Thank you for registering for the Understanding Social Enterprise (USE) Program on 21st – 22nd May, 2024 in Bundaberg, facilitated by ACRE (Australian Centre for Rural Entrepreneurship) and proudly supported by the ARLF (Australian Rural Leadership Foundation).

Congratulations on making the first step towards further activating your business plans or simply deepening your knowledge and experience of social enterprise.

The program includes a full day workshop based at Regional Business HQ to allow participants to deep dive into the key elements and purpose of social enterprise and how they may be structured, legally and financially. The second day includes field trips to a variety of social enterprises to provide the opportunity to experience an enterprise in action, getting a taste of the products or services they provide and the difference they make for their community.

ACRE’s programs offer a peer and experiential learning approach, designed to meet the participants where they are and explore learning opportunities together. The Program is developed as learning and development modules, not as instructional education. Instead, they respond to the learning needs of each participant, offering them the opportunity to brainstorm new ideas, reflect and gain feedback on lived experience, scenarios or issues, so that learning is embedded in real experience.

The ACRE Facilitators are Social Entrepreneurs who have been on leadership, enterprise, and social impact journeys themselves for many decades and will share their own experiences with the group. The facilitators aim to ignite a new mindset in each participant that encourages curiosity and collaboration and helps strengthen their capacity to do what matters to them most and provides the know-how to drive change and move their ideas into action.

If you know anyone else who may benefit from attending this free program, please forward the links below.

Bundaberg: https://events.humanitix.com/understanding-social-enterprise-workshop-bundaberg

Lismore: https://events.humanitix.com/understanding-social-enterprise-workshop-lismore

We look forward to seeing you at the Understanding Social Enterprise Program on the 21st – 22nd May, 2024 at Regional Business HQ, corner of QUAY & Tantitha St, Bundaberg Central QLD 4670.

We endeavour to involve local social enterprises in our field trip and for catering purposes. If you are unable to attend please kindly email Sheree Mullen (shereem@acre.org.au), so that we can inform the businesses involved and offer your place to another enterprising community leader.