Renew Australia provides training, consultancy and support services to business, government and community groups engaged in the creative activation of space. Renew Australia is a trading social enterprise. We sell services to government, business and economic development professionals and use income generated by doing this to subsidise support for community groups and local initiatives. We do not, at this stage, receive any government funding so the support we can provide is dependent on the revenue we can generate.
If you’re after advice, support or guidance some of the services and support we offer include:

Free Guides

This website contains an extensive set of legal resources, practical advice and other support for people trying to initiate their own “Renew” type initiatives. If you are keen to start a project in your local community and looking for where to start this is probably your first port of call. See our DIY Resources section to see what is there and keep checking back as the section is growing all the time.

Project Management 

Renew Australia works with local communities and property owners to help manage Renew type projects on the ground. We are happy to work with communities and property owners around Australia to manage their own “Renew” properties on the ground. Renew Australia can develop, promote and even apply a local approach tailored to the unique challenges and opportunities of any community.

Logistical Support

Often the best solutions to local problems are to be found in local communities but starting a project from scratch can be a daunting and complicated taks. Many Renew type initiatives have floundered under the inability to navigate complex issues like insurance, legal structures, contracts, developing web sites and social media, application forms and FAQs. If you are starting up a project there is no need to reinvent the wheel — Renew Australia can assist by providing some or all of these things so the people working on the project in the local community can concentrate on the local issues and get a project up and running sooner.

Workshops

Renew Australia can work in your local community, your company or your organisation to build up skills and strategies about how to engage and work with creative people. From our experience most communities around Australia have untapped creative potential — they have people within them with transformative ideas, energy and ambitions but all to0 often their initiative is thwarted. Renew Australia can work with you to identify and bring out their creative potential.

Training

Each year Renew Australia will be offering a series of intensive, high level, high quality training opportunities in select locations around Australia. Suitable for local government, economic development professionals, people who work with properties, and leaders in the community, these training opportunities will introduce those people to the thinking and the strategies required to harness creative initiative.