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ENTERPRISE LEARNING PROJECTS 2016 Impact Report CONTENTS ENTERPRISE LEARNING PROJECTS 2016 Impact Report CONTENTS MESSAGES FROM CHAIR/CEO 01 ABOUT US 02 OUR MODEL 03 OUR TEAM 06 OUR IMPACT AT A GLANCE 08 OUR IMPACT BY COMMUNITY 09 CULTIVATING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM 42 SECTOR CONTRIBUTION 44 ASPIRATIONS FOR 2017 AND BEYOND 46 HELP MAKE AN IMPACT 47 MESSAGE FROM CHAIR This Impact Report documents how much ELP and its partner communities have achieved with minimal funding. Patient and dedicated ELP staff have helped our partner communities to unleash their inherent creativity and capacity to work. Remote indigenous communities are a magnificent part of Australia’s heritage, providing the world with a connection to its oldest culture. In the age of global business, these communities have the opportunity to connect with mainstream economies, while preserving their culture and community. ELP and its growing band of partners and supporters have a bright future. Lindsay Bevege - Chair of Board MESSAGE FROM THE CEO Our end game is one in which Aboriginal people living in remote communities have the ability to identify and pursue business ideas. We’re steadily working towards this, and the enterprise learning and development that ELP is fostering through our community partnerships is steadily laying the foundation for this to be achieved. The impact we have created this year has been a collective effort and we are so grateful to all of our collaborators. Support for inclusive entrepreneurship is building and we look forward to seeing what is possible in 2017. Laura Egan - CEO 01 ABOUT US ELP exists to foster and support grassroots micro business development in remote Aboriginal communities throughout Australia in order to address the extreme economic exclusion experienced by Aboriginal people and to enable non-Indigenous Australians to connect with and share in Australia’s many Aboriginal cultures. We partner with communities to develop inclusive, creative and sustainable enterprise-based initiatives that support family and community goals. ELP’s grassroots enterprise facilitation approach builds economic agency and fosters local economies, resulting in improved wellbeing and brighter futures for residents of remote Aboriginal communities. ELP’s work with remote communities is informed and driven by individual, family and community aspirations around economic and social change. Strong themes that have emerged in our work with remote communities to date include employment and job readiness, youth mental health/suicide prevention, justice reinvestment, and the desire to preserve traditional knowledge and cultural practices. ELP’s model uses enterprise learning and development as a tool to achieve sustainable responses to these issues. 02 OUR MODEL ELP’s model, co-designed in partnership with remote Aboriginal communities, increases the economic empowerment and participation of extremely economically marginalised individuals by providing opportunities for people to build the skills, knowledge and confidence to explore, develop and grow their ideas into microenterprises. The key foundations of our model are: CAPACITY BUILDING Our team of enterprise facilitators provide responsive community capacity building support to enable people to build the skills, knowledge and confidence required to engage in the economy. This includes governance and decision-making, financial literacy, creative thinking and problem-solving, and the confidence to explore opportunities and take measured business risks. FOSTERING AN ENABLING ‘ECOSYSTEM’ ELP works to develop the supporting entrepreneurial ecosystem within communities, regions and across Australia to enable emerging entrepreneurs access to appropriate business support infrastructure. This includes relevant networks, information, markets, finance and financial management support, physical spaces and technology. A LONG TERM-APPROACH We commit to journeying with individuals and communities as they embark on the process of business development. We work hard to resource each step along the way, so they can be confident they have the support they will need. 03 “PEOPLE COME AND GO ALL THE TIME, BUT THERE’S NO FOLLOW THROUGH, NO ACCOUNTABILITY. WITH ELP, WE WALK TOGETHER, WE GET INFORMATION TOGETHER, WE HELP EACH OTHER. WE BUILD UP TRUST AND MUTUAL RESPECT. WE KNOW ELP ARE GOING TO KEEP COMING BACK AND HELPING US.” MARGARET DUNCAN, ENTREPRENEUR- KATHERINE NT The principles underpinning our approach: • The ideas and aspirations of local people form the starting point • Community members make and own decisions • Start small and grow • Build on assets • People learn as they go • Low start-up costs • Rapid prototyping for practical and early learning 04 ELP’S FIVE STAGES OF ENTERPRISE FACILITATION Throughout these