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Media coverage - ABC: Toby Hall talks social enterprise |
| 29 August 2011 |
 On Saturday morning Mission Australia CEO Toby Hall joined Tony Vinson, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney on Saturday Extra to discuss the potential of social enterprises.Social enterprises are businesses with social goals, such as helping people who are disadvantaged and long-term unemployed into the workforce. “Social enterprises are about getting highly disadvantaged people into the workforce,” Mr Hall said. What we’re trying to do is get people ready for a job. Mr Hall spoke of Mission Australia social enterprises such as Mission Australia’s Charcoal Lane restaurant program in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, which is achieving good results for young people from highly disadvantaged communities. Seventy per cent of the young people who have trained at Charcoal Lane have moved on to employment and another 20 per cent have gone on to engage in further training. “If you can imagine growing up in a community where mum and dad and your aunties and uncles have never worked, you have no context of work,” Mr Hall said. “You haven’t got a family to fall back on to say how that works. It’s almost alien to you.” Mr Hall went on to say that social enterprises such as Charcoal Lane, as well as our Big Heart recycling business in the Illawarra and Urban Renewal, our landscaping and construction enterprise in Victoria, are designed to expose disadvantaged people to normal working conditions in a safe, supported environment – and one that allows them to make mistakes they can learn from. Listen to ‘Saturday Extra’, presented by Joe Gelonesi on 27 August 2011, ABC Radio National   |
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