First Nations business Healthy Dreaming announced as PwC MURRA Boost initiative winner 2022

PwC Australia is proud to award First Nations business Healthy Dreaming this year's winner of the PwC MURRA Boost initiative, which was announced at the 2022 Indigenous Business Month Awards event in Melbourne last night.

Healthy Dreaming is a social, health and community care service, providing culturally safe care and support for community and NDIS participants. As the winner of the PwC MURRA Boost initiative, Healthy Dreaming will be paired up with specialist skills and expertise support from the PwC Australia team to the value of $30,000 to support improved business practices and capacity for future growth.

"We are honoured to receive recognition and we thank PwC Murra Boost award, this is a reward for all our efforts and commitment, this is for our community. We are grateful and also proud as this award gives us the opportunity to grow Healthy Dreaming and enhance our ways of working to fit our community needs," said Jacinta McKenzie Managing Director Healthy Dreaming.

PwC Australia Partner Rosalie Wilkie said, "We are proud to continue our support for Indigenous Business Month through the MURRA Boost initiative. We have been privileged to work with many great Indigenous businesses over what has now been seven years of this award.

"The quality of the applicants this year continues to be extremely high - and this demonstrates the growth in Indigenous businesses.

"This year's winner, Healthy Dreaming, has established an important presence in Port Augusta delivering health care services and support to the community. PwC is looking forward to supporting Healthy Dreaming in the next stage of their growth journey."

PwC Australia CEO Tom Seymour said the partnership with MURRA enables greater connectivity and relationship building with First Nations businesses across the country.

"As a major sponsor of Indigenous Business Month, we're proud to continue our support of the Indigenous business sector through the PwC MURRA Boost initiative. We recognise that the growth and success of First Nations businesses has an important impact on communities, nation building and fostering further economic development and wealth creation for First Nations peoples."

Launched in 2016 and now in its seventh year, the partnership between PwC Australia and the MURRA Indigenous Business Masterclass Program seeks applications from majority-owned Indigenous businesses seeking to strengthen and build their business practices or capacity.

Previous winners of the PwC Murra Boost have been a diverse range of First Nations businesses, including Kakadu Tiny Tots, an Aboriginal clothing store that sources handcrafted designs and artwork from remote communities across the Northern Territory, GWS Engineering & Construction, a family operated business focused in the construction and engineering industries, providing excellent service, quality and reliable workmanship, and Cedrent Enterprises, a vehicle hire company with commercial utes, trucks, vans, buses, 4WD and passenger cars for hire in Adelaide, Alice Springs, Darwin Airport and City and a number of other locations.

Indigenous Business Month runs from 1 October to 31 October and is supported by 33 Creative, MURRA Indigenous Business Master Class Program, Iscariot Media and PwC Australia.

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