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4 September 2026 Jamie Meyer

Partner with ACRE to grow social enterprise knowledge and practice in your region

ACRE is seeking four delivery partners in regional Victoria for our flagship Understanding Social Enterprise program, with year one fully funded by the Victorian Government (DJSIR).

Developed by the global Social Enterprise Academy and delivered more than 50 times across rural and regional Australia by ACRE, the program builds practical social enterprise capability through learning grounded in local communities.

ACRE delivers the program across Hume and is now seeking regional delivery partners for Barwon South West, Gippsland, Grampians and Loddon Mallee.

Selected partners will receive fully funded facilitator training at the Old Beechworth Gaol, two co-delivered workshops toward accreditation, and year-one licensing and quality assurance costs covered.

 

To support the process, ACRE has engaged the services of Matt Perfect as a Program and Market Development Adviser, helping to evolve our national place-based delivery partner model and take the next step in our growth.

Matt is already well known to our team and many of our partners as an Associate Facilitator across our Social Enterprise Academy programs, including Understanding Social Enterprise and Social Enterprise Schools.

Matt’s deep product knowledge, combined with his commercial expertise in negotiation and partnerships strategy makes him an obvious choice to help us in the next phase of our growth.

If your organisation is already engaged in social enterprise, or delivers learning and development and is looking to expand its offer, we’d love to hear from you.

 

EOI opens September

Find out more: acre.org.au/deliverypartners

Contact Matt Perfect at deliverypartners@acre.org.au for a confidential conversation.