Our Impact

start-up a development project that represents the next stage in the business’s journey from establishment to sustainable operation. Jimaylya was created to deliver practical civil and concrete services while creating real employment opportunities within the construction sector. Like many emerging Aboriginal businesses, Jimaylya has experienced early challenges, including limited start-up capital, inconsistent work, and the pressures of entering a competitive industry. These challenges have strengthened the business, built resilience, and shaped a clear direction forward.
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The Blooming project marks the point where Jimaylya is ready to grow with purpose. Funding will be used to strengthen core operational capability, improve mobilisation, and support workforce readiness so the business can deliver works consistently across urban, regional, and remote Northern Territory projects. This will allow Jimaylya to move from short-term, ad-hoc subcontracting to more reliable and repeat work opportunities.
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The project supports the delivery of civil works including excavation, formwork, steel fixing, concrete pours, and site preparation, while creating paid employment and pathways from training into real jobs. Blooming reflects steady growth built on experience where early lessons translate into capability, reliability, and long-term business sustainability within the NT construction industry.

ensure we have the right tools to complete the jobs that we have been invited to tender for and ensuring we are up to standard for those jobs with regard to our competitors. It will help us ensure that when we win more work, we can spread the logistics better and ensure we remain on program for the builders.
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It will also ensure we have sophisticated tools to quote the jobs and enable multiple people in the business to be able to do this, meaning we can quote for more work.
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We will be using the funding for business development, growth and in the completion of the jobs we have been asked to quote for by other builders. It will help us establish ourselves more professionally.

develop and deliver structured, culturally grounded mentoring and leadership programs through Motlop Mentors. Funding will be used to create program resources and session plans, build the skills of mentors and facilitators, improve business systems and administration, cover program delivery costs such as travel and facilitator time, and develop marketing materials to support partnerships and fee-for-service opportunities. Overall, this project will allow Motlop Mentors to move from one-off program delivery to a scalable, sustainable model that generates long-term income, employment opportunities, and positive outcomes for participants and communities.

support the early development of PrintshopNT’s efficiency and employee pool, by financing an automated screenprinting machine (with the required training), printer and wage costs for a pool of casual, Aboriginal screenprinters from regional and remote art centres and communities throughout the Northern Territory

help us start our cultural tours in time for the upcoming tourism season. One of our biggest needs is a reliable vehicle to safely carry visitors and workers on our tours. This will help us run guided trips that share Tiwi culture and Country.
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We also need support with other important start-up costs so we can get going straight away. This includes things like insurance, operational materials, safety gear, and basic tools we need to run safe, professional, and culturally respectful tours and to run our business.
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This funding will help our corporation get on its feet so we can start earning income, create meaningful jobs for our people on Country, and grow a strong money story through our tours. It gives us the support we need to build a strong future. We are stronger together, and this will help our whole community grow.

invest in an excavator as our first investment of plant and equipment for wet hire on civil construction, mining and major projects across the Darwin Region.
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Plant and equipment wet hire will diversify our revenue stream and in turn increase our profit margins for continual growth and employment and training opportunities for Indigenous people.
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As we continue to expand and procure specialised plant and equipment, we are developing our capabilities in:
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• Civil construction wet hire with experienced and trainee operators
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• Site preparation and earthworks
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• Infrastructure support services

purchase the therapy rooms at Raffles Plaza where I currently rent one space out of 4 offices in suite 3. At present, I share this room with my Clinical Masters student, which significantly limits availability and creates scheduling conflicts. As a result, I am forced to take on additional outreach work to meet client needs, reducing efficiency and time spent delivering care from a central, safe, and culturally grounded space.
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The current owner of suite 3, is supportive of Aboriginal-led healing and has offered all rooms at fair market value to allow me the opportunity to grow Healing Circle Mob into a full-time practice hub. However, high rental costs make it financially unviable to expand under the current lease model.
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Owning the space would allow for expanded service delivery including supervision, group therapy, and professional training while embedding trauma-informed, culturally safe, neurodevelopmentally affirming care. This expansion would improve access for Aboriginal families, reduce wait times, and create opportunities for Aboriginal employment and training.
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The grant would enable Healing Circle Mob to scale sustainably, reduce overheads, and become a self-sufficient, community-led practice that supports vulnerable clients and grows the Territory’s Aboriginal mental health workforce.