Choose Your Community Mascot Friend
Adopt a handcrafted wooden animal mascot for $50 each and nourish community care in Hobart. Pick the creature that speaks to you—Woodland Wombat, devil, Platypus, Curious Echidna or Tassie tiger.
Pick a handcrafted community mascot and help support food rescue, community meals, and mutual aid projects in southern Tasmania.
Each mascot is individually handcrafted and may feature a Tasmanian animal such as a wombat, Tasmanian devil, platypus, echidna, or tiger. Every piece is unique and made by local supporters.
Your purchase helps fund volunteer-led community activities, food rescue operations, and free community meals.
The Food Not Bombs Hobart Mascot Collection
Woodland Wombat
The Provider
Woodland Wombat believes nobody should face the night hungry.
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Strong, dependable, and practical, Wombat spends every day helping prepare food, pack supplies, and make sure people have what they need.
When Food Not Bombs volunteers prepare meals or deliver food hampers, Woodland Wombat is there in spirit, quietly helping carry the load.
Wombat reminds us that kindness isn’t complicated. Sometimes it simply means showing up with food when food is needed.
Riverstone Platypus
The Gatherer
Riverstone Platypus is always searching the riverbanks for hidden treasures. While others walk past, Platypus notices what has been overlooked and forgotten.
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Riverstone Platypus is always searching the riverbanks for hidden treasures. While others walk past, Platypus notices what has been overlooked and forgotten.
At Food Not Bombs Hobart, Riverstone Platypus reminds us that good food should never go to waste. Every rescued loaf of bread, every box of fruit, and every bag of vegetables is another opportunity to help someone in need.
Platypus teaches us that abundance already exists—we simply need to gather it and share it.
Mascot Message:
“There is enough for everyone when we rescue and share.”
The Curious Echinda
The Listener
Curious Echidna asks questions others forget to ask.
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Curious Echidna asks questions others forget to ask.
“How are you?”
“What do you need?”
“Would you like to talk?”
At Food Not Bombs Hobart, kindness begins with listening. Before solutions come conversations. Before assistance comes understanding.
Echidna reminds volunteers that every person has a story worth hearing and that dignity grows when people feel seen and respected.
Mascot Message:
“Every person matters. Every story matters.”
Wild heart Devil
The Courageous Helper
Wild Heart Devil never walks away from a challenge.
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When storms arrive, when things become difficult, or when someone feels forgotten, Devil steps forward.
Food Not Bombs Hobart is built on ordinary people doing courageous things—sharing food, helping strangers, and creating community where it is needed most.
Wild Heart Devil reminds us that courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage looks like turning up with a meal, a smile, or an offer to help.
Mascot Message:
“Small acts of courage create big acts of kindness.”
The Lost Tiger
The Finder of Hope
The Lost Tiger wandered for many years searching for a place to belong.
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Along the way, Tiger discovered something important: many people feel lost at different times in their lives.
Some have lost their home. Some have lost connection. Some have lost hope.
At Food Not Bombs Hobart, Tiger helps people find their way back to community. Around a shared meal, strangers become neighbours and neighbours become friends.
Tiger reminds us that nobody should have to walk alone.
“Hope grows when people gather together.”
Collection Story
Together these five mascots tell the Food Not Bombs Hobart story:
- Riverstone Platypus gathers food.
- Woodland Wombat provides nourishment.
- Curious Echidna listens.
- Wild Heart Devil acts with courage.
- The Lost Tiger helps people find hope and belonging.
Each hand-carved mascot celebrates a different part of the journey from rescued food to stronger community—one act of kindness at a time. ❤️🍎🌱
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