With the generous support of The City of Sydney, Virtual Mentoring Mondays are weekly virtual mentoring sessions for SECNA members only.

The objective of the session is to encourage community sourced insights and solutions to a challenge faced by a SECNA member. 

This week’s SECNA member presenter: Circle Paints

Challenge: Our challenge is how to scale up to a volume of sales where we can afford to pay a shop manager. The main constraints I'm noticing are hard limits on my time available to train and support volunteers and physical space limitations (to store stock). How do I make myself less central to the enterprise?

Agenda:

• Introduction

• SECNA member presents a challenge they are facing

• SECNA team facilitates open and curious questions and/or advice from the audience

• Wrap-up

Register via Humanitix.

Is your social enterprise facing a challenge? Complete this form to book a spot to present your challenge.

Join the Social Enterprise Council of NSW and ACT for the Parramatta Business for Good Lunch. 

Business for Good Lunches are open to anyone interested or involved in the social enterprise movement and are a fantastic opportunity to connect with local social enterprises and people and organisations that support them.

Thank you to City of Parramatta and Launch Pad at Western Sydney University for generously hosting the event and providing catering.

Registration via Humanitix essential. Register here

With the generous support of The City of Sydney, Virtual Mentoring Mondays are weekly virtual mentoring sessions for SECNA members only.

The objective of the session is to encourage community sourced insights and solutions to a challenge faced by a SECNA member.

This week’s social enterprise presenter: Etiko

Challenge being presented: A large part of what we do is help organisations apply social impact and environmental sustainability to their purchase of branded merchandise (think t-shirts, polo shirts and hoodies etc. We are finding it hard to get organisations, even other social enterprises, to 'walk the talk'. Keen to hear what others think that we need to do

Agenda:

• Introduction

• SECNA member presents a challenge they are facing

• SECNA team facilitates open and curious questions and/or advice from the audience

• Wrap-up

Register via Humanitix.

Is your social enterprise facing a challenge? Complete this form to book a spot to present your challenge.

Join the Social Enterprise Council of NSW and ACT for the Bayside Business for Good Breakfast.

The Bayside Business for Good Breakfast is open to anyone interested or involved in the social enterprise movement and are a fantastic opportunity to connect, raise questions and share your ideas and learnings.

Please note: We ask that you buy your own food or drinks on the day and help us support a local business.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The SECNA team

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SECNA members are invited to join Jeffin Johnson and Beno Matthew from Thinkgrid for a one-hour workshop.

The workshop will cover:

• Off the shelf AI tools e.g. Chat GPT

• Custom AI and what would work for social enterprises

• Practical examples

• Q&A

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About ThinkGrid:

We are a team of technologists and designers that want to see all kinds of businesses succeed in their own visions. We work by being their trusted solution partners and insist on delivering high-quality products within their budget. Our team is a mix of people with a wide variety of experiences and skills, those that have worked in startups and large enterprises, expats and individuals from reputed universities.

With the generous support of The City of Sydney, Virtual Mentoring Mondays are weekly virtual mentoring sessions for SECNA members only.

The objective of the session is to encourage community sourced insights and solutions to a challenge faced by a SECNA member.

This week’s social enterprise presenter: CPR Kids

Challenge being presented: Funding equipment - as the business expands we need to purchase more CPR Manikins and defibrillators, however these items are of great expense to the business. I would love a discussion around alternate ways to fund - from corporate sponsorship to grant finding etc. 

Agenda:

• Introduction

• SECNA member presents a challenge they are facing

• SECNA team facilitates open and curious questions and/or advice from the audience

• Wrap-up

Register via Humanitix.

Is your social enterprise facing a challenge? Complete this form to book a spot to present your challenge.

Thanks to the generous support of The Leadership Space, SECNA members can register to attend a one-hour, free virtual strategy workshop: How to make strategy work for you

Register via Humanitix.

Overview

This workshop will help you to get clear on how to make strategy work for you, adapting it for your age and stage of enterprise. We’ll cover what strategic agility might look like, how to use strategy to support prioritisation, the key pain points with strategy and how to avoid them. We’ll provide a framework, tools, a process and case studies.

Your workshop facilitators

Elise Sernik

Elise is an executive and team coach, strategy consultant, leadership and change facilitator and trainer with a long history of specialising in the social purpose sector. She founded Leadership Space to help the sector fulfil its critical role in the Australian and global economy.

Over the past 15 years, Elise has worked with hundreds of leaders across the sector helping them to unlock their ability to set strategic direction, lead, team, partner and accelerate the achievement of meaningful social impact.

Barb Barkley

Barb is an experienced coach and facilitator working closely with leaders and executive teams for over 7 years across the social purpose sector, in particular building a deep experience in the NDIS and Arts communities.

Through her executive and team coaching, Barb works at both the individual and systematic levels of organisations to support leaders to set strategy, create positive values-based cultures, build cohesive teams and increase their own personal self-awareness of their leadership impact. This work is customised to the needs of each organisation whether it be for smaller teams or highly complex multi-layered organisations.

