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Our companies and partners

From grassroots organisations to international service providers across Australia, Canada, Italy, Singapore, Sweden, and the UK.

AKG

Our unique business partnership model is founded on collaborations with international, national and local organisations (mainly not-for-profits) across employment services, wellbeing and health, education and training, and community development.

Our purpose is to empower people and the communities we work with everyday. We achieve this through our extensive global network, our consultant’s skills and lived experience and commitment to our purpose.

About AKG

AngusKnight Pty Ltd (AKG) is a proudly profit for purpose, privately owned company. It was co-founded more than 30 years ago by Duncan Angus, a ‘boy from the bush’ who experienced his own challenges in finding meaningful training and employment.

Duncan created with the belief that compassion, experience and skill development empowers people to make their lives and communities better. Today, all of us at AKG remain true to its purpose: to empower the people and communities we work with everyday.

AKG provides services in four key areas

Employment

Comprehensive support focused on the needs of job seekers, employers and communities to help people find long-term, meaningful jobs.

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Wellbeing and Health

We understand that every client is a unique individual, living a life with all sorts of dimensions – not just someone who needs a job.

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Education and training

Our education and training is vocational, bespoke, flexible – we provide people with the skills they need for the jobs they want.

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Communities

We run responsive programs to develop employment pathways, local business enterprises and community infrastructure.

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AKG Employment

Jobfind Centres Australia

Jobfind Centres Australia connects job seekers with employment opportunities that are in demand in their local area, while also supporting individuals with training, wellbeing, and post-employment support. By doing so, Jobfind contributes to building a more skilled and diverse Australian workforce.

Since 1998, Jobfind has been entrusted by the Australian Government to deliver personalised and high quality employment services to individuals and employers. Jobfind currently delivers Workforce Australia, Transition to Work, Career Transition Assistance, Employability Skills Training, ParentsNext, Time to Work, NDIS and Disability Employment Services.

Jobfind’s key focus is on assisting people experiencing high socio-economic disadvantage to access stable and sustainable employment – including the long-term unemployed, people living with disability, First Nations, young and mature-aged people.

Jobfind services also include Healthfind, its unique allied health offering available to job seekers, especially those facing mental health challenges.

Jobfind Sverige

Jobfind Sverige is the Swedish employment services subsidiary of AKG, supporting and educating people out of unemployment.

We are delivering KROM (Kundwal Rusta och Matcha) IPSU (Individual Pedadogical support in Education), STA (Steps to Work) and ACM (Coaching and Matching) on behalf of the Swedish Government. These programs are for people, some of whom may have special needs through injury, long-term illness or disability, who are registered with the Swedish Public Employment Service and who are in need of individually adapted support for job or education. We provide tailor-made individual assistance to help with job hunting, applications and documents, study and career guidance, study visits and training and workshops, career needs mapping and vocational and motivational training. Some of these programs utilise specialists such as occupational therapists, audiologists and vision specialists, staff with sign skills and special educators. We also work closely with employers and broker contacts between employers and job seekers.

uLaunch

uLaunch partners with people living with disability, illness and injury to co-create new pathways to fulfilling and meaningful employment. We believe that people living with a disability deserve every opportunity to live a self-determined strong life of confidence and pride, thriving in their community.

Real Futures

Real Futures is a leader in creating real change and real growth for Australia’s First Nations peoples through its delivery of Disability Employment Services (DES), Workforce Australia Transition to Work Program (TtW), Get Ready (Pre-employment Training), Cultural Safety Training, Tailored non-vocational training and workshops, The Momentum Program, and the Community Development Program (CDP) to provide high-quality training and employment in regional and remote Australia.

Certified by Supply Nation as a majority-owned Indigenous company, Real Futures is led by an Indigenous Chair and Indigenous CEO, with around 90% of its employees identifying as Indigenous Australians. AngusKnight Pty Ltd is a proud minority shareholder.

Real Futures is also partnering with UN Women to host the Women’s Business: 2nd Chance (WBSC) Hub, a ground-breaking pilot program in Western Sydney that aims to ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women have access to opportunities for quality learning, entrepreneurship and employment outcomes through education and vocational training.

Jobs 22

Jobs 22 is an innovative joint venture founded by Angus Knight and Catch22, a not-for-profit social business based in the UK.

Jobs 22 represents a new breed of employability provider in the UK, reflecting the depth of experience and strong social values of its partners to provide a compassionate and commercial approach to getting people back to work.

The company is contracted to deliver services to 110,000 unemployed clients as part of the Restart Scheme for the UK Department for Work & Pensions. Jobs 22 also provides careers information, advice and guidance as part of the National Careers Service.

AKG Singapore

AKG Singapore is leading provider of employment and health and wellbeing services. We work with both government and businesses to promote physical, mental and social wellbeing. Whether that’s providing interventions to improve health outcomes for specific populations, or helping companies keep their employees healthy and productive.

Within employment AKG Singapore delivers Career Matching Programme (CMP)  on behalf of Workforce Singapore (WSG), career planning and Career Transition Services.

AKG Italy

AKG Italia provides tailored support to unemployed people 16 – 64 years of age in Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna and Lazio through the Guaranteed Employability of Workers (GOL) scheme on behalf of the Italian National Agency for Active Labor Policies (ANPAL). In Lombardy we also provide tailored support to unemployed men aged 30 -54 through Dote Unica Lavoro (DUL).

AKG Canada

In British Columbia, we are proud to partner with the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction to deliver Employment Services in five catchment areas and nine locations.

