Australian Social Enterprises

Social enterprises are businesses that trade with a primary purpose to improve communities, tackle social problems, give access to training & employment and/or help the environment.

In Australia, we talk about three types of social enterprises.

Many enterprises encompass 2 or more:

• those who achieve social impact by training and employing people who have experienced disadvantage

  
  

• those who provide a service or product to groups or communities who are otherwise excluded or underserved from mainstream business

  
  

• those who run an ethical business for profit, and the majority or all of the profits are invested into social causes

Queen Victoria Market is now home to The Purpose Precinct – a partnership of leading social enterprises Good Cycles and STREAT. Their showcasing a range of unique products and services from over 20 Victorian social enterprises such as Clothing the Gap and HoMie, with many more to come! The offer includes bicycle sales, services and repair operated by Good Cycles; and a curated and rotating range of goods all made, designed and/or recycled from sustainably and ethically sourced materials including homewares, preserves and other non-perishable food, kitchen garden and home growing supplies, clothing and accessories.

Social enterprise brands that are currently on sale in The Purpose Precinct include:

• Clothing The Gaps

• SisterWorks Inc.

• HoMie Clothing

• Mildura Chocolate Co.

• Streat

• Deadly Wears

• Kenshi Candles

• Wilfulkindness,

• Good Cycles

• Kakadu Plum Co.

• Buzz Earth

• UPmovement

• Free to Feed

• LoveLuvo

• Cultivating Community Melbourne

• Deadly Wears

• Green Collect

• Free to feed

• Lime & Lemon

• Rebuild

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