ACRE 14 Highlights Through April and May 2024, Australian Rural Leadership Foundation (ARLF) commissioned ACRE to deliver a series of two-day Understanding Social Enterprise programs in Bundaberg, Townsville and Lismore. The immersive sessions explored social enterprise as a sustainable business model that blends people, planet and purpose for good, integrating knowledge of First Nations practices and existing social enterprises operating in the region. Participants in the two-day Townsville Understanding Social Enterprise workshop visit ABIS Community Co-Operative Society. A participant from the Townsville workshop shares their reflections. Meg Allan, Paris Brooke and Matt Pfahlert at Parliament House, ACT. Advocating to alleviate rural disadvantage – Parliament House, Canberra In April 2024, ACRE in partnership with The Wilderness Collective represented rural, regional and remote Australians at the SEGRA In-House session at Parliament House, Canberra. Matt Pfahlert, Meg Allan and Paris Brooke discussed social entrepreneurship as a key lever of change, helping to build economic, social and cultural wellbeing of rural communities and overcoming rural disadvantage. The importance of recognising and supporting community-led initiatives was also explored and their distinction to a place-based approach more broadly. Understanding Social Enterprise workshops in Queensland and Northern NSW
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