Collective Leisure – wins Community Based Initiative of the Year Award 2023 through Parks & Leisure NSW/ACT as a ‘business for good’
Collective Leisure CEO, David Burns, with the Parks and Leisure Australia NSW/ACT award for Community Based Initiative of the Year.
Parks and Leisure acknowledges excellence in the industry through its prestigious Awards of Excellence. This year it awarded Collective Leisure the Community Based Initiative of the year NSW/ACT award.
The annual awards recognise the outstanding initiatives and innovative efforts of 'the people behind the places', which promote good use of leisure time for a number of social, environmental and economic benefits to the community.
Collective Leisure is a systems aware social enterprise with a mission to reduce health inequity within our communities. This is summarised in our purpose statement of “enabling well-being without boundaries”.
Unlike traditional for-profit businesses solely focused on maximizing profits for shareholders, social enterprises prioritise generating positive social or environmental impact alongside financial sustainability. They strive to create social value, tackle pressing issues, and bring about positive change in society.
Collective Leisure Chief Executive Officer, David Burns, explains, “We’re passionate about social enterprise and supporting underserved communities to improve their well-being. We would like to thank the PLA NSW/ACT for the recognition of our work with community.”
Collective Leisure was founded in September 2019 and has been steadily growing its impact in NSW with a focus on Western Sydney.
We are leading two solution ecosystems:
WSYD Moving - A whole of system initiative to reduce physical inactivity in Western Sydney.
Path to Potential – As a work integration social enterprise (WISE), we provide training and employment for people from refugee backgrounds in the sport, leisure and physical activity sector.
To support the system change required we co-create initiatives for hard to reach and underserved communities, enabling them to be well-beings and fulfil their greatest potential.
This includes but is not limited to programs for people with disability, seniors, refugees and migrants, low socio-economic groups and people with mental illness.