Social Traders

🌟 Measure the impact of your spend with our Social Spend Report! 🌟 Since 2020, we've helped over 300 members track their impact with our Social Spend Reports—and now, it’s your turn! ✅ Quantify your positive impact: Easily identify your spend with certified social enterprises and see how you're driving change for your community and the planet. ✅ Discover opportunities: Benchmark against your industry peers and explore new social procurement categories. ✅ Track trends: Monitor your organisation's growth in supporting social enterprises over time. 💡 Want a sample report? Download one today! https://loom.ly/mEVBS6M And while you're at it, take our FREE assessment to see if you're spending with certified social enterprises. #Business4Good #procurement #socialenterprise

🎄Gift a bike- make a difference! 🚲 Looking for the perfect Christmas gift? Visit Brainwave Bikes at Northland Shopping Centre today and tomorrow! ✨ All proceeds fund bike donations for families in need and support Brainwave Australia, the only national charity helping over 1,100 families with children facing brain illnesses and injuries. Huge thanks to Nicole Quinlan Wahlin from Vicinity Centres for supporting this pop-up! #Business4Good

We would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and happy holidays! 🎄 Thank you to our members, supporters and partners for an incredible year; and to all the business for good trailblazers making the world a better place. ⭐ Our team will be resting from Monday, 23 January 2024 and we'll be back reenergised on Monday, 6 January 2025. Have a wonderful break and here's to an even better year ahead where business for good, is business as usual. 🚀

🤝 Supporting social enterprise is what we do. And one of the ways we do this, is practising social procurement. To end the year, we're proud to share our FY24 social procurement impact outcomes. Take a look at the short video for the highlights. 💡 Thinking of getting a Social Spend Report for your organisation in 2025? Get a sample report today. See how you can measure and report on your spend that contributes to positive outcomes for people and planet. ➡️ https://loom.ly/mEVBS6M

Say hello to certified social enterprise Empathy First | Empathy Training & Mentoring! Empathy First helps individuals and organisations embrace empathy- offering tailored programs designed to: 🌟 Boost wellbeing 🌟 Strengthen relationships 🌟 Improve business outcomes like engagement and retention. Thinking about certification? ✅ Be recognised: Strengthen your position as a genuine social enterprise with the highest certification standard ✅ Connect & grow: Join events and training to network with like-minded businesses and potential partners. ✅ Boost visibility: Get listed in Australia’s largest directory of certified social enterprises. ✅ Unlock funding: Increase your chances of winning grants from governments and philanthropists. ✅ Access support: Free resources and usage of volunteering platforms like SEEK Volunteer and Communiteer. Learn more- https://loom.ly/DHgjlOA #Business4Good

⭐ Shoutout to Green Connect Illawarra, a certified social enterprise based in NSW for being featured on WIN News! 📺 Last month, Robert Servine - General Manager at Green Connect, was interviewed for the work they're doing in creating social impact. Tara Anderson, CEO Social Traders also comments on the wonderful work they're doing in this piece.📍 https://loom.ly/q1j_fcs Green Connect supports refugees to be job-ready and safe with ethical labour hire. They are also winners of the Social Traders 2024 Social Procurement Partnership of the Year Award with Mirvac 🙌

📣 We've been supporting the Queensland Government to shape and deliver their social procurement efforts. And the results are in! It's fantastic to see the Queensland Government has spent $136.7 million with Social Traders certified social enterprise over the past five years. 🎉 This includes $21.5 million with 70 Social Traders certified social enterprise in the past financial year (FY24), resulting in: 💼 120,000 hours of employment for people facing barriers to work (equivalent to 78.8 full time jobs) ⭐ 5,000 hours of training and 56 pathway outcomes to those facing barriers to work ♻️ 6 tonnes of waste being diverted from landfill 💰 over $20,000 being donated to beneficiary groups, including those supporting environmental sustainability, families and children, and marginalised women. We look forward to helping more government agencies shape their economic and social policies, leveraging certified social enterprise to unlock public value in 2025 and beyond!🤝

🎉 We’re excited to announce Kylie Flament, CEO at Social Enterprise Council of NSW & ACT (SECNA) has joined our certification advisory group. Kylie brings a wealth of knowledge and experience as a respected leader in the social enterprise sector. She has a background in managing large teams and projects in the corporate, government and not-for-profit sectors. She managed the cardiac department at both children’s hospitals in Sydney before becoming the CEO of Green Connect, a social enterprise, for five years. Kylie will be joining our existing certification advisory group members: Keith Rovers, Partner - MinterEllison, Michael de Soyza, Director at Ernst & Young and Nicola Nation, CEO at Akina. 👏 We would like to extend a very warm welcome to Kylie and we look forward to continue working with the advisory group as they provide independent perspectives and general advice on Social Traders certification, to ensure it continues to meet the needs of social enterprises as the sector evolves.

💡 2024 has been a year of progress and collaboration. Reflecting on the year, Tara Anderson, CEO Social Traders said "Together, we’ve increased the visibility of social enterprise, grown social procurement spending and delivered new projects that are shaping a more inclusive and sustainable Australia." 🔗 Read Tara's final message for this year and find out what's to come in 2025: https://loom.ly/qZJvaH4 🗓️ Our team will be taking a well-deserved break starting Monday, 23 December 2024 and returning Monday, 6 January 2025. We hope you have a safe and wonderful holiday season ahead.

⭐ We're excited to announce, we'll be hosting Convene in 2025! Pre-registrations are now open. Visit our website to register your interest and view the highlights video: https://loom.ly/LQZBwb4 🚀 Convene 2024 brought together 300+ people from business and government leaders to social entrepreneurs and sector partners. With 40+ speakers, attendees walked away with insights and new connections made. All working towards the same goal - collaborating to make social procurement and social enterprise, business as usual. Thank you to Westpac Group, and those that joined and supported us this year. We look forward to seeing you next year!