In a nutshell we’re a social enterprise that exists to educate people about the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and inspire action towards them through creativity. Since its launch in February 2019, over 15,000 participants have attended our SDG workshops or purchased our Bead & Proceed Kits. Bead & Proceed has grown to offer tailored SDG workshops and ongoing SDG consulting for businesses interested in growing their impact. To date, we have worked with 50+ businesses and organisations from a range of sectors including councils, universities, professional service firms, schools and other leading businesses in agriculture and tourism sectors.
The Bead & Proceed Kit is our foundational product and kick-started Bead & Proceed. The Kit caters to 7 people and serves as a creative activity to educate participants on the SDGs, each person comes away with a 5-beaded necklace, keyring or bracelet that represents the top 5 SDGs they want to work towards. While users paint and make, they ideate innovative way to achieve their chosen goals and have a tangible tool that anchors their learning. Our Kits are SDG aligned and for every Kit purchased, another is donated to a low decile school or deserving community organisation to help spread SDG awareness.
Global leaders and all UN Member States, including New Zealand, are committed to achieving the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs address the biggest issues facing our society and aim to help make the world a better place - ending poverty, preventing climate change, saving life on land and in our waters and reducing inequality. The problem is, the SDGs are to be achieved by 2030 and there is a lack of awareness and engagement to put them into action. And at the rate we’re going we’re not going to make the deadline in time. In fact, no state in on track to achieving all 17 SDGs.
Bead & Proceed offer a range of SDG engagement and education tools for all industries. Whether you're looking for a fun team building activity, or you want to host your own SDG workshop with your friends and
whanau or perhaps your board needs some SDG up-skilling or maybe you need a creative activation station at your next conference - we have what you need to to kick-start your SDG commitment and take all on the journey. We offer three main packages, including the Bead & Proceed Kit, Bead & Proceed Epic and Bead & Proceed Impact - please see fuller information on each package below. However! We can also tailor a bespoke SDG experience or workshop for your business, event or organisation too AND offer on-going SDG consulting.
We have two different Bead & Proceed Epic workshop options. See here for more details. Our Epics are both a three-hour fully facilitated workshop hosted by Bridget Williams and both workshop have three key parts designed to demystify the SDGs, connect staff to the top 5 SDGs they care about and start the SDG aligning process! You can choose our Creative Epic (with the beads) or our Collaborative Epic (without the beads). Both include an SDG Report, which summarise key insights from the workshop.
This is the ultimate experience for conferences, summits and large-scale events, delivering knowledge, creativity and lasting engagement - it ticks all the boxes! Similar to the Bead & Proceed Epic, it’s also a three-part experience that combines a keynote presentation by founder Bridget Williams, an interactive bead activity and a finish product that captures the impact of the day. Like the sound of our Impact model, read more about the package here!
