Social Enterprise Marketplace

Welcome to our Social Enterprise Market Place

If you are looking for a gift or service with a purpose, we’ve created a marketplace so that you can #shopsocialenterprise all year round. We have worked with these businesses and some are Indigenous owned. By shopping with them, not only are you supporting a small business, but you are helping to achieve social and environmental impact.

 

Clothing & Accessories

Yevu Clothing

YEVU Clothing is a social enterprise clothing brand designed and manufactured in Ghana.

Among Equals

Among Equals is a Not-For-Profit that exists to bring the timeless beauty of Bilum to the global fashion market.

Liandra Swim

Liandra Swim fuses Aboriginal Australian Culture with on-trend premium designer swimwear.

HoMie

HoMie supports young people affected by homelessness or hardship to equip them with skills, confidence and experiences to be more work-ready and better prepared for their future. When you shop with HoMie, you’re helping to support young people affected by homelessness or hardship.

Bilum & Bilas

Contemporary adornment traditionally handcrafted by Papua New Guinean female artisans to support livelihoods.

Heart On My Sleeve

Comfortable clothing for a cause. When you wear this apparel you’ll find that people ask you what it means. By wearing a piece of HOMS clothing, it opens the door to a conversation which may lead to an authentic sharing of experiences. At the very least, you’ve positioned yourself as someone who values mental health, and perhaps in the future they may remember that when they need someone to lean on.

Food

Humble Sampler

FOR FOOD LOVERS
Delicious treats from small-scale food makers. each Humble Sampler food hamper features food by small-batch artisans including at least one incredible First Nations owned business in each hamper, talented women-owned businesses, and food from other people who might be traditionally underrepresented in the food industry.

Chocolate on Purpose

Fiona, a proud Wiradjuri woman, is the founder & CEO of Chocolate On Purpose. She is an artisan chocolatier, handcrafting gourmet, couverture chocolate with Australian native botanicals to create her Bushfood Chocolate range.

STREAT

Great for catering for special occasions but also hampers to gift to others.

Bindam Mie

Wild harvested superfoods and bush remedies of the Kimberley.

Game Enough?

Game Enough? is a majority owned Indigenous business established in 2016 by Carol Vale and Greg Mckenzie, to promote access to the unique tastes of Australian game meats and native plant based foods.

Wellbeing and Cosmetics

Mandanga

Mandanga is a 100% Indigenous owned business that makes quality skin care products from Australian native plants and natural plant based products.

Kakadu Tiny Tots

Kakadu Tiny Tots is a wholly Australian owned company that creates authentic aboriginal clothing, accessories and artwork.

Big Little Brush

Australian owned, BLB sell beautiful bamboo toothbrushes and use profits to help fund primary health programs in remote Indigenous Communities in Australia.

Home & Garden

Miimi + Jiinda

Miiimi & Jiinda is an Australian Art business, founded by Aboriginal mother and daughter, Lauren Jarrett and Melissa Greenwood.

Delvene Cockatoo-Collins Designs

Quandamooka Artist and Studio, on Minjerribah – North Stradbroke Island.
Original Artworks, handprinted homewares, sculptures and ceramics.

Tradara

Tradara Products combining 60,000 years of Australian Aboriginal Culture into modern pieces, which showcases ancient stories and dreamings that have been passed down through generations. Each piece is uniquely designed by Tradara Briscoe, who has mastered the art of central desert art.

Nagula Jarndu

Is a not for profit aboriginal women’s art centre in Broome, Australia with a focus on producing contemporary and unique textile lengths and products.

Rosie Ware Designs

Rosie is a self-taught, award winning textile artist designer and printer based on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait.

Farmwall

Farmwall are creating a healthy, educated and connected community of Australians through meaningful interactions with food that also benefit the environment. Become your own urban farmer or grow your own micro-greens.

Songbird Collection

Unique gifts inspired by our beautiful birds
• Working with global artisans
• Supporting BirdLife conservation

For Dignity

Beautiful gifts, homewares and more that are sourced direct from the makers.

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