Lake Macquarie Business Excellence Awards Finalists!

We're thrilled to bits

The Place has been announced as a Finalist in the Excellence in Social Enterprise category of the 2019 Lake Macquarie Business Excellence Awards. This is very exciting as this is our first nomination in this category for the LMBEA, and testament to The Place as an organisation that has been successfully operating as a Social Enterprise since we began in 2011.

Winners of the Lake Macquarie Business Excellence Awards will be announced at the Awards Function on 12 July 2019 at Belmont 16s.


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