Feb 5, 2024 | Clothing and personal accessories, Education and Training, Employment, Furniture and home goods, Manufacturing
Enterprise name SisterWorks
What’s the trading activity SisterWorks has a shop and cafe, a catering service, do market stalls, corporate workshops, and manufacturing.
Our shop and cafe provides entrepreneurship and employment opportunities to migrant, refugee and asylum seeker women – our Sisters. While also giving people an ethical community space where everyone can enjoy a tasty coffee, grab a bite to eat or purchase quality homemade and locally designed products. Our product range includes jewellery, body care, bags, homewares, candles, toys, newborn products, hampers and preserves. Visit us in Richmond or online.
Read more about our wide variety of trading activities here.
What’s the social or environmental cause your enterprise addresses? Since 2013 we have helped over 2500 women from 105 countries. We offer a range of programs, entrepreneurship and employment opportunities that help women to develop their skills, confidence, and connections. We also provide support with finding employment, starting their own businesses, and navigating the Australian system. We believe that when women are empowered, they can make a positive difference in their own lives and in the lives of their families and communities.
Aug 23, 2021 | Clothing and personal accessories
Enterprise name Deadly Wears
What’s the trading activity We are an Aboriginal Owned Business that sells a range of clothing and accessory items with a focus on Aboriginal Culture and Country.
10% of the profit from every item sold through our online shop in donated to plant trees. In every way we intend to support and Care for Country. We are a small business with a big dream. We encourage everyone to wear their ethics on their sleeves.
What’s the social or environmental cause your enterprise addresses?
We want all to be proud to wear and understand the diversity of First Nation peoples Culture. We want our Deadly Shoppers to wear their pride on their sleeves for this Culture. We are an Ally Friendly business that highlights Blak Excellence. All that we do, we try to ensure we are protecting the environment, by donations and supporting environmental friendly products.
What is your hope for the future?
Our hope is that ALL will understand and respect the diversity that is the culture of First Nations People. That everyone will own something from a Blak Owned business, show their respect to those business and continue to support them to break the cycle that has previously brought them down.
Aug 20, 2021 | Clothing and personal accessories
Enterprise name Into Carry
What’s the trading activity We source quality trash and handcraft it into carry wear. We’ve developed a textile manufacturing process that allows a wide variety of materials to be upcycled into function bags for modern commuters. Each design decision is made with longevity at its core. Longevity is important in material terms, but also in functional terms. In our fast-paced lifestyle, products are thrown out because they’re outdated, not because they’re broken. So we spend a lot of time making sure our products functions are resilient to lifestyle changes with modular attachments, customisation and personalisation.
We position our products to appeal to sustainability nuts (like ourselves), but more importantly, we position them to appeal to those less active around sustainability. By engaging, educating and inspiring more of the community to think about sustainability we can normalise things like repurposing materials and prove you don’t need to sacrifice to live sustainably. It is much more achievable than it seems, when done in the right way.
What is your hope for the future?
Coming from an industrial design background, we realised there is way too much ‘stuff’ in the world. So we set out to change the broken relationships with material resources. We’re driven to find and develop new innovative ways to live sustainably and work towards circular manufacturing systems. The first step in this journey is Into Carry, where we turn trash into carry bags. We have plans in place to enter the food and packaging industry and rustle some feathers there too.
How are you going with the work?
We are living in an exciting time for sustainability. Yes, we have some terrible habits and systems in place that are going to take decades to amend, but we are also seeing a huge increase in consumer driven demand for sustainable products and processes. Being a sustainable business, this makes life so much easier as there are more and more sustainable options, from home-compostable mailers to off the shelf 100% post-consumer recycled parts. It is becoming easier and easier to be a sustainable business and the more people we can get involved, the quicker it will progress. Exciting times indeed.
https://intocarry.co/
Jun 26, 2021 | Clothing and personal accessories
Enterprise name Fabric of Humanity
What’s the trading activity We invite you on an uplifting human journey intricately woven into our 100% natural, compostable, hypoallergenic Khadi and handloom cotton and natural dyes. We exist to revive traditional textile wisdom and culture because for thousands of years naturally dyed, hand-loomed textiles such as ours have provided therapeutic properties for humanity and underpinned myth, ritual and life-affirming celebrations around the world. We believe by revisiting these ancient ways we can positively effect social change.
What’s the social or environmental cause your enterprise addresses?
We are Fabric of Humanity, a social enterprise creating sustainable employment and positive impact with Natural Dyes and Textiles. We pledge to tread lightly on the planet while upholding a strong moral fibre. We foster tight knit and sustainable artisan communities by offering beautiful, contemporary future-heirlooms that have an ethical, social and environmental ethos embedded in every thread. We design and make only premium products that are ethically sourced, biodegradable, non-toxic, zero waste to be treasured and stand the test of time. The care and feeling invested by our artisans and producers transmits magic into the luxurious hand feel of our products and creates the brilliant spectrum in our natural dye collection. When you support Fabric of Humanity you are not just a customer. You become a custodian and take a vital place within our story.
What is your hope for the future?
Answer Our goal is that our operations educate and employ artisans and producers in rural Indian communities providing them with secure, safe and sustainable employment. Our makers are paramount to us. We aim to secure a high-quality livelihood for them by reviving ancient textile traditions alongside the pursuit of future innovation. We also hope to make a positive impact on the textiles industry both in Australia and globally, by suppling premium, natural products that do not harm the environment, are hypo-allergenic, non-toxic and return to the earth.
Dec 12, 2020 | Clothing and personal accessories, Various products
What is your trading activity?
LoveLuvo is a retail social enterprise based in Seddon, Victoria. We stock eco-friendly, locally-sourced and fair trade home and body products. We also supply wholesale products and unique gift box solutions for all types of customers
Our store provides refill stations for customers to bring in used bottles and refill body care and home cleaning items which greatly helps reduce waste and encourage recycling.
Our commitment to the community stems from LoveLuvo’s central ethos: The good you do comes back to you.
What’s the social or environmental cause your enterprise addresses?
LoveLuvo was created by WCIG in 2011 to provide sustainable, paid employment opportunities for people who experience barriers to finding a job, giving people an opportunity to build skills and confidence in a supportive work environment.
We endeavour to make sure we are constantly growing and developing our product offerings. From finding local solutions to suppliers to ensuring our own products meet the highest standards.
For more information, visit: www.loveluvo.com.au/impact
What is your hope for the future?
We hope to grow our store in the Western Suburbs beyond it’s geographic location by providing LoveLuvo products throughout Australia.
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