The Shopping Centre Council of Australia (SCCA) has awarded $5000 each to Bandu Organisation and Clothing The Gaps for their support of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities through its annual marketing awards program.
The SCCA says the Bandu Organisation was selected by the Charter Hall team for ‘Drawing Us Together’, which celebrated Indigenous storytelling, student creativity, and community connection. Delivered across 18 Charter Hall centres, five First Nations authors contributed stories that reached more than 1,200 students nationwide.
Clothing The Gaps was selected by the team at Melbourne Central following their win with ‘Clothing the Gaps Pop-up Experience’. The centre’s partnership with Aboriginal-owned social enterprise Clothing The Gaps delivered its first-ever pop-up store in an Australian shopping centre, alongside a monumental Shot Tower projection and Melbourne Central’s first Smoking Ceremony and Yarning Circle.
“These projects demonstrate the meaningful role shopping centres can play in supporting and strengthening the communities they serve,” Kirby Rogers, business and operations manager, SCCA, said. “Through initiatives like Drawing Us Together and the Clothing The Gaps Pop-up Experience, we’re seeing shopping centres go beyond retail to create platforms for cultural expression, education and genuine community connection.
“These are the kinds of projects that leave a lasting impact well beyond the centre environment.”
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