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Intuitive Thinking Skills

Intuitive Thinking Skills in the UK has over eighteen years of experience delivering cutting edge education that empowers people to take independent action through self-determination on issues that affect us all. The teams at Intuitive Thinking Skills have become a model of excellence in peer led education that lends itself to partnership models committed to progressive and joined up working.

Intuitive Thinking Skills “empower people through education to take back control of their lives”, using their unique approach to developing knowledge and thinking tools. Intuitive Thinking Skills sees people’s lived experience as an asset, a place where people draw experience, knowledge, strength, and skills that when properly redirected become highly resourceful problem-solving tools.
Intuitive Thinking Skills work effectively across sectors including criminal justice, drugs and alcohol, employment, mental health and wellbeing, domestic abuse, and homelessness through our educational approach to:

Resilience
Recovery
Recruitment
Rehabilitation
Relationships

Healthfind (UK and Australia)

Healthfind UK and Healthfind in Australia support people searching for employment, with health supports. This gives them opportunities to make changes, set goals, and access services and the help they need to lead healthier balanced lives. Our teams comprise highly qualified and accredited health coaches,  experienced and compassionate in supporting candidates into their journey to work. Our diverse team includes clinical practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds, skilled in addressing the physical and mental health barriers that research proves hold people back.

AKG Singapore

AKG Singapore delivers Healthy Workplace Ecosystems (HWE) on behalf of Health Promotion Board, and School-Health Promotion Service (BHPS). HWE partners with landlords and developers to bring healthier food options, complimentary exercise sessions, educational workshops and health screenings to workers and tenants both in sites and virtually. We aim to make health services accessible, affordable and available to all, in effort to build a Healthy Workplace Ecosystem within the nation. The School-Health Promotion Service is an initiative aimed at increasing the reach and depth of health promotion programs in mainstream schools and preschools to influence health outcomes of our school-going children and youth. As an appointed partner of HPB’s School Health Outreach Division since 2023, we work closely with schools across Singapore to engage our students in the formation of healthy habits and behaviors.

AKG Education

VFA Learning

AKG is dedicated to empowering people by equipping them with the skills they need for the jobs they want. AKG makes access to training easy and cost effective for both people and businesses, working with students and employers every day to help unlock government funding programs where possible.

AKG owns VFA Learning (RTO #22360) one of Australia’s leading registered training organisations providing over 60 certificate, diploma and short courses in face-to-face and online environments across a wide cross section of industries, throughout Australia.

AKG has the unique ability to link training with potential employers, opening up a range of placement and employment prospects for AKI students.

Learn+Us (UK)

An accredited UK learning provider offering funded and unfunded qualifications and apprenticeships in Childcare, Early Years Education, Hairdressing, and Beauty for individuals and businesses across London and England. It is 100% owned by Angus Knight.

AKG Communities

RISE Ventures

RISE (Remote Indigenous Sustainable Enterprises) is a provider of the Australian Government’s Community Development Program (CDP) in Katherine, Northern Territory, and in Kowanyama/ Pormpuraaw, Queensland.

The company provides training and employment pathways for local people as well as developing business enterprises for long-term employment and economic impact. Through consultation with traditional owners and local organisations in each region, RISE Ventures identifies activities that engage communities and youth, provide training and employment, build local capacity and enhance community life.

RISE Ventures is 100% owned by Angus Knight.

RN Employment Services

RN Employment Services (formerly Rise Ngurratjuta) is a joint venture between RISE Ventures and Ngurratjuta/Pmara Ntjarra Aboriginal Corporation (a registered not-for-profit). The partnership was forged out of a meeting of values and goals to bring quality services and better outcomes to the local people of the region.

RN Employment Services provides Community Development Program (CDP) participants in the Southwest Alice, North and Barkly regions of the Northern Territory with skills and opportunities for training and employment, as well as building leadership skills in young people, nurturing small business enterprises and supporting social infrastructure.

Nyirrunggulung-Rise

Nyirrunggulung-Rise is a joint venture between the Jawoyn Association Aboriginal Corporation (a registered charity) and RISE Ventures, delivering the Community Development Program (CDP) in the central Arnhem region of the Northern Territory, including Beswick, Barunga, Binjai, Bulman and Manyallaluk.

Nyirrunggulung means ‘working together’ and Nyirrunggulung-Rise creates job opportunities, provides training and supports social infrastructure, building community hubs to nurture small business enterprises.

RISE Community Art

RISE Community Art provides an e-commerce marketplace for First Nations artists in remote Australia to showcase and sell their art, with 100% of all sales revenue received by the artist. RISE Community Art is a registered charity.

Partnerships are our business

AKG businesses also have extensive partnerships with government, employers, industry and community organisations, and we are always looking for productive ways to work together with others.

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AUSTRALIA

Head Office
Level 2, Suite 1, 10 Bridge Street
Sydney NSW 2000
+61 2 9259 5555

CANADA

33 Bloor Street E, Suite 504
Toronto Ontario
Canada  M4W 3H1

ITALY

3962 Corso di Porta Romana, 122
20122 Milano (Ml)
Italia
+39 2 5002 0902

SINGAPORE

1 Gateway Drive #11-02
Westgate Tower
Singapore 608531
+65 6817 6049

SWEDEN

Köpmangatan 5,
151 71 Södertälje,
Sweden Scandinavia
+46 7 3761 7593

UNITED KINGDOM

249 Silbury Boulevard
Milton Keynes
Buckinghamshire MK9 1NA
+44 33 3242 2222