101
101 is a series of lessons and also practical sessions delivered in partnership with the team from Pure Advice and mentors from the Purpose Advisers network. Sessions are held virtually, at Sydney CBD offices, on-site with impact partner charities including at sites in inner Sydney and the Central Coast. The financial advice group also helps support financial literacy programs by running people through a budgeting process and also helping them understand their payslip, how tax and investing works and also their superannuation. The program has expanded to include support to vulnerable families and allow participants to overcome anxiety about money, as well as identify their biggest expenses and what could happen if they considered changing certain behaviours. Onsite visits also include group mentors providing pro-bono tax clinics (processing tax returns pro bono), provided to families recovering from trauma and in particular, domestic violence.
Alaya
Alaya aspires in the long term to build a national network of off-grid cabins and immersive experiences in nature. The social enterprise have operated SOH training pilot programs in New South Wales and Queensland. The group is now focusing primarily on a flagship property on the New South Wales, Central Coast, to act as a show case for the many partners already keen to host cabins around the country.
Vessel
Vessel is working with partners around the country, restoring beautiful vehicles. Finding ways to convert classic cars to EV whilst retaining the ability to return them to original factory condition. Currently offering Hope Sessions to SOH trainees to visit workshops and learn about the process. With the aspiration to work with partners to provide world class training and offer full and part-time employment roles in the future, when kit currently being developed are available.
Re:store Power
Re:store Power (is a pilot project we have seed funded) that hopes to create a new pathway in the industry that re-purposes batteries and decentralises the way energy works for communities located outside of metropolitan areas.
This program has invested in network partners, to secure access to an ongoing supply of batteries that may otherwise be bound for landfill. Instead they can be turned into a training program, where individual cells are removed, tested and repurposed into practical (often modular) storage systems, for communities to reduce their carbon foot print and to cope with the energy crisis that is slowing Australia's transition to clean energy - especially in rural, remote and marginalised communities
