Green Connect benefits from the tireless efforts of many. We’re a very proud community of people coming together to recover waste, grow fair food and create jobs, particularly for young people and former refugees.
Partners
- Flame Tree Community Food Co-op
- Food Fairness Illawarra
- iAccelerate
- Resource Recovery Australia
- SCARF
- Social Traders
- The Source Bulk Foods
- University of Wollongong
- Warrawong High School
Supporters
- Westpac Foundation
- Ian Potter Foundation
- IMB Foundation
- Australian Ethical
- The Funding Network
Major customers
- Architects of Entertainment
- Balinese Spice Magic
- NSW Department of Industry
- Flame Tree Community Food Co-op
- Kiama Municipal Council
- Novotel Wollongong
- Select Civil
- Shoalhaven City Council
- Soilco
- The Red Kitchen
- University of Wollongong
- Wollongong City Council
- Yours and Owls
We also work within an amazing community full of people doing amazing things. Here is a list of some of our favourite organisations that we encourage you to support.
Wollongong organisations we love
Social enterprises in the Illawarra
- Flagstaff Group – an organisation running multiple social enterprises that employ people with disabilities. More…
- Resource Recovery Australia – running tip shops, transfer stations and weighbridges while providing jobs for longterm unemployed. More…
- Rumpus – a skillshare organisation specialising in purposeful play with lots of great workshops. More…
- Soft Landing – a mattress recycling company that employs those that need the jobs most. More…
Farms in Wollongong
- Popes Produce – a chemical-free permaculture market garden just like ours but in Woonona. More…
- Farmers by Choice – a chemical-free permaculture market garden just like ours but in Bulli. More…
Fair food organisations in the Illawarra
- Food Fairness Illawarra – bringing people together to form a fairer food system in our region. More…
- Hidden Harvest – upskilling us all to reduce food waste. More…
- Flame Tree Community Food Co-op – a not-for-profit retail shop in Thirroul that sells local, organic and packaging-free food and benefits members. More…
- Fair Food Forager – an app that makes it easy to eat ethically and sustainably. More…
Support organisations in Wollongong
- SCARF – an amazing volunteer organisation that supports and advocates for former refugees in Wollongong. More…
- The Acorn Cafe – just across the road from our op shop in Bellambi, this social enterprise cafe serves great coffee and food. More…
Local groups doing great things for people and the environment
Australian social enterprises we love
- Green Collect – an office recycling organisation in Melbourne employing people with disabilities. More…
- WorkVentures – a not-for-profit IT social enterprise employing young people in Sydney. More…
- Who Gives a Crap – toilet paper that builds toilets. More…
- Good Cycles – using bikes to change lives in Melbourne. More…
- STREAT – a hospitality social enterprise in Melbourne employing homeless people to give them a hand up. More…
- Waste Aid Australia – working in and with remote Aboriginal communities to implement positive waste management solutions. More…
- Bread & Butter Project – an artisinal bakery in Sydney training and employing former refugees and asylum seekers. More…
