Australian Social Enterprises

ASPIRE provides a transformative digital marketplace that enables businesses to exchange surplus materials, driving significant resource reduction and promoting a sustainable circular economy. Our core social mission is to empower organisations to embrace environmentally responsible practices, thus fostering a greener future and supporting the UN's SDGs Products and services include Business & Administrative Services, Engineer, Research, Tech services, Waste Management & Landfill. Primary beneficiaries include Environmental Sustainability. Social Traders status: Certified. Membership: Connections Membership.

ASRC Catering is a social enterprise that provides catering services to events in Melbourne, with a mission to create pathways to meaningful employment for people seeking asylum. The organisation aims to empower individuals to gain financial autonomy, social inclusion, and rebuild their lives. By delivering a global food experience, ASRC Catering supports the social and economic integration of new migrants and refugee communities.

We are a social enterprise of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) that exists to create employment pathways for people seeking asylum. Through providing quality domestic and commercial cleaning services we create opportunities for employment and training. These opportunities help people seeking asylum build the skills and experience they need to pursue sustainable employment in the Australian workforce. Products and services include Building Trade, Repairs & Maintenance, Cleaning Services & Equipment & Supplies. Primary beneficiaries include New Migrants & Refugee Communities. Social Traders status: Certified. Membership: Connections Membership.

Assembled Threads is a Melbourne-based social enterprise established in 2021 that provides training and employment in garment manufacturing for disadvantaged groups, including refugees, asylum seekers, and migrant women. They produce sustainable garments and PPE locally using recycled materials while offering textile industry apprenticeship training in partnership with Holmesglen.

We provide employment opportunities to refugees. We specialize in Ground Maintenance and Landscaping for commercial and residential properties. Other services include streetscapes, landscape designs, planting, retaining walls, and paving. We also create a unique employment opportunity for mothers who have school-age children. They can work during school hours and earn income to support their family financially. Products and services include Horticulture & arboriculture. Primary beneficiaries include New Migrants & Refugee Communities. Social Traders status: Certified. Membership: Connections Membership.

Founded in 2015, Austep is a B Corp certified Social Enterprise using business as a tool to positively impact people, profit, places and planet. We design and install energy efficiency upgrades in commercial buildings, to reduce energy costs and carbon emissions, while donating 50% of profits to charity. Products and services include Building Trade, Repairs & Maintenance. Primary beneficiaries include A charitable or not for profit organisation. Social Traders status: Certified. Membership: Connections Membership.

Australian Centre for Rural Entrepreneurship (ACRE) is a for-purpose social enterprise established in 2013 in Victoria that supports rural communities by building entrepreneurial capability and capacity. ACRE helps young people and emerging entrepreneurs develop skills to create opportunities that rejuvenate rural Australia through training, workshops, and accelerator programs.

Our vision is to address inequalities in oral health, and reduce the barriers to enable professional and high quality oral health care and education for all through partners and sponsorships, mobile dental clinics, fixed clinics and policy and advocacy. Products and services include Healthcare Services. Primary beneficiaries include Other disadvantaged people. Social Traders status: Certified. Membership: Connections Membership.

The Australian Social Value Bank (ASVB) is the first online tool of its kind, allowing you to translate the value of your social impact into dollars. Our Value Calculator performs a three-step Cost Benefit Analysis that aligns to government best-practice guidelines used across the OECD. The ASVB allows you to: understand, compare, aggregate, communicate and compete on, the social value you create. Products and services include Business & Administrative Services, Community & Social Services, Training & Education Services. Primary beneficiaries include A charitable or not for profit organisation. Social Traders status: Certified. Membership: Connections Membership.

Australian Spatial Analytics (ASA) is a social enterprise that delivers professional Geospatial and Digital Engineering data services. Its primary social mission is to create meaningful careers for young neurodivergent adults, addressing high unemployment rates within this community and leveraging their unique talents to meet Australia's STEM skill shortages.

Auticon Pty Ltd is a social enterprise that provides high-quality data services, software development, quality assurance testing, and penetration testing. They achieve social impact by creating neurodiverse workplaces, leveraging the unique strengths of autistic employees in analytical, systemizing, and innovative thinking.

Avenue is an Australian social enterprise that offers day program alternatives for people with disability, enabling them to engage in meaningful work through various microbusinesses and participate in community activities. It aims to foster an inclusive economy by providing supported employment, skill development, and social engagement, empowering participants to make a purposeful contribution and generate income.

The team in Wood Worx manufacture a variety of made to order pine & hardwood timber products for businesses, farmers, builders and residents. We specialise in pegs and stakes, pallets and crates, produce bins as well as made to order products. From ripping pine flitches to pointing and painting pegs, there is a task for all capabilities in this workshop. Products and services include Building products & materials, Community & Social Services, Furniture & Furnishings. Primary beneficiaries include People with disabilities. Social Traders status: Certified. Membership: Connections Membership.

B & M Essential Cleaning is a Victorian social enterprise dedicated to helping vulnerable members of the community, particularly new migrants and refugees, secure stable and reliable employment. Through their social purpose initiative, they provide cleaning services, building trade work, repairs and maintenance, as well as equipment and supplies. Their certified Social Traders status demonstrates their commitment to creating meaningful social impact through sustainable business practices.

B-Alternative is a Victorian social enterprise that provides low bono environmental consultancy, waste reduction strategies, and reuse systems to businesses, events, and communities. They actively divert waste from landfill through reusable dish services, waste education programs, and regeneration initiatives that restore natural ecosystems, particularly marine environments.

Baby First Aid Qld is North Queensland's first permanent social enterprise dedicated to providing parents and caregivers with essential first aid knowledge and skills to care for infants and children. Through certified courses covering emergencies like choking, CPR, and poisoning, they empower families with the confidence to respond effectively when every second counts.

Bacchus Marsh Community Enterprises Limited is the holder of the franchise for Community Bank Bacchus Marsh (Bendigo Bank). Our Enterprise is a community owned company and operates on a profit for purpose model, which means revenue generated by customers banking such as loans and deposits are reinvested back to the local community. Primary beneficiaries include A particular geographic community. Social Traders status: Certified. Membership: Connections Membership.

McCallum/BRI is a social trader contributing to the community by providing employment and support to people with a disability and contributing positively to improving the environment. We provide real jobs to real people in a commercial environment whilst at the same time supporting people with a disability.Employment is provided within one of the following divisions Landscaping services Recycling services Packaging services Event support Manufacturing services Home maintenance services Products and services include Business & Administrative Services, Horticulture & arboriculture, Waste Management & Landfill. Primary beneficiaries include People with disabilities. Social Traders status: Certified. Membership: Connections Membership.