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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.

Liandra Swim

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

Among Equals

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

Bilum & Bilas

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

Food

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.

STREAT

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

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.

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

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