2024 National Trailblazer Award Winners

2024 National Trailblazer Award Winners

Congratulations to the following winners!

Social Enterprise Pioneer of the Year: Chatstat

Social Procurement Impact Partnership: Green Connect & Mirvac

Congratulations to all the winners and finalists in the region

Victoria & Tasmania
Social procurement impact partnership of the year
  • Winner: SisterWorks X Yarra Trams
  • Finalists: Assembled Threads/Cacti Conserve X ACCIONA and Bluegum Grounds Maintenance X Hydro Tasmania
Social enterprise pioneer of the year
  • Winner: Soap Aid
  • Finalists: ArtsPay and Conservation Management
Business for good game changer of the year
Certified social enterprise
  • Winner: Sue Boyce - Ability Works Australia
  • Finalists: Roz Campbell - Tsuno and Celeste Norris - The Little Social (powered by Youth Projects)
Business & Government
  • Winner: Francesca Maclean - Yarra Trams
  • Finalists: Tina Eastman - Fredon and Christina Young - Marinus Link
‘S’ in ESG frontrunner of the year
  • Winner: John Holland Group, Hobsons Bay Main Sewer Duplication Project
  • Finalists: Eastern BTA, She Force and IFM Investors

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South Australia & Western Australia
Social procurement impact partnership of the year
  • Winner: Community Corporate & DHS, SA Government
  • Finalist: Redrawn & BHP Group
Social enterprise pioneer of the year
  • Winner: The Fulcrum Agency
  • Finalists: Redrawn and Sunny Spectrum Supports
Business for good game changer of the year
Certified social enterprise
  • Winner: Sarah Gun - GOGO Events
  • Finalists: Sam Hunter - Bedford Group and David Paterson - YMCA

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Queensland & Northern Territory
Social procurement impact partnership of the year
  • Winner: Civil Geotechnical Consultants & Fulton Hogan
  • Finalists: Creating Positive Futures Foundation, yourtown, Qbuild, Lendlease and TradeMutt & CPB Contractors
Social enterprise pioneer of the year
  • Winner: Chatstat
  • Finalists: Substation33 and Creating Positive Futures Foundation
Business for good game changer of the year
Certified social enterprise
  • Winner: Nora Fraser - The Multicultural Professional Network
  • Finalists: Claire Harris - Human Quotient Group and Sonia Brown-Diaz - Yoga on the Inside
Business & Government
  • Winner: Thomas Hilleary - JLL
  • Finalists: Grant Dorrington - Herbert Smith Freehills and Taniqua Smith - City of Moreton Bay

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New South Wales & Australian Capital Territory
Social procurement impact partnership of the year
  • Winner: Green Connect & Mirvac
  • Finalists: Forward Thinking Design & Stockland and Muru Mittigar, Ventia & Transurban
Social enterprise pioneer of the year
  • Winner: The Freedom Hub
  • Finalists: Hotel Etico and Nama Jalu
Business for good game changer of the year
Certified social enterprise
  • Winner: David Burns - Collective Leisure
  • Finalists: Nick Packham - Vivability/Green Hills Bathurst and Irma del Mundo - Brandkind
Business & Government
  • Winner: Katrina Brooks - Mirvac
  • Finalists: Kim Host - Mirvac and Tarah Spencer - Lendlease
‘S’ in ESG frontrunner of the year
  • Winner: Mirvac
  • Finalist: Lion

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