Strengthen your social enterprise position with Social Traders certification. It identifies and protects the sector against the growing risk of social washing. Developed in 2017, our certification is world-leading, tailored specifically for the Australian social enterprise sector, and endorsed by the Social Enterprise World Forum. Only Social Traders offers the double badge of certification and verification.
Social enterprises are an innovative breed of business that work to create a fairer and more sustainable world.
Australia’s definition of social enterprise was developed in the 2010 research project Finding Australia’s Social Enterprise Sector (FASES) and has three parts:
The definition covers all legal structures and types of impact – it’s inclusive for all social enterprises delivering public benefit over private gain.