to food insecurity are women, Maori and Pacific Island communities. 

Meanwhile we have alot of food waste, that a negative cost for people and planet. 

The Good Fale, and our Remainders wants to have a space where food waste can come in to be graded, that which can be used for other food will be and that which cannot will be turned into high end compost through the use of black solider flys. 

The food that can go to communities will, and the profits from products will go back into communities to support food security and food sovereignty.

We also want to share that learning with others around the globe so they can see what we are doing and learn, adpot and adapt from it where needed. 

We believe using the way we have set up Our Remainders to run is innovate in that it will grade food to make use of what is edible and use a tech approach to using black solider flys to take care of food waste. 

This whole project is about disrupting the system that isnt working and showing how with better design we can get better outcomes for all. 

This also innovate in that is community and impact led with a social enterprise lens. 

We currently have projects working across the food system and with 100+ stakeholders and plan to achieve our impact by working with our stakeholders and on the planned design we have made with the 20k planning investment funding we go. 

We believe we have the current steps in place and have a business plan that has been well thought out and tested.