OUR FRIENDS

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.

OUR MEMBERSHIPS

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.

PARTNERS & SUPPORTERS

Australian Ethical

Bohmers Tree Care

Flame Tree Community Food Co-op

Food Fairness Illawarra

iAccelerate

Ian Potter Foundation

IMB Foundation

Resource Recovery Australia

Saltbush Clinic Austinmer

SCARF

The Funding Network

The Source Bulk Foods

Thirroul Natural Healing Centre

University of Wollongong

Warrawong High School

Westpac Foundation

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

LOCAL ORGANISATIONS

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 long term unemployed. More…
  • MakeShift– 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…

Local groups doing great things for people and the environment

  • Surfrider Foundation – bringing together people who love the ocean to help protect it. More…
  • Plastic Free Wollongong – educating, inspiring and empowering Illawarra to reduce single-use plastic. More…

NATIONAL SOCIAL ENTERPRISES

  • 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 artisinan bakery in Sydney training and employing former refugees and asylum seekers. More…