As well as choosing to buy local, you can add even more bang for your buck if you buy from businesses who employ people from GROW communities.
Your support enables these businesses to give jobs to local people who are doing it tough.
For your next purchase or project, check to see if there is an Indigenous Business, social or disability enterprise who can meet your needs.
Or you can use a for-profit business who employs local people with barriers to employment, including many GROW signatories. Check out Who is involved or email the GROW Team for contacts.
To embed these change in your business, you can add Social Procurement clauses in tenders and contracts, more information is here.
Social Benefit Suppliers
dal Café & Catering
The Aviary Cafe
Unisus Group
Larrakia Bilirra Group
Ngarrimili
Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation
BST Services Pty Ltd
Draper’s Civil Contracting Pty Ltd
Jacaranda Industries
John Holland Group
Westvic Staffing Solutions
Associated Rigging Australia
McHarry’s Buslines
Geelong Built
My Maintenance Crew
Kardinia Park Stadium Trust
Cubis Systems
Scaada Group Services
Caruso Bricklaying
Barwon Disability Resource Council
Bild Group
Direct Recruitment
Lifeline Geelong and South West Victoria
Fruit 2 Work
Common Ground Project
Bull Group Australia
Auswide Plumbing & Civil
Multiskills Training
Northern Futures
Wan-Yaari Aboriginal Consultancy Services
Aspire
Josie’s Transport Group
APS Asphalt Paving Services
Epworth Geelong
GenU (Karingal & St Laurence)
Borough of Queenscliff
Diversitat Geelong
Surf Coast Shire Council
Geelong Port
Geelong Sustainability
Hanlon Industries
Good Cycles
ArcBlue
TAC
WorkSafe
Committee for Geelong
Built Holdings Pty Ltd
Geelong Chamber of Commerce
Findex
The Salary Packaging People
Golden Plains Shire Council
City of Greater Geelong
Deakin University
Fagg’s Mitre 10 Belmont Timber
Gforce
GMHBA
Give Where You Live Foundation
Barwon Water
Encompass Community Services
Lyons Construction
Corio Waste Management
The Gordon