Become an ACRE regional delivery partner
ACRE is seeking four regional delivery partners for our flagship learning program — with year one fully funded by the Victorian Government (DJSIR).
Expressions of Interest (EOIs) are now open.
Applications close 5:00 pm (AEDT), Monday 12 October 2026.
For a confidential discussion and to find out more, please contact Matt Perfect, Program and Market Development Adviser, at deliverypartners@acre.org.au.
Please enter your details below to receive the EOI application in your inbox.
Are you an organisation working in regional Victoria, interested in learning and development and social enterprise?
Perhaps you’re already working with social enterprise in your community and looking for sustainable and profitable ways to strengthen your local ecosystem?
Or maybe you are delivering learning and development programs locally and interested in expanding your offer with a world class, experiential workshop with cross-sector appeal?
Understanding Social Enterprise
2-DAY ACTION LEARNING ·
50+ REGIONAL DELIVERIES
Developed by the global Social Enterprise Academy and delivered more than 50 times in regional Australia by ACRE. Deeply grounded in place, each workshop is built around the community it runs in — visits to working social enterprises, and challenges participants recognise as their own.
Cross-sector by design, it brings together leaders from local government, business, community and education to learn together and build shared capacity for social enterprise development.
*Evaluation data across deliveries.
“Before these two days I thought I was going to leave the valley — but now I feel like I want to stay and use these new ideas to make things happen here.”
Angela · Alpine Guest House, Bright · Program Participant, RCV Partnership
EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
Your opportunitiy
With support from the Victorian Government, ACRE is seeking four regional delivery partners for an initial three-year term. DJSIR funding covers the up-front costs of establishing the partnership in year one:
Two facilitators
from your organisation, trained by ACRE at the Old Beechworth Gaol.
Two workshop deliveries
in your region, up to 24 participants each, co-facilitated with ACRE toward your accreditation.
All year one fees covered
facilitator training, licensing, codelivery, accreditation and quality assurance.
ACRE delivers its own programs in Hume and is initially seeking four regional delivery partners for Barwon South West, Gippsland, Grampians and Loddon Mallee.
In years two and three, each partner sells and delivers Understanding Social Enterprise under licence from ACRE — a self-sustaining fee-for-service capability in your region.
SEE IT IN PLACE – WATCH THE STORIES
Watch: The Nandaly Hotel
How a town of 45 people reopened its pub as a community-owned enterprise.
Watch: Boom Clunes
How it began, what it brings to Clunes, and where the hourney started.
Watch: FAQs
Thinking about becoming an ACRE Delivery Partner in Victoria? We’ve had some great questions come through since opening our Delivery Partner EOI.
“”The best part of the workshop was that it was experiential. I wasn’t sitting at a table watching slide after slide — I had the chance to hear the stories of others and problem-solve with people I don’t normally work with. That’s what created those sparks and ‘ah-ha’ moments for me.”
Lana de Kort · BOOM CLUNES
Expressions of Interest (EOIs) are now open.
Applications close 5:00 pm (AEDT), Monday 12 October 2026.
For a confidential discussion and to find out more, please contact Matt Perfect, Program and Market Development Adviser, at deliverypartners@acre.org.au.
Please enter your details below to receive the EOI application in your inbox.