Community Innovation & Circular Economy for People, Businesses & Communities
Deals Colony helps individuals, businesses, community groups, and organisations turn ideas, skills and resources into innovative projects, ventures, products, services and measurable social, environmental and economic impact.
Have an idea, skill, project, business or challenge? Start where you are, we'll help you find the right next step.
Our Impact
4,000+
Products Sold Through Circular‑Economy Initiatives
1,000+
Community Innovation Projects Delivered — Inclusive Community Solutions
1,000+
Community Members Supported Through Mentoring, Digital Inclusion & Skill Activation
300+
Flexible Career Pathways — Inclusive Employment & Micro‑Enterprises
80,000+
Community Members Engaged Through Social Media Outreach
Choose Your Pathway
You don't have to know exactly where to start. Build something that aligns with your interests, available time, and the impact you want to create.
Whether you want to turn your skills into a flexible career, build a community program, grow your business portfolio, or create meaningful ESG/CSR impact, choose the pathway that fits where you are today.
Australia Circular Innovation Network™
Community Innovation, Venture & Capability-Building Network · 2 Hours a Week
You choose what you want to build. The network helps connect you with the people, projects, partners and resources to move it forward.
Our 2-Hour-a-Week Community Innovation Flywheel helps members co-design, deliver, measure and learn from practical projects — creating evidence, connections and new opportunities along the way. Choose your goal first. Then choose the level of support you need.
SHARE → BUILD → PROVE → GROW
Not sure which level is right for you? Start with the option that matches what you're trying to achieve today. You can explore other pathways as your needs change.
Explore Membership
Founding Member
$14,999 / 2 years
I want to build and scale startups, innovative offerings, and impact-driven initiatives that create sustainable value for people, communities, and the planet. → Build, launch and grow with shared business, technology, marketing and network support. ** Founding member bonus: Access $20,000+ in additional support value across the membership.
CSR/Social Procurement
$29,997/ Demand-Led
My organisation wants to create measurable impact through its spending, partnerships and community investment. I want to strengthen impact, compliance, ESG reporting, and stakeholder engagement while creating positive outcomes for employees, communities, and supply chains.
All memberships include access to our Gift-Economy Exchange Program, a community-powered exchange where members contribute skills, knowledge, resources and opportunities to help others grow while creating shared value across the network..
Explore Gift-Economy Exchange →
One Brand. Many Stories. Zero Waste of Potential.
Shop Community Innovation
Deals & Offers | Buy with Purpose
Reduce • Rethink • Reuse • Repurpose • Recover
As part of our movement for Creating Equal Access to Opportunity, we believe nothing valuable should go to waste, not skills, ideas, knowledge, surplus resources, lived experience, or human potential.
Waste isn't just what goes to landfill. It's untapped potential waiting to create value.
Deals Colony is Australia's circular economy, community innovation, and venture-building platform, connecting buyers, businesses, charities, social enterprises, community organisations, and innovators through sustainable products, community-created solutions, learning opportunities, surplus stock recovery, social procurement initiatives, and impact-driven services.
Through our Trial‑Project™ Framework and 2‑Hour‑a‑Week Community Innovation Model, ideas can be tested through real projects, developed into products and services, and transformed into new opportunities, income streams, community ventures, and measurable impact.
Every purchase, booking, collaboration, and partnership supports local enterprise, skills development, social procurement outcomes, community innovation, waste reduction, circular economy solutions, and Australia's Circular Innovation Network™.
Shop with purpose. Support community innovation. Turn untapped potential into measurable impact.
Discover Australian-made products, circular economy solutions, sustainable services, surplus resources, and community innovation offers from local businesses, social enterprises, community organisations, and emerging ventures.
Local Impact Offers
Testimonial: Trial Project
Laura Adams
Counsellor & Business Owner
Working with Monika was a pleasure from start to finish as part of her Trial project. Once we began working on building my website I changed my mind several times, and Monika took this all in her stride. I would definitely recommend Deals Colony to anyone looking to build a website.
Testimonial: LaunchPad Program
Susan Ehret
Highly recommended! Monika dedicates her vibrant energy and expertise into helping you towards making your own idea become discovered and teaches you with step by step advice and support on how to turn your idea into a business thru the use of social media platforms Thank you so much for your help over the past six weeks and wishing you the best for the future!
Testimonial: Community Skills Workshop
Cato Davis
Creative Retiree
Spend a great Saturday morning with Monika at Happy Hobby Hour workshop. Crochet is fun and easy to do.
Testimonial: Brand & Business Growth
Tanja Vlasoff
Monika is a very passionate lady who is keen to share her experiences and success to help anyone looking to start a business based on their passion. Her kind nature and skills help guide one through the bumpy journey of a starting a new enterprise. Monika is keen to connect people and create opportunities as part of community-connect workshops that may not otherwise be available. I appreciate all she has done and look forward to continuing our entrepreneurial journeys.
