Introducing the Green Connect op shop
The Bellambi op shop that Illawarra residents know and love is joining the Green Connect family and we are inviting the whole community to a morning [...]
Press release: Green Connect tackling youth employment
Green Connect – a Wollongong based social enterprise – has won a NSW Government contract to help solve youth unemployment. Green Connect has been engaged to [...]
Green Connect wins 2019 Australia Day award
Green Connect was honoured at the Wollongong City Council Australia Day awards last night, winning the award for Outstanding Community Group. Emmanuel Bakenga, Support Worker at [...]
Green Connect wins Excellence in Social Enterprise at the Illawarra Business Awards
We were honoured to win an Illawarra Business Award. Bron Williams, HR & Labour Hire Manager, and Kylie Flament, General Manager, were on hand to accept [...]
Social Traders Certified
We are proud to have been a certified social enterprise by Social Traders for several years now. Check out a range of other amazing social enterprises [...]
Green Connect featured in local cookbook
A huge thank you to the amazing team at Quicksand Food who have featured Green Connect in The Illawarra Cookbook and wrote this lovely piece about [...]
Green Connect merges with Community Resources
After several years within Our Community Project in Port Kembla, Green Connect and OCP identified that in order to create more permanent jobs, Green Connect needed [...]
Landline feature: “Small farms on urban wasteland helping refugees”
We’re honoured to have been featured on ABC’s Landline. Watch the video (just over 10 minutes) here.
Westpac Foundation Social Scale-Up
The Westpac Foundation has selected Green Connect as one of its inaugural social scale-up grant recipients. We couldn’t be happier! They also made a video about [...]