Australian Social Enterprises

We manufacture vegan cakes and employ solely people who face barriers to employment, primarily survivors of domestic violence. We donate 3% of profits to fight hunger and we finance women-led small business ideas in emerging economies.

We are Banking that benefits the communities of greater Fremantle. By helping our customers and partners succeed we feed into the development and sustainability of the Fremantle community enabling our shareholders, our local community and our business to share in the prosperity. We sponsor organisations that provide opportunities to support youth, the arts and womens participation in sport.

Dress for success exists to empower Western Australian women from all backgrounds to achieve economic independence. Unemployed and underemployed women are supported to achieve economic independence by providing no-fee programs, development tools and professional attire to thrive in work and in life. Dress for Less sales are volunteer-powered, sustainable fashion sales, where every dollar raised empowers vulnerable Western Australian women.

Almost 140 years ago, GFS Perth was founded to safeguard working-class country girls who had left their homes to seek work in the city. Today, GFS continues this heritage by creating welcoming spaces that enable friendship and inspires people to thrive, in a variety of ways including through creation care.

Little Go Getters offers enterprising behaviour-focused resources to young people throughout Australia. That includes books, activity books, and school and extra-curricular programming to help youth see themselves as enterprising and get into action to develop enterprise self-efficacy. These resources are being developed into a toolkit that collaborators can localise and contextualise for their communities. This localisation is to help youth in those communities see themselves as being enterprising and relate to the content. This collaboration is in the model of developing income-producing projects for the collaborator to help diversify their organisation s revenue streams, or as their own small business.

Loop is a WA Social Enterprise Transforming Textiles and Empowering Communities. We provide businesses with innovative and circular solutions to redundant textiles, whilst creating meaningful work opportunities for people experiencing vulnerability in our community.

Mettle is a non-profit social enterprise that employs, trains and financially empowers those experiencing homelessness as a result of domestic & family violence. 100% of profits go towards creating the safe futures that victim-survivors around the nation deserve through safe paid work, scholarships, crisis funds, childcare subsidies and survivor designed support programs.

We sell independent comprehensive financial education. Master money and reclaim your time with our independent, comprehensive financial education for adults and families. Our mantra is simple: financial independence (FI) makes you time rich (TR). Being time rich means choosing how you spend the seconds, minutes, hours and days that make up your life. You get to financial independence through mastering money: saving, buying assets and avoiding bad debt. It’s never too late – or too early – to take control of your financial future. We believe financial independence is achievable for anyone with an income and a long enough timeline.

Providing a safe space to reflect on the mother-infant relationship with no judgement or competition

Only the Human (OTH) exists because we believe that everybody has a need to connect, express their creativity and contribute to their culture. We do this through comedy and play because we know laughter builds strong bonds between people – and everything we do depends on strong relationships. Only the Human believes that good improv comedy is mostly about being a good person. We trust one another, listen closely, and play recklessly to become the best version of ourselves on and off stage. Improv classes aren’t just for funny people, they re for people. Improv is about relationships, trust, and vulnerability and we find the funny in the every day, by being ourselves. Improv skills are life skills. We help people collaborate better, speak more confidently, and get out of their comfort zone. Our improv classes offer personal skills, professional skills, and funny skills all wrapped up in one.

rAIse IT right™ is led by speaker, author and ethical AI strategist Gry Stene. With over 35 years in technology, digital transformation and product innovation, Gry partners with organisations to lead confidently in the age of AI by placing human-first leadership and inclusion at the centre of innovation. Through high-impact keynotes, practical AI activation workshops, inclusive leadership programs and strategic advisory to technology and product teams, she helps organisations build psychological safety, strengthen intersectional decision-making and develop responsible AI capability. As a neurospicy, migrant woman in tech, Gry brings lived experience of navigating difference in complex systems - translating inclusion into tangible innovation and measurable impact. She helps organisations unleash human potential while ensuring they raise their AI - and their leadership - right.

Reach Her Inc exist to support and empower women from diverse backgrounds to improve their confidence, mental and physical wellbeing and help create a sense of belonging by helping them gain an entry into employment from education and training. We provide a range of our holistic employment pathway programs to improve the mental and physical wellbeing of our women, upskill them through our pre-employment workshops & business school so that they can become financially independent.

Sister Project s mission is to support and empower at risk migrant women who are experiencing poverty, sickness, misfortune, disability or any form of distress (including financial, relationship, family, employment, housing, language/cultural barriers, social). We support migrant women to start their own micro enterprises, selling artisan products, catering, cleaning, skills workshops, tailoring and media production. We are proud to have supported 500+ women supported since 2019, with 40+ women earning income since 2019. We provide: 1. Training for getting jobs and for setting up small businesses 2. Opportunities for the women run micro-enterprises to find a market to sell their service or product 3. Mentoring and coaching 4. Up-cycled donated goods and turn into sellable items 5. Extra wrap-around supports that assist migrant women to earn or create money for themselves 6. A Community Hub with opportunities for individuals, organisations and businesses to connect and collaborate and create community with each other 7. Language learning designed especially for real-life as a woman, business owner and /or employee 8. Connection and a sense of belonging for migrant and refugee women

Est in 2010, MK Eco by Starwin is a collective of women in enterprise with a dream to grow the Made with Kindness Economy. Providing career pathways for young Indigenous female leaders in the Geraldton area and beyond. Starwin offers: Cultural Tourism Event Servicing Graphic Art Community Development Corporate Gifting Eco Enterprise Youth Leadership