Testimonial: Long-Term Supply Partner
Lee Elson
I value our partnership with your business and look forward to continuing this mutually beneficial relationship. Monika's prompt delivery, reliability, and professionalism were outstanding. Her commitment to excellent service made the entire process seamless. A trusted supplier and a pleasure to work with.
Testimonials
Why It Matters
Australia has rising living costs, workforce shortages and growing pressure on businesses, while valuable skills, ideas, resources and community capacity often remain underused.
Deals Colony exists to put that potential to work.
We turn overlooked skills, ideas, surplus resources and real community needs into practical projects, products, services and opportunities that people and organisations can use, buy, support or help develop.
Our model is simple:
Identify an opportunity → Create a project → Test it in the real world → Build value → Reinvest and create the next opportunity.
This is how our Community Innovation Framework, developed through more than 10 years of hands-on experience, works across different areas — from circular products and home services to digital projects, workforce pathways, community programs and new ventures.
We don't believe every opportunity needs to start as a full business or a full-time commitment. Sometimes it starts with a skill, a hobby, an idea, a surplus resource, or a problem that needs solving. A project-based approach provides a practical, low-risk way to test, validate, and grow an opportunity before committing further.
As an Australian social enterprise, 100% of Deals Colony profits are reinvested into creating more opportunities for people and communities to build skills, experience, wellbeing, income pathways and meaningful livelihoods.
The more useful projects we create, the more opportunities we can create.
Start a Project. Build Something Useful. Create the Next Opportunity.
What We Do
From strategy to delivery, we design, implement and measure projects that strengthen ESG, CSR, workforce participation, circular economy outcomes and community wellbeing.
Working alongside businesses, chambers of commerce, charities, schools and local communities, we turn underused skills, ideas and surplus resources into practical community innovation—creating social procurement opportunities that reduce waste, increase participation and create lasting value.
Community Innovation
@Repurpose • Circular Economy Solutions
→ Food waste transformed into new young plants, and garden waste repurposed into Christmas team‑building kits instead of buying new Secret Santa gifts — a zero‑waste community innovation.
Community Programs
@Rethink • Inclusive Supply Chains
→ Surplus stock transformed into Christmas kits, with an NDIS enterprise engaged to prepare kits, co‑design new products and create local employment instead of importing from overseas.
Workforce Innovation Programs
@Regenerate • ESG & CSR Outcomes
→ Repurposed and garden materials transformed into ESG and sustainability educational workshops supporting employee engagement, while donated technology is refurbished by charity and offered to students in need.
Partnerships & Social Procurement
@Rethink • Local Supply Chain Support
→ Holidays Camps are designed to develop life skills, social skills and planet‑positive activities. An environmental charity is engaged to deliver school clean‑up workshops and divert waste from landfill, helping build community connections & partnerships.
Venture Building
@Reuse + Revive • Global Venture Marketplace
→ Existing businesses, products and ideas revived into new community ventures and career pathways. Partnered with a business marketplace to support business retention and expansion of retiring and legacy businesses, creating pathways for first‑time youth and entrepreneurs to get into business.
Why Organisations Choose Deals Colony
Unlike traditional consultants, we don't just provide advice—we work alongside organisations to design, deliver and measure practical community innovation projects.
✔ Practical—not theoretical ✔ Community-led ✔ Technology-enabled ✔ ESG-aligned ✔ Circular by design ✔ Measurable outcomes
Trusted By
Worked with: ✔ Charities & Social Enterprises ✔ Schools ✔ Medical Centres ✔ Chambers of Commerce ✔ Banks, Tech Companies & Governments ✔ Markets & Community Organisations ✔ Small Business Owners ✔ Micro Businesses
Founder Story
My name is Monika Kulshrestha
Deals Colony began with one simple belief:
The world's greatest waste isn't products—it's untapped human potential.
After more than 20 years working across engineering, technology, data, business transformation and community sectors, I saw talented people, valuable skills and great ideas being overlooked every day.
At the same time, I experienced firsthand how rising financial pressures, family responsibilities, career transitions and migration can leave capable people disconnected from meaningful opportunities—often affecting confidence, identity and wellbeing.
Meanwhile, organisations were searching for practical ways to create genuine community impact while meeting their ESG, CSR and social procurement commitments.
That's why I founded Deals Colony.
Today, we help businesses, schools, charities and communities co-design practical projects that transform untapped potential into measurable social, environmental and economic outcomes.
Because when people are given the opportunity to contribute, communities thrive.
Who We Partner With
Three Circles. One Network. Everything we build sits inside one of three circles and increasingly, a fourth.
