Open for Business - 'Something Concrete' Project Precasting Factory
Beacon’s ‘Something Concrete’ Precasting Factory was officially opened at a ceremony in Kununurra on 27th June 2008. The ’Something Concrete’ project seeks to address the dual issues of Indigenous Youth Unemployment and a lack of Public Housing in the East Kimberley region.
The factory is the key to Stage 2 of the ‘Something Concrete’ project being jointly conducted by the Beacon Foundation and the Shire of Wyndham East Kimberley. It follows the very successful completion of Stage 1 in which 4 precast concrete houses were built using on-site precasting as a joint venture between Beacon and the Wunan Foundation. Three of the houses were built on contract for the WA Department of Housing and Works (DHW). All four are now fully occupied.
Stage 1 focused on building both the four houses, and perhaps more importantly belief that it could be done, in the Trainees themselves as
The Beacon Foundation is a National not-for-profit organisation, that seeks to influence the attitudes and culture of Australians so that each young person develops an independent will to achieve personal success for themselves and their community.
A key strategy of Beacon is to initiate original and innovative projects that demonstrate solutions to youth unemployment and encourage self-help at the local level.
The implementation of these innovative projects relies on the support of local communities and the business community at a local and national level. Businesses providing support to Beacon in terms of funding, services in kind and time fall into two categories
Beacon National Sponsors and Beacon Business Supporters.
Today successful Beacon programs are being replicated around Australia.
Three successful Beacon programs now being implemented in mainland states and territories are No Dole and Real Jobs and Polish.
