A group of people gathered outdoors in a grassy area, with a young girl and man interacting with a brown goat. The girl is smiling while the man is holding the goat's head, and the goat is sniffing the girl’s hand. Other individuals are in the background, some holding buckets, in a lush, green setting.

Sector consultations

Social Enterprise Australia governance survey

What we heard and next steps

September 2024

Since we launched, our accountability to the social enterprise sector has been done mostly through consultation. This has included co-designs with our subscribers, gathering stakeholder views, convening the Social Enterprise Peaks Group, and attending and convening other groups and networks.

In 2024 we ran a survey to hear stakeholder views on, interests and likely participation in our governance. We wanted to hear from many and different stakeholders to inform the design of our future governance.

This is to share what we heard through the survey, as well as next steps. 

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Stakeholder views

Social Enterprise Development Initiative

November 2023

Social Enterprise Australia was engaged by the Department of Social Services to gather stakeholder views to inform the design of the Social Enterprise Development Initiative (SEDI).

Enormous thanks to all who generously shared their views, experiences and curiosity in others. Stakeholder views were collected through two separate sets of workshops, one for capability-building grants (including 130 people) and one for online education and mentoring (76 people). Follow-up surveys were designed to test agreement on key themes that the department heard in the workshops and wished to explore further. Surveys were received from 358 people for the grants and 211 for online education and mentoring.

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