QSEC's 10th Anniversary Celebration: Looking Forward, Looking Back #qsocent

In May this year, the Queensland Social Enterprise Council (QSEC) turns 10! 

Join us to celebrate and share with the Queensland Social Enterprise Council community to commemorate ten years of empowering social impact in Queensland. The dinner is an opportunity to bring together past and current members of QSEC and the broader Queensland social enterprise community to celebrate, reflect, reminisce and share stories of impact.

We’ll look fondly back at our history and to collectively dream about shaping an equitable and sustainable future through social enterprise with our continually emerging ecosystem.

This will be no ordinary dinner celebration. 

Be prepared to bring with you your ‘crucible moments’. Listen and share your story, a moment, or an experience from your life about how social enterprise: “shaped the way that you view the world and what drives you to impact the future together”. 

The clincher: to tell a story that no one else knows.

Details

• Date: Friday 12th of May 2023
• Time: 6pm - 10pm
• Venue: Food Connect Shed, Textile Crescent, Salisbury
  

Ticket price will include a three course dinner with a drink on arrival. Cash bar available.

Not a QSEC Member? 

If you are yet to become a QSEC Member or Associate Member, apply to join via this link or contact the QSEC team on louise@qsec.org.au.

Seats are limited. Book now to secure your seat at the table!

Thank you one and all for what has been a truly remarkable decade.

Historypin

Contribute your social enterprise story to our Historypin, which will be highlighted on the night!

Major Supporter

10th Anniversary Supporters

This event has been proudly produced by Byron Preston at BDP Events.

What is the Historypin and why should you share your story at the anniversary dinner?

Historypin is a digital platform that provides you the opportunity to add your ‘crucible moment’, a story or memory, in a written or picture or video form. These will be collected and shared with friends and peers at the 10th Anniversary Dinner. 

Your contribution can be entered by adding a pin via this link.

Get to know the social enterprises who will feed you:

Three Little Birds Brisbane

Using native ingredients, ancient knowledge of customs and techniques to make food that just doesn’t just taste good but also work to acknowledge, educate, and celebrate the unique culture and natural resources Australia has to offer. Three Little Birds collaborates with Kuppibunda Kitchen to work with and provide opportunities to young people in detention.

Chef Chris Jordan, Three Little Birds Brisbane  

Chef and owner of Brisbane-based food events and products company Three Little Birds, Chris Jordan, connects with his First Nations ancestry through cooking with native ingredients. Alongside his business, he has held collaborative, pop-up dinners that grapple conceptually and gastronomically with Indigenous food sovereignty, cultural dispossession and climate change. He considers traditional food and knowledge to be an effective weapon in the fight against the environmental issues that Australia faces today.

Kuppibunda Kitchen

Founder Kara Pulou is owner of Kuppibunda Kitchen, working with young people in and out of detention across Queensland, introducing bush tucker and teaching them how to grow and forage in their community with guidance from Elders. Young people are then taught the knowledge of bush tucker ingredients, to learn how to cook in a modern cuisine, and providing them the opportunity for work experience and developing relevant industry skills. Kara has a passion and interest for culture and working with children from many backgrounds, in particular Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. She has over two decades of experience as a trainer and assessor in the state school system. Prior to Kuppibunda Kitchen, she successfully ran an indigenous inspired catering company called Platters on Willow.  

The Baking Bunch, Brisbane

The Baking Bunch is the highest level charity and a not for profit emerging social enterprise. Their purpose is to support people with disabilities to learn, grow, belong and work. Purchasing baked goods from The Baking Bunch provides more young people with disabilities access to wonderful opportunities to participate in their programs and gain employment. Helen, the founder, has over 30 years experience as a business consultant designing, developing and implementing business systems and learning programs with a particular passion for self paced learning.

Get to know the social enterprise venue who invites you into their space:

Food Connect Foundation

Food Connect Foundation is a not for profit food systems advocacy organisation, which exists alongside award-winning social enterprises Food Connect & Food Connect Shed which, for the last 18 years have transformed the local food system in Southeast Queensland, using principles of agroecology to engage ethically with family farms and local communities.

Emma-Kate is a mother of four, sister to five, aunty to 24 and the Executive Director at Food Connect Foundation. She’s a past Fellow of the Yunus Centre, Griffith University, and is currently a Special Advisor to Queensland Social Enterprise Council, where she was previously President from 2017-2020.