Settlement Services + Social Enterprises
Settlement agencies and social enterprises have much to gain from working with each other, as do the many refugees and migrants that they both support. Find out about different social enterprises that support refugees and migrants, and how to connect with them below.
Benefits for social enterprises
- Expanded capacity to increase number of referrals to social enterprise
- Settlement agencies, through their ongoing work with clients and communities, are well placed to ‘screen’ and identify candidates who are appropriate, and refer them
- Settlement agencies have an expansive knowledge of and expertise in providing and connecting wrap-around services
- Expand reach and impact of social enterprises
Benefits for settlement services
- Opportunity to enhance settlement outcomes through facilitating greater community linkages and employment opportunities
- Creates opportunities for settlement services to refer clients to local businesses and programs that can meet their needs, interests and skills
- Develop local links with organisations to foster strong relationships and potential collaborations
- Extend outreach of wrap around service support
- The ability to reach individuals or communities who they may have not previously engaged with
Career Seekers Sydney Office
CareerSeekers is a non-profit organisation supporting Australia’s humanitarian entrants into professional careers. Our program provides in-depth preparation and support to both refugees and people seeking asylum who are either currently studying at university, or looking to restart their professional career in Australia |
CareerSeekers Melbourne Office
CareerSeekers is a non-profit organisation supporting Australia’s humanitarian entrants into professional careers. Our program provides in-depth preparation and support to both refugees and people seeking asylum who are either currently studying at university, or looking to restart their professional career in Australia |
Mantua Sewing Studio
Mantua Sewing Studio is a Brisbane-based social enterprise that provides local, ethical and high quality design and manufacturing services for Australian clothing labels by drawing on the sewing expertise of women from refugee and migrant backgrounds. |
Ignite Small Business Start-ups
Community Corporate
Community Corporate specialises in working with refugee and migrant communities, as well as women, youth and long term unemployed. Their custom designed refugee employment program is tailored to the appetite of corporate partners, by adapting and creating different processes for recruitment and entry into their businesses. Community Corporate brokers strategic partnerships between the community, corporate and public sectors, and creates opportunities for organisations and leaders with shared values and a commitment to social responsibility to collaborate.
Community Corporate
Community Corporate specialises in working with refugee and migrant communities, as well as women, youth and long term unemployed. Their custom designed refugee employment program is tailored to the appetite of corporate partners, by adapting and creating different processes for recruitment and entry into their businesses. Community Corporate brokers strategic partnerships between the community, corporate and public sectors, and creates opportunities for organisations and leaders with shared values and a commitment to social responsibility to collaborate.
Community Corporate
Community Corporate specialises in working with refugee and migrant communities, as well as women, youth and long term unemployed. Their custom designed refugee employment program is tailored to the appetite of corporate partners, by adapting and creating different processes for recruitment and entry into their businesses. Community Corporate brokers strategic partnerships between the community, corporate and public sectors, and creates opportunities for organisations and leaders with shared values and a commitment to social responsibility to collaborate.
Community Corporate
Community Corporate specialises in working with refugee and migrant communities, as well as women, youth and long term unemployed. Their custom designed refugee employment program is tailored to the appetite of corporate partners, by adapting and creating different processes for recruitment and entry into their businesses. Community Corporate brokers strategic partnerships between the community, corporate and public sectors, and creates opportunities for organisations and leaders with shared values and a commitment to social responsibility to collaborate.
Community Corporate
Community Corporate specialises in working with refugee and migrant communities, as well as women, youth and long term unemployed. Their custom designed refugee employment program is tailored to the appetite of corporate partners, by adapting and creating different processes for recruitment and entry into their businesses. Community Corporate brokers strategic partnerships between the community, corporate and public sectors, and creates opportunities for organisations and leaders with shared values and a commitment to social responsibility to collaborate.
Community Corporate
Community Corporate specialises in working with refugee and migrant communities, as well as women, youth and long term unemployed. Their custom designed refugee employment program is tailored to the appetite of corporate partners, by adapting and creating different processes for recruitment and entry into their businesses. Community Corporate brokers strategic partnerships between the community, corporate and public sectors, and creates opportunities for organisations and leaders with shared values and a commitment to social responsibility to collaborate.
Brotherhood of St Laurence
The Brotherhood of St Laurence provides employment services for refugees and migrants. They this by partnering with a variety of businesses across different industries. They also offer apprenticeships, traineeships and labour-hire, using the expertise of BSL to maximise positive employment outcomes. Australian apprenticeships and traineeships offer opportunities to train, study and simultaneously earn an income in a wide range of occupations and trades
Hotel Housekeeping
Hotel Housekeeping provides outsourced and on-demand hotel housekeeping services and staff to hotels and resorts across Australia.
