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
Assembled Threads
Salty One
dal Café & Catering
The Aviary Cafe
Unisus Group
Wathaurong Glass & Arts
Larrakia Bilirra Group
Ngarrimili
Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation
BST Services Pty Ltd
GDP Industries
Draper’s Civil Contracting Pty Ltd
Jacaranda Industries
John Holland Group
Management Governance Australia
Pace Advertising
Patrick Rowan and Associates
SMB Excellence
SMEC Australia Pty Ltd
Associated Rigging Australia
Westvic Staffing Solutions
WRB Construction Group Pty Ltd
Access Guides
Geelong Built
Home Instead Geelong
McHarry’s Buslines
Specialisterne
Royal Geelong Yacht Club
Scaada Group Services
Symal Group
South Western Alliance
Perry Demolition
My Maintenance Crew
Kardinia Park Stadium Trust
CDC Plumbing
C6 Group
JC Williams Electrical
Decmil Southern Pty Ltd
Northern Geelong Rental Housing Co-operative Ltd
Cubis Systems
Bild Group
Barwon Disability Resource Council
Hansen Yuncken Pty Ltd
Caruso Bricklaying
H4 Project Group
Advance Record Management
Spiire Australia Pty Ltd
Bull Group Australia
4GR Employment Consulting Services
Geelong Roofing
Fruit 2 Work
Common Ground Project
Lifeline Geelong and South West Victoria
Civilmart
Direct Recruitment
Bay City Group
Seeker Global
Patash and Civil
BMD Constructions
Bendigo Bank
Harwood Andrews
Auswide Plumbing & Civil
Go Protective Services
Entire Mechanical Services
Lendlease
Fulton Hogan
Tree Synergy
LB Learning Solutions
Keystone Civil
BOOMPower Pty Ltd
Multiskills Training
Plan Group
Innovative Window Solutions
Austeng
Gleaming Genies Cleaning Service
BESIXWatpac
APS Asphalt Paving Services
Surdex Steel
Nicholson Construction
Ireland Brown Construction
Josie’s Transport Group
Aspire
Northern Futures
Barwon Adolescent Task Force (BATForce)
Wan-Yaari Aboriginal Consultancy Services
Searoad Ferries
Go Traffic
Health Purchasing Victoria
Surf Coast Shire Council
Borough of Queenscliff
CMTP Movability & Protection Solutions
CLOS Cross Laminated Offsite Solutions
BERT – Business Enterprise Risk Technology
GenU (Karingal & St Laurence)
Barwon Asset Solutions
Epworth Geelong
CCP Group
Diversitat Geelong
Arpastart
Good Cycles
AWA Alliance Bank
Harvest Talent Recruitment
Hanlon Industries
Geelong Sustainability
Geelong Port
Rendine Constructions
Aus Eco Solutions
Committee for Geelong
Australian Lamb (Colac)
Chilwell Consulting
Barwon Child, Youth & Family (BCYF)
WorkSafe
Hamlan Homes
TAC
ArcBlue
The Salary Packaging People
Localised
Built Holdings Pty Ltd
Clann & One World Consulting
Kane Constructions
Findex
Geelong Chamber of Commerce
SC Technology
Lovely Banks Development Group
Golden Plains Shire Council
Geelong Manufacturing Council
Quintessential
GMHBA
Gforce
G21 – Geelong Region Alliance
Fagg’s Mitre 10 Belmont Timber
Deakin University
Colac Otway Shire
City of Greater Geelong
Barwon Water
Give Where You Live Foundation
Life Be In It Australia Pty Ltd
The Gordon
Barwon Health
Corio Waste Management
Air Radiators
Lyons Construction
Encompass Community Services
Bethany Community Support
Avalon Airport
Viva Energy
Colac Area Health