Renew Australia works with broader revitalisation and placemaking initiatives to bring towns and mainstreets to life.
We support communities and property owners in making their vacant shops, offices, and buildings available rent free or low cost to artists, creative projects, start-up businesses and community initiatives.
Check the videos below for more on ourprojects and participants around Australia
Revitalising spaces
Renew Australia is a national social enterprise. Our goal is to create opportunities for artists, creatives, and social enterprises, and bring life and activity to streets and towns while doing so.
Our services include:
- Scoping and feasibility studies
- Managed Renew Australia projects
- DIY projects in our Affiliate program
- Consultant services
Our projects:
- promote community renewal,
- increase activity and foot-traffic,
- use specialised contracts and insurance,
- generate opportunities for creative and start-up businesses, not-for-profits, and social enterprises
- compliment, not compete with, local businesses and traders
- are all different - each Renew Project is tailored to needs of the street, precinct, town or city in which it is based
Renew Australia is an apolitical organisation. We’re not part of the government nor do we have an allegiance to any political party. We work alongside government departments and private sector entities such as:
- Economic Development departments,
- Arts and Cultural services,
- City Centre Management teams,
- Council Placemakers,
- Creative Placemakers
- Traders associations
- Property Developers
- Shopping Centres
We at The Lifted Brow found the whole program hugely valuable. As an under-resourced organisation, the space and time that this initiative gave us allowed us to focus on the work, rather than on survival strategies, and we also found great solace in the community that formed of other Docklands Spaces participants.
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📢 Announcing Cohort 2 of the Regional Place Activation Program! 📢
We’re excited to welcome six new Councils who will be bringing vibrant space activation and small business opportunities to their communities across regional and remote Queensland.
Using the Renew Australia model, these Councils will be launching their own 'DIY' activation projects:
- Isaac Regional Council
- Winton Shire Council
- Douglas Shire Council
- Barcaldine Regional Council
- Banana Shire Council
- Charters Towers Regional Council
Learn more about how the Regional Place Activation Program works: www.renewaustralia.org/project/qsbc-regional-place-activation-program
The Regional Place Activation Project is proudly delivered in partnership with the Queensland Small Business Commissioner's office.
#RenewAustralia #QueenslandSmallBusiness
📷 Joju Creative - Renew Cairns alumni.
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A sad goodbye to TiNA who are winding up this year, but not before giving 4 x $4000 grants this month to support emerging and experimental artists in Newcastle, Maitland, Lake Macquarie, Port Stephens and Cessnock.
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🌟Here is our wonderful Renew on Q project manager Sarah Wang talking about the project and activating ‘the bird cage’ for the Wander On Q event put on by Campbelltown City Council, NSW
Wander on Q will be incredible day of food, fun, and festivities happening right on Queen Street, Campbelltown including some exciting events from our amazing participants!
👉 campbelltown.nsw.gov.au/Whats-On/WanderOnQ
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