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About Social Enterprise Hub
Our Social Enterprise Hub is where employability meets social impact, an opportunity for you to use your skills and energy to make the world a better place.
Taking what you learn in the classroom into relevant positive organisations gives you meaningful work experience and networking opportunities that will see you graduate confident and career-ready. At the same time, you’ll be helping valuable organisations and initiatives reach their goals and making a contribution to your community.
Torrens University’s Student-Led Consulting Agency
The Social Enterprise Hub delivers business consultancy services using the talent of our students under the leadership of an industry expert. In exchange, students gain practical and meaningful industry experience that helps prepare them for their future careers. As a student led consulting agency, students work at the social enterprise hub to shape its design, assist in coordination of operations and deliver consultancy projects to our purpose driven clients.
Be the change you want to see
Enhance your employability
Gain practical experience
Develop a broad range of skills
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Be the change you want to see
Our recent consultancy projects
Our partner organisations share our commitment to make a positive social impact. As part of your learning experience in the Social Enterprise Hub, you will be a part of a consulting team where you’ll use your skills and knowledge to help them achieve their objectives and add value to their organisations.
Viva Mutual
VIVA Mutual is an Adelaide based National Disability Service Provider VIVA Mutual that offers a range of support services that are focused on working with those with a disability or aging to achieve their personal goals, while supporting independence and wellbeing. Viva Mutual runs the highly successful RED - Rapid Enterprise Development program supporting the formation of new business ventures by individuals registered with NDIS.
Bilbie XR Labs
Bilbie XR Labs, a social enterprise, dedicated to the reimagining of the traditional homelands, campsites, significant sites, hunting and gathering places, spiritual space where our cities and towns now exist. Key to their mission is the creation of an INDIGIVERSE - an interactive and immersive 'digital twin' that shows significant sites of the original custodians - in essence, a portal transporting users to historical sites in a virtual heritage dreamtime.
Mid Murray Landcare SA & River Murray International Dark Sky Reserve
Mid Murray Landcare SA is a community-based organisation that works collaboratively with the local community, environmental groups, Riverland & Murraylands Landscape Board, the Mid Murray Council to achieve on ground projects to benefit the environment and wider community.
Bedford
Bedford Group are the second largest employer for people with disability in Australia, providing a holistic range of NDIS services for 1500 clients across 19 sites in South Australia. For over 70 years, Bedford has been providing meaningful employment that builds independence, skills, team work, growth opportunities and adds value to the lives of clients in four key areas – hospitality, packaging, manufacturing and horticulture and landscaping along with smaller social enterprises in regional South Australia.
Recycle4Change
Recycle4Change (R4C) creates chances for those impacted by the justice system, a cohort typically stigmatised & disadvantaged by their past. Using the same successful formula as Fruit2Work (F2W), R4C widens the cohort of impact by focussing on the employment of females & young people exiting the justice system.
GOGO Foundation
GOGO Foundation seeks to employment opportunities for those who find it difficult to secure work in the job market, with a focus on women.
GOGO is undertaking a new commercial venture – UP by GOGO which is a removalist business startup creating employment opportunities, servicing public, community and corporate housing providers / managers. The enterprise is focused on being part of the circular economy that seeks to reduce waste and optimise reuse.
Musculoskeletal Australia
Musculoskeletal Australia is a national not for profit, consumer focussed organisation with the specific mission to Support people for better musculoskeletal health. MSK Australia’s vision is for the Quality of life of people who have or are at risk of developing musculoskeletal conditions is improved.
MYOB
MYOB is a major ERP platform provide for SMEs in Australia. They help enterprises take care of customers, supply chain, employees, projects, finances, accounting and tax workflows.
Torrens University and the Social Enterprise Hub have established a partnership through which students develop their skills in the use of MYOB, get to apply their skills in the deliver consulting projects involving the use of MYOB to drive automation, process efficiency and business management.
PhenXX
PhenXX is a purpose-driven collective committed to democratizing womb health and well-being, pioneering first-of-its-kind scientific research to support women, menstruators, and their communities. Their mission revolves around being a positive force for healing, discovery, and connection, breaking boundaries to enable new ways of healthy, womb-centric living. With a focus on practical ease, understanding, and self-love, PhenXX strives to create a world where every individual with XX chromosomes is supported in living joyously and freely, promoting vitality and emotional freedom.
Hear from our students
Discover how our Social Enterprise Hub enhances students' work-ready skills and professional development through impactful projects that shape their future careers.
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Being a part of a team at the Social Enterprise Hub meant I could work with students in other faculties or majors, and it gave me personal mentoring that focused on skill and knowledge, as well as career goals.Gabrielle HoppingBachelor of Business (Event Management)
Social Enterprise Hub partners
See how students are meeting challenges with innovative solutions for organisations with a desire to make a difference.
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Viva Mutual
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Hands on Art
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Red Nose
Does your organisation want to partner with us?
If your organisation is social-impact focused, whether you’re a business led by ethics, a not-for-profit organisation, such as a charity or another for-purpose organisation or initiative, we are open to developing a partnership.
Contact us
If you are an industry partner who would like to work with us, please get in touch.
Social Enterprise Hub team
Recent articles
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Ethical Internships: Students Working for Good at the Torrens University Social Enterprise HubThe Benefits of Ethical Internships: Students Working for Good at the Torrens University Social Enterprise Hub. When it comes to building a successful career, one of the best ways to stand out is to complete an internship program before graduation.
3 ways to build an ethical career with Social EnterpriseFor a new generation of business professionals, it’s become even more important to make a positive social impact than it is to make a huge salary.
Why every university is a social enterpriseTorrens University is thrilled to be a major partner of the 2022 Social Enterprise World Forum which will be held in Brisbane, Australia.
Why social impact is important to us
We believe it’s up to all of us to make the world a better place, and our goal is to be a force for good – and to encourage our students to do the same.
We have made a commitment to Be Good, and we belong to the global B Corp movement, an international community of like-minded organisations. As a Certified B Corporation, we meet the highest standards of social and environmental performance and accountability, values we hope to share with you so you carry them into your career.
In support of our commitment to Be Good, The Social Enterprise Hub provides you with an opportunity to contribute to social enterprises and activities and develop skills for a successful career.