SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT
The Sequana Partners team is committed to supporting our clients, staff and the communities in which we live and work. We support a number of programs and initiatives. While financial support is ongoing, we also take opportunities for our team to use their experience and skills to contribute to better community outcomes in a meaningful way.
Our Social Procurement Policy ensures that the procurement and delivery of goods, services and works is conducted in an honest, competitive, fair and transparent manner that provides positive social outcomes whilst delivering value for money. Sequana Partners supports diversity and equality in all aspects of its business and promotes courtesy and respect.
As a business, we are committed to:
- Raising awareness about social objectives, opportunities and impacts among our people, peers and stakeholders
- Creating opportunities for the purchase of goods and services from social benefit suppliers
- Supporting Government Policy and social objectives.
Where applicable, Sequana uses photographic media from a 100% owned and operated Aboriginal multimedia businesses and proofreading and graphic design services from registered providers listed on Supply Nation.
Sports, Diversity and Community
Sequana Partners is a major sponsor of the Darebin Women’s Sport Club, known as the Darebin Falcons.
The Darebin Falcons are a pioneering and iconic sports club for women, girls and gender diverse people.
They are the largest multi-sport club for girls and women in Australia and the first to offer girls and women-only facilities for football and soccer. They are also the only independent, women’s Club in the VFLW, a club with a social justice heart run exclusively by women for women, the largest junior girls soccer program in Victoria and they are great at developing leaders, giving back to the community and having fun – all things that Sequana is passionate about.
Sequana is also strongly committed to supporting the communities in which it lives and works.
We want to recognise and support this club’s long and hard-fought history, its social and community inclusion programs. Our values extend well beyond our physical offices, and right into the many communities in which we operate, and this is just another way of us making a difference in some of those communities.
The Darebin Women’s Sports Club is doing some very important work in removing barriers to sport faced by some of the most vulnerable communities.
We share that passion with the Falcons in providing opportunities for all people to be involved in sport for the physical and mental health benefits.
Our Arts Program
Sequana Partners partnered with renowned gallery LUMAS to develop an arts grant program in July 2020 to support members of the creative community during the coronavirus pandemic.
Seven one-off grants of $4,000 were awarded to artists between July and December 2020, with an exhibition held in April 2021 to showcase the seven unique, original pieces that highlighted water, sustainability and the environment and culminated at this special exhibition in honour of the recipients.
Whilst Sequana Partners operates in the water engineering and infrastructure industry, the team recognises and appreciates the importance of the arts community and made the decision to invest in the creative sector alongside LUMAS Gallery.
LUMAS is all about making art affordable and accessible to people, supporting new and upcoming artists that wouldn’t otherwise get a break at a large commercial gallery.
OUR ARTS PROGRAM
Sequana Partners has partnered with renowned gallery LUMAS to develop an arts grant program to support members of the creative community.
The LUMAS Gallery and Sequana Partners Arts Grant Program is a joint initiative by project management consultancy Sequana Partners and LUMAS Gallery to support and celebrate the creative community, providing artists with funding and a platform to showcase their work.
Whilst Sequana Partners operates in the water engineering and infrastructure industry, the team recognises and appreciates the importance of the arts community and made the decision to invest in the creative sector alongside LUMAS Gallery.
LUMAS is all about making art affordable and accessible to people, supporting new and upcoming artists that wouldn’t otherwise get a break at a large commercial gallery.