Venus Bay Community Energy Project

In response to local interest in community resilience and in solving the problems with, and threats to, electricity supply in this rural community, the Venus Bay Community Centre coordinated a community energy feasibility study. Ethical Fields provided the economic analysis for the project, and worked with the community to discover how applying community wealth building to their initiative could also economically empower local people and build local wealth.

Partners: Venus Bay Community Centre

Collaborators: Mycelia Renewables, Changing Weather, Federation Uni, Venus Bay Community Energy Feasibility Study Final reports

A Community Wealth Building Business Model for Revolve Your World

Revolve Your World is an innovative circular economy enterprise, seeking to create a regenerative business model that benefits local people and place. Ethical Fields worked with Revolve Your world to explore how they could embed community wealth building principles and strategies within their enterprise.

Partners: Revolve Your World

Upper Hunter Social Enterprise Strategy

This project for the NSW Government developed a Social Enterprise Strategy for the Upper Hunter. The strategy was developed using a mixed approach of interviews with stakeholders within the ecosystem, a global best practice ecosystem scan and review, and developing the model further based on GCSI’s impact enterprise model. The strategy included a theory of changes, a model for the development of the ecosystem based on global best practices and clear implementation recommendations and actions.

Partner: NSW Government – Department of Regional NSW

Collaborators Griffith University – Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation