Here, at the Historical Toy Society of Australia, we aim to do one thing.
Our core mission is to preserve toy history through various means and tell history as it is, not what revisionists say it is.
However, as a grassroots org that's only just starting we can't do everything we want to do.
We will do what we can at the moment; which is
- Focus on getting our social media up to further our reach.
- Search for lost physical media, search online for online resources and connect with community members who know history.
- Begin to preserve physical media, archiving online media and start organising internal storage.
- Continuously update the website with the latest discoveries and keep designing.
Our closer future plans
We do plan, in the future doing:
- Accepting donations of flawed and fixable toys and merch from people and charity shops to divert from landfill.
- Restoring toys and toy related items, either to sell and raise funds for the society or redonate to second hand shops.
- Accept comissions to restore items and allow items to be reused for longer.
- Start getting volunteers to help with every aspect of the society and help those who need community get connection.
- Commission a First Nations artist to design aspects of the website, like background, aesthetic guide, etc.
- Commission someone who is a minority website deisgner to help with development of the website.
We do have many more plans for the society but we can't get ahead of ourselves as we already have a lot of work to do.
But here's a sneak peak
- Getting a 3D printer to print missing parts and to do repairs.
- Start a replacement parts library.
- Start gathering those small bits likely to be thrown out, like shoes, earrings and catalouge them, listing them for sale or free.