Creating Pathways to Opportunity: How Financial Inclusion Empowers Communities, hosted by AMP Foundation - BFGN Webinar Series #50

Creating Pathways to Opportunity: How Financial Inclusion Empowers Communities

Hosted by AMP Foundation | BFGN Webinar Series

What Becomes Possible When More People Have the Opportunity to Thrive?

The opportunity to shape your own future starts with access. Access to meaningful work, skills, resources, and the confidence to take the next step. Yet for many people, financial barriers and limited opportunities can make it difficult to participate fully in community life.

Join us for a panel discussion exploring how social enterprises are creating the conditions for economic empowerment through financial inclusion. From opening employment pathways to making community sport more accessible and valuing local knowledge, our panellists are taking different approaches to a shared ambition: helping more people build their own futures.

Facilitated by Lucy Watson, AMP Foundation Tomorrow Makers Program Manager, this session will feature three Tomorrow Makers whose work puts community needs at the centre of change.

Join the Conversation

Economic empowerment is about enabling individuals and communities to gain the skills, confidence, resources, and opportunities they need to shape their own futures. How can social enterprises help make that possible, and what can we learn from those already doing the work?

This panel will explore the connections between financial inclusion, employment, participation, and belonging. Our speakers will share the ideas behind their enterprises, the barriers they are working to address, and what they are learning along the way.

Whether you are building a social enterprise, supporting community initiatives, or exploring how your organisation can create more inclusive opportunities, this session will offer practical reflections and fresh perspectives from founders working closely with their communities.

Event Details

📅 Date: Wednesday, 11 November 2026
⏰ Time: 12–1 PM Brisbane (AEST) / 1–2 PM Sydney and Melbourne / 12:30–1:30 PM Adelaide / 11:30 AM–12:30 PM Darwin / 10–11 AM Perth
🖥 Online
🎟 Cost: Free for BFGN members, $20 for non-members

What You’ll Learn & Do

In this engaging panel discussion, our panellists will explore:

• How social enterprises can create pathways to economic empowerment at a community level

• The financial and practical barriers that prevent people from accessing work and participating in community life

• How training, employment, and hands-on experience can build confidence and expand opportunities

• Different approaches to making participation more affordable and directing resources back into communities

• Why listening to local people and valuing lived experience matters when designing inclusive solutions

• Lessons from founders building enterprises that support both individual opportunity and community wellbeing

About the Panellists

👤 Callum Champagne | Founder, Grow the Future Bega

Callum is the founder of Grow the Future Bega, a social enterprise creating opportunities for young people through growing food and regenerating the land. Through hands-on learning, supported work experience, and training, Grow the Future helps young people in the Bega Valley develop practical skills, build confidence, and explore pathways into employment.

👤 Sharin Milner | Founder, Split the Profit

Sharin is the founder of Split the Profit, a social enterprise helping grassroots sporting clubs keep participation within reach for more families. Drawing on her experience in basketball and the apparel industry, Sharin supplies sports and corporate apparel and returns 50% of profits to grassroots clubs, helping direct resources back into community sport.

👤 Obelia Tait | Founder, Inhabit Place

Obelia is an urbanist and founder of Inhabit Place, a social enterprise helping communities shape more inclusive public spaces. By training local people to collect insights about how places are used and experienced, Inhabit Place brings community knowledge into decision-making while creating workforce pathways for people facing barriers to employment.

🎤 Facilitator: Lucy Watson | Program Manager, AMP Foundation

Lucy Watson is the AMP Foundation Tomorrow Makers Program Manager and will facilitate this conversation with three Tomorrow Makers working to expand opportunities and support economic empowerment in their communities.

About the Host Organisation

The AMP Foundation supports social entrepreneurs, communities, and charities to help deliver solutions that contribute to economic empowerment. Through its Tomorrow Makers program, the Foundation supports social entrepreneurs at different stages of their journey with funding, capacity development, and mentoring, helping them test ideas, build strong foundations, and grow sustainable impact.

Why Attend?

Creating more inclusive communities takes people and organisations willing to understand barriers and build practical pathways through them.

This BFGN Webinar Series event is for social entrepreneurs, founders, funders, community leaders, and changemakers who want to explore how financial inclusion can support greater participation, choice, and opportunity.

You’ll leave with examples of social enterprise in action, insights into different approaches to economic empowerment, and ideas to bring into your own work and community.

🎟 Secure your spot now and join the conversation on creating pathways to opportunity!

Not a BFGN Member yet?

Join us and access free webinars, +30h of expert video content, resources, and a supportive community of changemakers!