Renew Australia works with broader revitalisation and placemaking initiatives to bring towns and mainstreets to life.
We support communities and property owners in making their vacant shops, offices, and buildings available rent free or low cost to artists, creative projects, start-up businesses and community initiatives.
Check the videos below for more on ourprojects and participants around Australia
Revitalising spaces
Renew Australia is a national social enterprise. Our goal is to create opportunities for artists, creatives, and social enterprises, and bring life and activity to streets and towns while doing so.
Our services include:
- Scoping and feasibility studies
- Managed Renew Australia projects
- DIY projects in our Affiliate program
- Consultant services
Our projects:
- promote community renewal,
- increase activity and foot-traffic,
- use specialised contracts and insurance,
- generate opportunities for creative and start-up businesses, not-for-profits, and social enterprises
- compliment, not compete with, local businesses and traders
- are all different - each Renew Project is tailored to needs of the street, precinct, town or city in which it is based
Renew Australia is an apolitical organisation. We’re not part of the government nor do we have an allegiance to any political party. We work alongside government departments and private sector entities such as:
- Economic Development departments,
- Arts and Cultural services,
- City Centre Management teams,
- Council Placemakers,
- Creative Placemakers
- Traders associations
- Property Developers
- Shopping Centres
“We are excited about the contribution that the Renew Wollongong Program can make and its potential to inject new ideas. In conjunction with the existing businesses in the precinct, Renew Wollongong will give residents and visitors alike another good reason to visit.”
– Wollongong City Lord Mayor Councillor Gordon Bradbery AM
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Congratulations to the team at Renew Cassowary Coast and Cassowary Coast Regional Council on this great video showcasing their first shopfront activation in Innisfail.
If you're in the area pop by to see a great range of local artist's work at The FNQ Handmade Collective .
Expressions of Interest are still open wkf.ms/3UTROnP to be a part of Renew Cassowary Coast and the Regional Place Activation Program in regional and remote Queensland.
Lean more www.renewaustralia.org/project/qsbc-regional-place-activation-program
Renew Cassowary Coast is part of the Regional Place Activation Program, a partnership between the Queensland Small Business Commissioner's office and Renew Australia.
#RPAP #smallbusinessfriendly #queenslandsmallbusiness #renewaustralia #renewcassowarycoast #
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The Renew Australia team is clocking off for some R&R and holiday fun. Our office is closed from the 23rd of December to the 7th of January.
Wishing you all a safe and fun holiday season.
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✨ Still searching for the perfect Christmas gift? Why not support local artists and makers this festive season✨
By shopping local, you’re not just finding unique, handcrafted treasures – you’re directly supporting your community’s creatives. Every purchase helps sustain a small business and makes a big difference to someone’s life.
📸 Images from some of the makers from our projects this year:
Rose Mercer Jewellery Artist House of Kindred Artists At Work Cairns Yakal. Ruth Fattal Haute Couture Evora Cove Oz ComiX Lavender and Willow Bat and Hook Co.
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