Tomorrow Makers IGNITE

Driver of Economic Empowerment: Financial Inclusion

Cal Champagne grew up in the Bega Valley and is now creating pathways for young people in the region as Founder and CEO of Grow the Future.

Through regenerative farming and land-based projects, Grow the Future delivers hands-on training, engagement, and employment opportunities for 12–24-year-olds in a supportive, project-based environment, currently operating across a series of urban farms. After helping to establish and manage Green Connect Farm in the Illawarra and working with young people back in the Bega Valley, Cal founded Grow the Future in response to a clear gap in opportunities for local youth.

As the organisation enters its next phase, Cal is developing the Grow the Future Nursery an enterprise arm designed to expand impact. The Nursery will create a welcoming community space while generating employment pathways for young people and supporting a more circular, regenerative future.

Driver of Economic Empowerment: Food Security

Chelsea Goodwin is the founder of Food for Good, a Tasmanian social enterprise addressing food insecurity through practical food education. Drawing on lived experience and her work as a cookbook author, Chelsea recognised that while rising food costs are a major driver of hardship, a lack of basic food literacy often compounds the issue.

Food for Good delivers hands‑on programs that build confidence, reduce food waste and help people cook well for less. Working in partnership with local community organisations, the enterprise reinvests profits to subsidise access for people who need it most. Chelsea’s vision is to scale Food for Good nationally and strengthen long‑term food resilience across Australia.

Driver of Economic Empowerment: Financial Inclusion

Daniel Joinbee is a proud Gunggandji man, descended from the Gunggandji people of Yarrabah, Far North Queensland and the Founder and Managing Director of Gunggandji Aerospace - Australia’s first 100% Aboriginal and veteran‑owned aerospace consultancy.

With over 18 years’ experience as a RAAF Air Traffic Controller across military, government and industry, Daniel established Gunggandji Aerospace as a profit‑for‑purpose business, driven by a simple belief: First Nations Australians belong in every industry shaping the nation’s future, including space.

Through its Raising Horizons program, Daniel is introducing aviation and aerospace to Indigenous students across 29 remote communities in North Queensland. What began with just a handful of students has grown into a program where every participant leaves with aspirations in aviation and aerospace. Daniel is scaling Raising Horizons to expand its reach to more young people on Country.

Driver of Economic Empowerment: Financial Inclusion

Financial Literacy Australia is a social enterprise using accessible technology to improve financial inclusion for people often excluded from traditional financial education - particularly people with disability, jobseekers and those living in regional and remote communities.

Founded by Daniel, a former financial counsellor in regional Victoria, Financial Literacy Australia delivers a national, app-based learning platform designed to be proactive and preventative, rather than crisis driven. The platform supports people to build financial capability at their own pace, shaped around individual goals, and lived circumstances.

Financial Literacy Australia is co-designing its next phase with the communities it serves. It employs jobseekers with disability as paid co-designers to contribute lived expertise, to build skills and create pathways into inclusive, flexible employment.

Driver of Economic Empowerment: Lifelong Learning

2025 AMP Foundation Tomorrow Maker

Boas Language Academy is a social enterprise language school, turning language from a barrier to a connector in regional Australia.

Based in the Albury Wodonga region, Boas delivers immersive, interactive and fun language courses in English and other languages, to children and adults. Uniquely, Boas provides teacher training and employment pathways supporting local language-proficient migrants to become teachers.

Boas celebrates the cultural diversity within regional communities. Boas Founders Kristie Ivone and Sanna Lundmark aim to create cross-community connections, foster a sense of belonging and spotlight multilingualism's transformative power for regional communities.

Driver of Economic Empowerment: Financial Inclusion

2025 AMP Foundation Tomorrow Maker

Obelia Tait is the founder of Inhabit Place, a social enterprise that improves how public spaces are understood and designed by centring lived experience. With more than 25 years’ experience as an architect and urban planner, Obelia established Inhabit Place to create more inclusive and responsive public spaces.

Inhabit Place has engaged more than 500 community members as paid Urban Observers, delivering thousands of hours of place‑based data for governments and place managers. The organisation is now evolving into a scalable social enterprise model that embeds paid participation, training and recognised skills - strengthening financial inclusion and creating accessible pathways to income for people often excluded from traditional employment.

Driver of Economic Empowerment: Food Security

Aqua Ubique is a social enterprise working to improve access to safe drinking water for Australian communities experiencing water insecurity. Recognising that more than two million Australians lack reliable access to safe drinking water with First Nations communities disproportionately affected, Shannon established Aqua Ubique with the belief that water security is fundamental to health and economic participation.

Aqua Ubique installs atmospheric water generators in high‑use community locations, creating safe drinking water directly from the air. Through a commercial lease model with businesses and councils, every five commercial installations fund one community machine via its Drop4Drop program. Since May 2026, more than 40 commercial units and seven community machines have been installed, with Aqua Ubique continuing to scale nationally to support equitable access to safe drinking water for communities most in need.

Driver of Economic Empowerment: Financial Inclusion

2025 AMP Foundation Tomorrow Maker

Split the Profit is a social enterprise using apparel purchasing to fund grassroots sport and drive financial inclusion. Founded by Sharin Milner, a former professional athlete with more than a decade of experience across health promotion and social impact – it was built on a simple but urgent reality: too many people are being priced out of sport.

Split the Profit designs and supplies custom sports and corporate apparel and merchandise at competitive prices, returning 50% of profits directly to local sporting clubs. These funds help reduce participation fees, purchase equipment and support inclusive access to community sport. Following a successful pilot in 2025, Split the Profit aims to return $500,000 annually to grassroots sport by 2029 - helping more people participate, belong and thrive.

Its purpose is clear: an Australia where community sport is never out of reach and where every apparel purchase creates sustainable funding for clubs and ensures no one is left behind.