They do this by providing support and industry training to refugees and migrants, ensuring successful transitions into sustainable employment for individuals, and creating exceptional teams for employers.
Hotel Housekeeping
Hotel Housekeeping provides outsourced and on-demand hotel housekeeping services and staff to hotels and resorts across Australia. They do this by providing support and industry training to refugees and migrants, ensuring successful transitions into sustainable employment for individuals, and creating exceptional teams for employers.
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Hotel Housekeeping
Hotel Housekeeping provides outsourced and on-demand hotel housekeeping services and staff to hotels and resorts across Australia.
They do this by providing support and industry training to refugees and migrants, ensuring successful transitions into sustainable employment for individuals, and creating exceptional teams for employers.
Hotel Housekeeping
Hotel Housekeeping provides outsourced and on-demand hotel housekeeping services and staff to hotels and resorts across Australia.
They do this by providing support and industry training to refugees and migrants, ensuring successful transitions into sustainable employment for individuals, and creating exceptional teams for employers.
Hotel Housekeeping
Hotel Housekeeping provides outsourced and on-demand hotel housekeeping services and staff to hotels and resorts across Australia.
They do this by providing support and industry training to refugees and migrants, ensuring successful transitions into sustainable employment for individuals, and creating exceptional teams for employers.
Hotel Housekeeping
Hotel Housekeeping provides outsourced and on-demand hotel housekeeping services and staff to hotels and resorts across Australia.
They do this by providing support and industry training to refugees and migrants, ensuring successful transitions into sustainable employment for individuals, and creating exceptional teams for employers.
Hotel Housekeeping
Hotel Housekeeping provides outsourced and on-demand hotel housekeeping services and staff to hotels and resorts across Australia.
They do this by providing support and industry training to refugees and migrants, ensuring successful transitions into sustainable employment for individuals, and creating exceptional teams for employers.
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Green Connect
Green Connect are a non-for-profit social enterprise who employ young people and former refugees · A Fair Food farm, selling fruit, vegetables, herbs, free-range meat, eggs, honey and flowers. We also run farm tours, workshops, school excursions and corporate volunteer days. · A Zero Waste Op Shop, selling, giving away and recycling second-hand items · A Zero Waste service, designing sustainable events, managing event waste to compost and recycle as much as possible, undertaking waste audits for businesses, and providing waste consultancy services · Gardening and Landscaping, providing commercial garden maintenance, large-scale planting and mulching, and residential garden design and blitzes · Staffing Solutions, providing hardworking, reliable staff for labour hire and recruitment
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Her Kitchen Table
Her Kitchen Table is a beautiful blend of sharing foods, values, exchange of love and embracing the talents of multicultural women based in Canberra. Women rich in diverse cultural backgrounds can use this platform to share their unique cultures and stories through home-style-food. On the one hand, this platform empowers culturally diverse women to turn their passion into a profession while on the other hand, it focuses on connecting the broader community with the spirit of exchange and love.
Find a social enterprise that works with refugees and migrants near you
In referring a client to a social enterprise, keep the following in mind:
- If you are going to have lots of clients over time who might be referred, reach out to the social enterprise and ask what they are specifically looking for in participants.
- What is the client’s suitability to engage with the social enterprise? Do they have appropriate interests and skills where necessary?
- Is it practical for the client to engage with the social enterprise – do they have appropriate transport options, or access to childcare for example?
Can’t view the map, download a list of social enterprises here.
What is a social enterprise?
Social enterprises are organisations that operate with a purpose. They are defined as organisations that:
- are led by an economic, social, cultural, or environmental mission consistent with a public or community benefit
- trade to fulfil their mission
- derive a substantial portion of their income from trade, and
- reinvest the majority of their profit or surplus in the fulfilment of their mission
Many social enterprises operate with the purpose of supporting refugees and new migrants, for example by linking them with employment and training opportunities, or directly hiring them to manufacture or roll out their goods or services. Many social enterprises that work with refugees and migrants also provide significant wrap-around support by working with individual clients to support their needs. Wrap around support may include activities such as transportation to the workplace, pre-employment and ongoing training and professional development, mentoring opportunities, and the provision other settlement information where possible.
Partnerships and referrals with and from settlement agencies have the capacity to benefit individual clients, social enterprises, and the settlement sector.
“Mantua is not just a job it’s a family. I come here and forget all my worries, we don’t know where the time goes”
His family has been farming the beans for many generations. He began importing his beans to Australia and needed support to build a structure around his business and develop a business model. His business went through challenging times as he changed partners and investors. Ignite Enterprise Facilitators (EFs) networked him to their resource team accountant who provided expert advice and his company is now back on track. With new partners and investors the business is now doing well and expanding.