With the generous support of The City of Sydney, Virtual Mentoring Mondays are weekly virtual mentoring sessions for SECNA members only.

The objective of the session is to encourage community sourced insights and solutions to a challenge faced by a SECNA member. 

This week’s SECNA member presenter: Karen Hedley - The Easy Read Toolbox

Challenge: Decisions relating to partnership and / or investors. Should we / shouldn't we? What are the pros and cons? Others' experiences.

Agenda:

• Introduction

• SECNA member presents a challenge they are facing

• SECNA team facilitates open and curious questions and advice from the audience

• Wrap-up

Is your social enterprise facing a challenge? Complete this form to book a spot to present your challenge.

Register via Humanitix.

With the generous support of The City of Sydney, Virtual Mentoring Mondays are weekly virtual mentoring sessions for SECNA members only.

The objective of the session is to encourage community sourced insights and solutions to a challenge faced by a SECNA member. 

This week’s SECNA member presenter: Nook Studios

Challenge: Nook Studios is a social enterprise of open government advocates, researchers, designers, storytellers, and creative civic technologists. We run workshops, events, and make useful content and information products that simply explain, visualise, and connect complex laws, data and processes. Our goals are to help organisations be open, communicate effectively, and enable communities to participate in decisions that impact them. We are well known overseas, have great projects and products that people and governments want, but we are finding it difficult to find local funders and project partners.

We are keen to know if people are interested in learning about open government. We work on mining, oil and gas, energy transition so keen to find funders who care about that. Any ideas for funders/project partners interested in making procurement processes easier to navigate and contracting data more accessible? In particular we are keen to find funding to continue our work supporting resource recovery social enterprises. We have tax deductible donation status via the Australian Cultural Fund. We are also keen to hear about funders who provide core funding.

Agenda:

• Introduction

• SECNA member presents a challenge they are facing

• SECNA team facilitates open and curious questions and/or advice from the audience

• Wrap-up

Register via Humanitix.

Is your social enterprise facing a challenge? Complete this form to book a spot to present your challenge.

With the generous support of The City of Sydney, Virtual Mentoring Mondays are weekly virtual mentoring sessions for SECNA members only.

The objective of the session is to encourage community sourced insights and solutions to a challenge faced by a SECNA member. 

This week’s SECNA member presenter: RoseyRavelston Books

Challenge: Marketing. We need to figure out how to better tell our story to the wider public and how to draw in more customers to our physical and online bookshops, within a limited budget. How do we stand out from all the other physical and online bookshops in Australia?

Agenda:

• Introduction

• SECNA member presents a challenge they are facing

• SECNA team facilitates open and curious questions and/or advice from the audience

• Wrap-up

Register via Humanitix.

Is your social enterprise facing a challenge? Complete this form to book a spot to present your challenge.

With the generous support of The City of Sydney, Virtual Mentoring Mondays are weekly virtual mentoring sessions for SECNA members only.

The objective of the session is to encourage community sourced insights and solutions to a challenge faced by a SECNA member. 

This week’s SECNA member presenter: Kayu&Co

Challenge: Selling through multi channel but hard to focus on which channels in the beginning. I also planning to do an exhibition in the US but I don't have enough knowledge about it. How to decide on focusing which revenue stream? What is the pathway to join exhibition in the US?

Agenda:

• Introduction

• SECNA member presents a challenge they are facing

• SECNA team facilitates open and curious questions and/or advice from the audience

• Wrap-up

Register via Humanitix.

Is your social enterprise facing a challenge? Complete this form to book a spot to present your challenge.

SECNA Quarterly Meetups are an opportunity for existing SECNA members and partners and people interested in learning more about or joining SECNA to get together and connect as a community.

Come along to SECNA’s co-working hub in South Eveleigh to connect and network with the social enterprise ecosystem community over drinks and nibbles.

Register via Humanitix.

With the generous support of The City of Sydney, Virtual Mentoring Mondays are weekly virtual mentoring sessions for SECNA members only.

The objective of the session is to encourage community sourced insights and solutions to a challenge faced by a SECNA member. 

This week’s SECNA member presenter: The Big Feed

Challenge: Prior to Covid we were expanding our business advisory services (supporting food and wellness business), employing/mentoring 2 trainees and about to recruit a business development manager. Due to the nature of their businesses, ALL of our clients were impacted by the lockdowns and we sadly had to let our employees go :( Now we are basically in startup mode again with a new focus and strategy!

Agenda:

• Introduction

• SECNA member presents a challenge they are facing

• SECNA team facilitates open and curious questions and/or advice from the audience

• Wrap-up

Register via Humanitix.

Is your social enterprise facing a challenge? Complete this form to book a spot to present your challenge.

Join the Social Enterprise Council of NSW and ACT for the Newcastle Business for Good Lunch. 