Choose the pathway that's right for you. Every journey starts with a coffee chat ☕.
Invest in a self-sustaining ecosystem that multiplies community impact.
We don't ask businesses to donate. We help them invest in community innovation that creates measurable value for their business and the communities they serve.
Your partnership helps grow the Deals Colony innovation network by reinvesting into individuals, community organisations, industry collaborations and youth—creating long‑term economic, social and environmental value. Together we’ll expand community‑led innovation projects, support workforce participation and entrepreneurship, build stronger local partnerships, scale measurable ESG outcomes, and create a lasting legacy for future generations through tree‑planting and regenerating local environments.
And we’ll bring this to life through:
✔ Sponsoring a Future Ready Kids™ Program
✔ Hosting a Circular Product Design Workshop
✔ Running an Employee Innovation Day
✔ Delivering an AI for Good Workshop
✔ Bringing people together for a Community High Tea
✔ Showcasing emerging talent through the Future Leaders Forum™
Duration: Tailored to your impact goals
Strategic Impact Partners: A growing corporate partnership layer that makes the whole network self-sustaining — reinvesting into the other three circles so impact keeps compounding, year on year.
How We Work
Most partners blend roles and that’s the design. You can work with us as an individual, an education or community partner, a corporate CSR partner, or a founding partner. We keep it simple with clear governance, measurable reporting and trusted sustainability frameworks.
3. Co-Design & Co-Deliver CSR Program
Let's Design Your Community Innovation & ESG Impact Project
1. Discover — understand your business goals & KPIs. We map what matters and define the outcomes you want.
2. Host Future Innovation Program:
A. Design— set time, budget & deliverables. Clear expectations, no waste, and a project plan that fits.
B. Deliver — activate partners, technology & community. We execute with the right people, tools and support.
C. Measure — create impact stories & ESG data. Real outcomes, social procurement, employee volunteering and circular‑supply‑chain storytelling.
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Planning a team activity → quiz, coffee catch‑up or quick discussion
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Choose your impact → what change you want at the end
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Pick a theme → waste‑free incubation, hackathons, circular gifting, pitch night, awards
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We design the program blueprint → you approve it
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We send your sustainable kit → instructions + impact measurement + circular‑economy materials
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You run it or we deliver → flexible, simple, ready to go
Every person, project, purchase and partnership contributes to the same impact ecosystem.
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Explore Australia's Circular Innovation Network Offerings
Choose the pathway that best matches your goals today. Whether you're exploring an idea, building a portfolio, growing a venture, strengthening your organisation, or creating community impact, our network helps connect you with the people, projects, partners, and resources to move forward. Contribute your skills, knowledge, products, services, or surplus resources through a collaborative network designed to create opportunities, practical solutions, community programs, and circular ventures. Our network evolves with the ideas, skills, and resources shared by members, creating flexible ways to co-create, refine, execute, and grow. Opportunities are shaped by the ideas, skills, and resources available within the network. If a pathway aligns with your goals today, secure your place. Capacity is intentionally limited while we build our AI-powered platform to showcase 10,000 Community Innovation Case Studies and unlock future opportunities for a happier future.
Deals Colony (ABN 51 483 587 949) is a Good Market–approved Australian social enterprise, proudly based in Cashmere, Moreton Bay, QLD, working globally through partnerships and digital delivery.
Finalist - Social Enterprise, Pine Rivers Small Business Awards 2024, 2025 & 2026.
Helping organisations prepare for the future of ESG, community investment and social procurement. Impact reporting aligned with AASB S1 & S2 and UN SDGs, on a GRI-aligned assurance pathway for 2027, with independent academic review planned in 2026.
Building Australia’s Circular Innovation Network — where organisations, communities and individuals create collective impact with a 2‑hours‑a‑week model anyone can join.
Founding Members
Australia's Circular Innovation Network
Biz Buy International
A Global marketplace for business buyers, investors and sellers — building circular acquisition models that reduce waste across the business transfer process.
Yuvin
Helping retailers modernise their tech with data, cloud and AI — repurposing legacy tech infrastructure into circular digital solutions.
Mindful Health Charity
Transforming clinical research into practical wellbeing tools — building the bridge between health data and community impact.
Strategic Partnerships
Australia's Circular Innovation Network
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Sales Funnel & AI Automation
Professional Training and Coaching
A Global Youth Movement for Digital Wellbeing, Online Safety & Innovation
Our Social Impact: Community Innovation Projects
Whether you're building a portfolio, launching a venture, strengthening your community or delivering ESG outcomes, Deals Colony helps turn ideas into measurable impact.
Our projects are tailored to each partner, but they all share one goal: creating measurable community impact.
Passion Led Initiatives
Passion Led Initiatives
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