five stages, ELP showcases the many possibilities that can community members build the skills, DISCOVER be generated through enterprise and during knowledge, networks and confidence to 01 the discover stage this enables individuals to launch and sustain viable businesses deepen their understanding of enterprise as a pathway to economic empowerment The explore stage focuses During the dreaming stage spaces are on understanding and created to reflect on individual and testing enterprise feasibility DREAM and involves hands-on community aspirations and explore how 02 EXPLORE 03 enterprise can be a vehicle to achieve experimentation and market these. research. The develop stage involves the formalisation of a business entity, the establishment of relevant business DEVELOP 05 GROW administration systems and a revenue 04 model to ensure sustainability The grow stage supports the business to identify opportunities for expanding the business. 05 OUR TEAM ELP Board Profiles Lindsay Bevege Margaret Duncan Professor Katherine Gibson Ben Shockman Laura Egan THE ELP TEAM Laura Egan Tanya Egerton Sarah Barrow Julia Walsh Lillian Tait CEO Enterprise Coordinator Enterprise Facilitator (Minyerri Enterprise Facilitator Families Learning Together & Jilkminggan) (Daly River) Project Facilitator (Minyerri) 06 Susannah Wallman/Kate Fandry Clare Wood – Enterprise Ashton Kealy Elliat Rich Gabrielle Howlett – WA State Manager Facilitator (Kalumburu) Enterprise Facilitator Designer Sales (Galiwinku) Maree Cochrane – Impact and Indu Balachandran Patty Akopiantz Julia Fuller Ruby Bovill Partnerships Strategic Advisor Mentor to CEO Intern Volunteer Facilitator Nathaniel Joshua Samara Billy Doris Yethun Cheryl Zurvas Emma Shepherd Enterprise Facilitator Local Facilitator Local Facilitator Local Facilitator Volunteer Facilitator 07 ELP is currently partnering with 8 communities across Australia to explore enterprise as a tool for supporting family and community goals and have received requests for support from a growing number 8 of communities who we hope to be able to work with in 2017. COMMUNITIES Ecosystems are key to ELP has supported 150 people to fostering successful 150 engage in hands on enterprise entrepreneurs and thriving 50 PEOPLE learning opportunities resulting local economies. A key IN-KIND with improved skills, in enhanced economic agency. part of ELP’s model and SUPPORTERS knowledge, networks The impact is amplified as many approach involves building and confidence. more people are exposed to supportive ecosystems the idea of enterprise as the within and across the entrepreneurs we work with regions we work in to ensure become mentors within their emerging enterprises have family and community. the best chance of success. IMPACT AT In 2016, we secured just shy of $650,000 to resource A GLANCE our work. The impact ELP created through the strategic deployment of these resources was remarkable. ELP makes a commitment to journey with our partner Our team of enterprise communities for the long- facilitators have supported term. We actively draw 25 34+ community members to identify, in resources to make FUNDING ENTERPRISE explore and test out a range of this possible through the enterprise ideas based on their development of partnerships PARTNERS IDEAS EXPLORED skills, interests, culture and with a broad range of country. stakeholders who share our partner communities’ goals. 11 BUSINESSES BEING 14 products brought to market INCUBATED @ yunmi.com.au, with a combined sales revenue over $70,000 08 OUR IMPACT BY COMMUNITY ELP partnered with 8 remote communities across Australia in 2016: • Minyerri (NT) Galawinku • Jilkminggan (NT) Daly River • Yarralin (NT) Katherine • Katherine (NT) Jilkminggan Minyerri • Daly River (NT) Yarralin • Galiwin’ku (NT) Kalumburu • Kalumburu (WA) • Oodnadatta (SA) Each project was driven by community, supported by ELP facilitators and enabled through a range of different funding partnerships. NORTHERN TERRITORY WESTERN AUSTRALIA Oodnadatta SOUTH AUSTRALIA MINYERRI 2016 SNAPSHOT Minyerri is a small community located 580km southeast of Darwin in the Roper region of the Northern Territory, situated on the traditional lands of the Alawa people. The land is rich with plants and animals and the people are full of knowledge, language and culture. Minyerri lies close to the Hodgson River and is surrounded by sandstone hills and billabongs. Since 2015, ELP has been working with the community of Minyerri to establish Minyerri Arts and Cultural Centre, a hub from which enterprise ideas can be explored and developed. It is a space for people to learn, revive and teach skills such as basket weaving, screen printing and painting, as well as projects that celebrate the Alawa language and culture. In 2016, ELP worked closely with 22 community members on their
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