WHO WE ARE
Goodness Enterprises Limited is a registered charity which provides both food relief services to people experiencing food insecurity, and employment and work skills training opportunities for disadvantaged unemployed people from across the Ipswich region. Accessing 14 tonnes of rescued food per week from supermarkets, SecondBite Food Connect, FoodBank Queensland through our Community Kitchen (which employs 26 unemployed people each year as full time trainees to prepare 2000+ pre-cooked meals for distribution to food insecure and vulnerable households) and our Community Food Coop which provide support and assistance in the form of free fruit and vegetables, bread and dairy products and low cost food hampers to more than 3500 people each week.
The focus of this project is to assist families across the Ipswich West Moreton Region by providing healthy food at a friendly price.
SKILLING QUEENSLANDERS FOR WORK
With funding support through the Queensland Government’s Skilling Queenslanders for Work initiative Tivoli Social Enterprises provides employment and work skills training opportunities to up to 72 long term and/or youth unemployed people each year in either Conservation, Construction, Hospitality, Retail or Business traineeships. Since 2005 we have provided employment for more than 500 unemployed people and have successfully assisted more than 80% of them to transition into ongoing business or trade apprenticeships or other employment.
All trainees are employed full time for 20 weeks during which they also receive formal certified training through our preferred RTO Axiom College, and ongoing support and mentoring to assist them transition into their chosen career.
