What good business looks like

South Australian social enterprises and representatives from across Social Traders, the South Australian Social Enterprise Council and Think Enough will kick off your networking session with a short introduction of their wonderful businesses and the models they use to create positive social and/or environmental impact. Learn how your everyday purchases as a consumer, business or government agency have the power to drive positive change for our planet and society. You’re invited to mingle, look at their offerings and speak directly to the social enterprises, with food and beverages available to all.

 
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This activation is powered by Social Traders

Social Traders is the trailblazer of Social Enterprise Procurement in Australia. Social Traders connects Certified Social Enterprises with Business and Government Members. By activating the power of Social Enterprise Procurement, Social Traders creates positive impact through jobs, community services and support for the most marginalised.

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Meet The Activators

  • Amy Orange - Social Procurement Lead SA, Social Traders

    Amy is the Social Procurement Lead for SA at Social Traders where she connects certified social enterprises to businesses and governments for social enterprise procurement opportunities. By tapping into our State’s $11bn plus annual procurement spend, businesses and governments can create jobs and unlock positive social and environmental impact simply by directing a percentage of their usual spend towards social enterprises.

  • Arianna Watson - Co-Founder, Think Enough

    Arianna is co-founder of Think Enough, a platform that encourages and facilitates people’s engagement with for-purpose businesses for their everyday purchases. After years of working in the not for profit sector across various countries, she travelled to Australia to meet, learn from and be inspired by the many social enterprises that are creating innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems. Through Think Enough, Arianna aims to provide a hopeful alternative to the dominant “doom and gloom” rhetoric, helping individuals see opportunities in the solutions that are already available around them.

  • Theresa Brown - Chair, South Australian Social Enterprise Council

    Theresa has worked in the community sector as a Community Development Manager and Service Development Manager for over 20 years in both local government and not for profit organisations.

    She is the founder of ‘Play it On’ a social enterprise that provides funding to assist children from families that are financially challenged, to play their chosen sport through the collection and sale of new and used sporting equipment. Theresa is a founding member of SASEC (South Australian Social Enterprise Council) and the newly elected Chair of its first democratically elected Board