Business for Good Lunches are open to anyone interested or involved in the social enterprise movement and are a fantastic opportunity to connect, raise questions and share your ideas and learnings.

Please note: We ask that you buy your own food or drinks on the day and help us support a local social enterprise. 

We look forward to seeing you there!

Register via Humanitix

With the generous support of The City of Sydney, Virtual Mentoring Mondays are weekly virtual mentoring sessions for SECNA members only.

The objective of the session is to encourage community sourced insights and solutions to a challenge faced by a SECNA member. 

This week’s SECNA member presenter: The Social Story Co

Challenge: Scaling the business and formalising our impact in measurable ways

Agenda:

• Introduction

• SECNA member presents a challenge they are facing

• SECNA team facilitates open and curious questions and/or advice from the audience

• Wrap-up

Register via Humanitix.

Is your social enterprise facing a challenge? Complete this form to book a spot to present your challenge.

With the generous support of The City of Sydney, Virtual Mentoring Mondays are weekly virtual mentoring sessions for SECNA members only.

The objective of the session is to encourage community sourced insights and solutions to a challenge faced by a SECNA member. 

This week’s SECNA member presenter: The Reconnect Project

Challenge: We have grown quickly and have struggled to keep up with the number of policies and procedures we need to build. 

Agenda:

• Introduction

• SECNA member presents a challenge they are facing

• SECNA team facilitates open and curious questions and/or advice from the audience

• Wrap-up

Register via Humanitix.

Is your social enterprise facing a challenge? Complete this form to book a spot to present your challenge.

Join the Social Enterprise Council of NSW and ACT for the Canberra Business for Good Lunch. 

Business for Good Lunches are open to anyone interested or involved in the social enterprise movement and are a fantastic opportunity to connect, raise questions and share your ideas and learnings.

Please note: We ask that you buy your own food or drinks on the day and help us support a local social enterprise. 

We look forward to seeing you there!

Register via Humanitix

Join the Social Enterprise Council of NSW and ACT for the Wingecarribee Business for Good Brunch. 

Business for Good Lunches (in this case, brunch!) are open to anyone interested or involved in the social enterprise movement and are a fantastic opportunity to connect, raise questions and share your ideas and learnings.

Ticket includes food, coffee and a short talk by Moonacres.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Register via Humanitix

Join the Social Enterprise Council of NSW and ACT for the Wollongong Business for Good Lunch. 

Business for Good Lunches are open to anyone interested or involved in the social enterprise movement and are a fantastic opportunity to connect, raise questions and share your ideas and learnings.

Please note: We ask that you buy your own food or drinks on the day and help us support a local social enterprise. 

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Presented in partnership Social Traders and SECNA welcome you to join us at our upcoming New South Wales Social Enterprise showcase, and networking event, featuring social enterprise market stalls for your holiday season gifts! 

This interactive session, and social enterprise showcase is designed to help connect business and government with social enterprise to create lasting social procurement partnerships.  We hope that by showcasing growth opportunities we together can create a thriving social enterprise sector in New South Wales!

For those last-minute Christmas presents, don’t forget to visit our social enterprise Christmas market.  

There will be a range of unique and clever gift ideas on offer including fashion, accessories, homewares, delicious treats, candles, teas and health and beauty products. This is great opportunity to support the social enterprise sector and do good for people and planet when you shop for friends and family for Christmas.   

Why should you attend? 

• Opportunity to network with like-minded businesses, social enterprises and purpose-driven individuals

• Opportunity to buy impactful gifts for the holiday season 

• Meet the Social Traders and SECNA teams 

• Get your questions answered by social procurement services experts. 

Who should you attend? 

• Social enterprises and social entrepreneurs with a service, trade or product to sell.   

• Individuals who work in social procurement (e.g. social procurement advisors or managers, executive assistants etc) 

• Government departments, agencies and local council 

• Local businesses interested in social procurement 

• Individuals looking for impactful gifts this holiday season 

How will the day run? 

• Informal networking and social enterprise market from 5pm 

• Formal networking and showcase with social enterprise pitching from 6pm. Catering throughout. 

• Informal networking and social enterprise market 7:30 - 8pm

Secure your place today!   

• Registration is essential and is limited to three participants per registration, registration will close at 10 am the day prior unless booked out 

• Social enterprises attending are limited to one representative per social enterprise to provide a one-minute pitch to members in a round table setting.   

• Check out this useful guide for tips and tricks in crafting the perfect pitch to prepare for your curated introduction to buyer members.

Note: Please share this invite to anyone in your organisation who might be interested.  

Catering will be provided - If you have any questions about this event, please contact the Social Traders events team events@socialtraders.com.au with any queries.  

Join us in the charge for better business today.   
 

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A quarterly community of practice meeting for social entrepreneurs working for inclusive physical and mental health and well-being. Share knowledge, insights, resources and speak with one voice to advocate for a policy environment that promotes access to supportive ways to be healthy and well.

This event is for SECNA members and special guests only. Please contact us if you would like to join.