Ignite: Small Business Support

Who we are

We support individuals with an idea for self-employment. We help build capability, create connections and provide customised support for people who may experience barriers to accessing business support.

Ignite’s mission is to help build capability, improve social cohesion and create economic participation for the communities we serve. These communities include women from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds, women with disability, First nations women and women with low incomes or who are unemployed.

The Ignite team consists of experienced, trauma-informed case managers, successful business coaches, several mentors with prior and lived experience of disability, displacement and intersectional barriers as well as experienced social impact practitioners.

SSI is a national not-for-profit organisation providing dedicated human and social services to a diverse Australia. SSI supports individuals, children, families and communities via a range of vital human services, from settlement support of newcomers and refugees, through to programs in employment and education, and health, wellbeing and social supports for all Australians, new and old.

What we do

Through a combination of skills building, networking and 1:1 mentorship, clients are provided with choice and options that are flexible to meet their capability and capacity.

We fulfil a gap that is left by mainstream supports, for customised solutions and pathways that can assist people with language barriers, complex barriers due to disability, barriers around parenting commitments, financial and social barriers to participation.