STREAT Launches 6-Year LikeWISE Pilot to Back Up to 9 Social Enterprises

1 articles · Updated · cbdnews.com.au · Aug 10

Queen Victoria Market will host STREAT’s six-year LikeWISE pilot, which aims to test whether stronger social-enterprise businesses can deliver better job outcomes for people facing barriers to work.
Three inaugural participants—Purpose Precinct, Killara Foundation and WomenCAN Australia—will share infrastructure, peer learning, enterprise support and collaborative trading under a matched-trading model.
Up to nine Work Integration Social Enterprises are set to join over the program’s life, building on STREAT’s Purpose Precinct at the market and using the site’s heavy foot traffic as a live testing ground.
The University of Melbourne’s Melbourne Social Equity Institute will study the program over six years to assess its impact and whether the model can be replicated more broadly.