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Douglas Partners

Douglas Partners provides integrated practical solutions for projects interacting with the Earth’s surface with expertise spanning environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, groundwater, rock mechanics, geophysics, and materials testing.

Leveraging 60 years of experience from over 130,000 projects, our skilled team offers innovative advice and tailored solutions across diverse industries, including approvals for childcare centres.

We offer comprehensive contaminated land management solutions, utilising advanced technologies and methodologies to assess, remediate, and manage environmental challenges effectively. Our team of environmental engineers, scientists, hydrogeologists, and auditors guide clients through complex regulatory landscapes ensuring compliance throughout the project lifecycle, effectively managing environmental risks and safeguarding both public health and ecosystems.

Visit our website today to learn more about our services and completed projects: www.douglaspartners.com.au/expertise/environmental/

OWNA

OWNA is Australia’s Favourite All-In-One Childcare Management System, encompassing all of the functions you need to run your education and care services.

By keeping everything in one place, OWNA helps childcare leaders improve efficiency, and multi-site providers can get transparency across all of their centres. OWNA’s best-in-class software is backed by our amazing support team, many of whom have a background in the sector.

We endeavour not only to provide the best service through our software, but to truly understand your organisation and partner with you on your journey to provide better quality education and care to your communities.

Aaron Group

Aarons Group (AG) is your comprehensive turnkey service provider for the childcare sector. Our expertise spans construction, renovations, playscapes and facilities maintenance, addressing the distinct operational requirements for every childcare facility. From conceptualisation to realisation, AG and its collaborators meticulously plan and execute the construction of new childcare centres, prioritising safety, functionality and creativity at every stage. We also excel in renovating and upgrading existing facilities. With our in-house AILA accredited Landscape Architect who’s specialty is Play, we are experts in playscape design and construction, producing outdoor play spaces that will enrich children’s learning and recreational environment.

With a dedicated Facilities Maintenance team overseeing both scheduled and reactive maintenance, we ensure the smooth and secure operation of childcare centres, promoting a safe and enjoyable atmosphere for both children and caregivers.

Learn more: aaronsplayscapes.au

Z Staffing

Learn more: zstaffing.com.au

Wearthy

Learn more: wearthy.co

Childcare Centre Loan

Finexia Financial group is a diversified financial services business with an acute focus on private credit and asset/funds management. Via our Childcare Income Fund, we provide fully secured loans to established, experienced Childcare operators to construct, and/or open and trade-up childcare centres. For Childcare businesses, it offers a single loan facility to fund the soft and hard costs of the business including fit-out, marketing, staff costs and loan interest for the full trade-up period. For Childcare centre construction, we also offer a typical construction finance facility.

Learn more: finexia.com.au

Point Architects

Learn more: pointarchitects.com.au

Step 4

Step4 is an Australian, family owned and operated service provider to Early Learning Centres Australia wide.

At Step4, we specialise in bespoke learning environments through inspiration, innovation, and engagement. With a long history in furniture design and customisation, we have the knowledge and experience to deliver your vision through our Explore – Design – Deliver philosophy and process. This philosophy has helped bring to life over a thousand new centres across Australia over the past 20 years.

Explore – Step4 engages collaboratively with you and your team to explore what success looks like with the interior room design and furniture layout of your new centre project.

Design – Creativity and visualisation bring the project to life, turning curiosity into considered and practical design. Our in-house designers provide room layouts and 3D renders to enable you to visualise your centre.

Deliver – Let us take the stress out of managing multiple contractors and suppliers as we deliver, install, and oversee the setup of your learning spaces.

Brooks Australia

Learn more: brooks.com.au

Starex

Our Australian Story

Starex have been designing and crafting premium quality furniture for the ECE market in New Zealand for the past 40 years. Our first adventure working with Australian clients came about in 2017, when we had the pleasure of working with a Melbourne based service on a full Centre fitout. From there, we have experienced consistent demand for our furniture from Centres all around Australia (including Perth, Queensland, NSW, ACT, Northern Territory & Tasmania) and have loved working with each and every one of them! Our Australian clients choose Starex because of our quality and for that something different.

Being based in New Zealand has meant we’ve only been able to offer container deliveries full of Starex furniture up to now for Australian clients, however, with the demand for our product, we knew we had to look at other options to ensure you, our valued Australian centres can easily purchase and have pieces of Starex furniture delivered for your Centre!

We now have distribution bases in Australia and we’re shipping furniture orders both big and small from there! It is a great privilege to have shipped containers full of furniture from right next door in New Zealand, to now being a part of your community and we are so excited for you to experience the quality of our furniture in your centre. Once you choose Starex, you won’t go back to the status quo! We LOVE what we do and look forward to working with you!

Learn more: starex.com.au