The Lead Education and Abatement Design Group Incorporated aims to eliminate

lead poisoning globally and to ensure that the ecosystem is protected from lead in all its uses.

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President's Report FY2025 – presented to AGM 22/10/2025

Week of Action 19th -25th October 2025 (as declared by the World Health Organization in 2013, in

response to a 2010 proposal from Elizabeth O’Brien of The LEAD Group Inc, then known as The Lead

Education and Abatement Design Group Incorporated).

President’s Report by Michelle Calvert-Kilburn

For this, our 35th year of operation, The LEAD Group not-for-profit charity has continued to make a

significant impact across local communities in Australia, especially in the lives of LEAD Group Kit

purchasers who benefit greatly from being advised by us to manage any lead contamination found in

their environment. Through our online work with World Health Organization (WHO) and the United

Nations (UN) and numerous NGOs worldwide, we have contributed to making the lives of many millions

on as volunteers – both on LADP and also providing

invaluable admin assistance as well – Farrah with Kits and Lizzie with Typing and Bookkeeping - for 5

days a fortnight and Clerk’s Award recipients for part of a 6th day per fortnight, throughout FY2025.

In August 2024, LEAD Group Secretary Eric Ritter, founder of Detect Lead Kits and Fluorospec lead test

kits, began very kindly donating the wages of two new staff in the Philippines: Paul Jacobe, now

Elizabeth’s Executive Assistant and Paul’s Assistant Marie Jean Villarosa. Paul and Marie do lots of

Library data entry as well as all our social media reels-making and posting. When we just count digital

articles being added to our library, when LADP started on 24/07/2020, the first new library article

entered in the lead database by the first LADP Team member, was the 19,575th article so became Library

Throughout the five full financial years 2021-2025 that the Lead Archives Digitisation Project (LADP) has

been running, a total of 9,220 new library items have been added to The LEAD Group’s library database,

noting who published it, when, the URL if online and who the article came from.

We don’t just collect articles in a fully searchable database though, most importantly, we also distribute

them to the public. We are somewhat behind in data entry of emails but from the one-third of sent

emails and posted items that have been entered in our CallForm for FY25, we have disseminated 694

library articles to the people who most needed them, amidst useful referrals. When a subject keeps

coming up in enquiries, Elizabeth creates and regularly updates emailable Info Packs which can have

dozens of library articles in referrals in them. Of the 123,167 CallForms that have been data-entered for

Alternative Treatments for Lead Poisoning, including EDTA Oral Chelation Citizen Science Trial”.

And of course dozens of new library articles are either created, reprinted or hyperlinked / referenced

when we create each issue of LEAD Action News (see below). For instance, 34 new articles were added

to the library during the creation of the 16 articles in LEAD Action News vol 23 no 1.

LEAD Group members, other NGOs, researchers and students are all welcome to “TeamViewer” - to

enter into our system to search and research in the Library Database to see the fruits of our labour and

access more articles about lead than have ever been amassed together anywhere else on the planet!

Just ask Elizabeth for the TeamViewer login details. And now that we have migrated to the Cloud, every

Areas, at http://192.168.16.4/lead/library.aspx which is accessible via Searchable Library Database of

the Global Lead Advice & Support Service (GLASS)

welcome!

In this, our 35th year of operation, we again provided thousands of Australian enquirers and overseas

lead contamination of the environment. Tim Pye in the United Kingdom has made even more amazing

leaps forward with his brilliant idea - the Lead Exposure and Poisoning Prevention (LEAPP) Alliance!

wonderful volunteer web-administrator Jimmy Yang with the help

this year of Paul Jacobe - including numerous references to our lead

safety art competition: www.volcanoartprize.com - the Volcano Art Prize (VAP) which utilised the $480

“property” or “in-kind” donation from the VAP sponsor pictureproducts, for prizes, along with $600 in

cash prizes from LEAD Group Kit sales.

The 87th, 88th and 89th issues of LEAD Action News can be found by clicking on the following links at

https://www.leadsafeworld.com/media-page/ :

LANv23n1-Contents

1. World's First Circular Economy for Lead

2. Enter Volcano Art Prize 2025 by 28th July 2025

3. Petition to Stop a New Lead Mine Opening in NSW

4. Stop Bowdens Toxic Lead Mine (Petition)

5. Landline Bega's bid to become a circular economy to reduce waste

6. Bega Valley Lead Safe Circular Economy Proposal

7. Landline - Mineral Sands by Gillian Aeria 17 Nov 2024

8. Have We Surrendered To Collapse TRANSCRIPT

9. BFPCA Media Release - Lead-Based AvGas Threatens Children’s Health

16. Unleaded Kids Asks Feds to Push Harder for Tighter Int’l Lead Standards for Spices

LANv22n4-Contents

1. LANv22n4 Editorial

2. Enter Volcano Art Prize 2025 by 28th July 2025

3. The White House Biden Harris Announces New Actions to Address Toxic Lead Exposure

4. Critical minerals - New Resources to help power the future

5. Protecting Kids from Lead - 10 Reasons to be Thankful

6. CDC’s LEPAC Calls for Groundbreaking Action to Protect Adults from Lead

13. Specht et al articles re bone lead pXRF in LEAD Group Library

14. UK LEAPP Alliance Update, Dec 2024

15. Horrendous lead exposure from playing UK Christmas game Toad in the Hole

16. Clinical and population strategies to protect children from lead

17. UN PCFV Lead Campaign page as at 8th March 2021

18. Circular Economy for Lead Petition to the Australian House of Representatives

19. Roger Green 30 Dec 1955 - 4 Dec 2024 OBITUARY

20. In memory of Roger Green - Vince Mahon

21. Battle for the Franklin by Roger Green (Introduction)

22. Deni Greene 7 Oct 1939 - 2 Jun 2012 MEMORIES

6. Article 06 US FAA Blocks Efforts to Stop Lead Poisoning

12. Article 12 Blum SMO Avgas, and Pediatric Health Consequences 20210904

If all members of The LEAD Group would continue to promote our Model National Lead Safety Policy