Rapid Enterprise Development - RED

12/12/2025

If you identify as living with intellectual disability AND you’re an artist, have a crack at this competition… it’s free to enter and entries close on 16 Jan.

10/12/2025

What an achievement - England’s Turner Art Prize is da bomb!! Congratulations Nnena and we hope that the rest of the art world sits up learns that fostering representation and inclusion brings fresh, exciting artistic expressions!

The Turner Prize, England’s most high-profile art award, has named Nnena Kalu as its 2025 winner. She will take home £25,000 (about $33,300), while the three other shortlisted artists will receive £10,000 ($13,000).⁠
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Kalu is officially the first-ever learning-disabled artist to win the award, which has in past years gone to artists such as Anish Kapoor, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Lubaina Himid. She is also one of the few Black artists ever to have received the prize.⁠
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Born in Glasgow in 1966 to Nigerian parents, Kalu is known for sculptures resembling cocoon-like forms that she strews with videotape, cellophane, and other unconventional materials. Since 1999, Kalu, who is autistic and is largely unable to speak words, has worked with the London-based nonprofit ActionSpace to create her art. Only recently, however, has her work begun to appear in commercial settings, with the London gallery Arcadia Missa taking her on last year.⁠
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Read more: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/nnena-kalu-2025-turner-prize-winner-1234765624/

05/12/2025

Today is the United Nations’ (UN’s) International Volunteer Day, and we celebrate the many volunteers who have contributed to making our Founders' enterprise dreams a reality.

Arthur & Guy and the RED Team, along with our Founders and their families & support persons, thank you all for your generosity in sharing your time, skills, experience and endless passion for making enterprise accessible for all of us with lived experience of disability.

04/12/2025

We couldn’t agree more! Changing the way others speak about us different humans will improve our representation and inclusion. Good on you James Parr, thank you for your advocacy!

02/12/2025

December 3rd is the United Nations' (UN's) *International Day of People with Disability* (IDPwD) and this year, the theme for IDPwD 2025 is *Fostering disability inclusive societies for advancing social progress*.

The theme means we all need to work together to make society fairer and respect the rights of people with disability. International Day of People with Disability - Australia suggests we need to:

- Take away barriers that stop people with disability from joining in.
- Make sure people with disability have the same chances as others.
- Have health care and good education that everyone can use.
- Include people with disability in all parts of life.
- We also need to understand the problems people with disability face. This includes being poor, not being able to find a job, and being treated unfairly.

Share your suggestions for ways for Australian society to become fairer and more respectful of the rights of people with disability.

29/11/2025

A bittersweet time for the RED Community as one of our amazing, practical and multi-talented Founders, Georgia, moves onwards to write the next chapter in her life’s story.

Having pursued her dream and put her heart into Hair Lounge at CBR, building its groundbreaking offer of talented, stylish and neuroaffirming hairdressing, Georgia’s health (it appears) didn’t get the memo 😞.

Demonstrating the ingenuity and resilience of entrepreneurs, Georgia has made some awfully tough decisions and “passed the baton” to Kyra and Sorcha (who is also a valued member of the Rapid Enterprise Development - RED community 🙂).

Our congratulations go to Georgia, her family and the Salon’s team. Your friends at RED are here for you - just sing out ❤️

💜A fond farewell & a happy hello!💜

We are so excited to be welcoming Kyra into the Hair Lounge family. Kyra comes with years of hairdressing experience, and we can't wait to see her skills in action on the salon floor!

As we all know, Georgia has been unwell for a while, and it is now time for her to rest & find her new normal. Hair Lounge would not be the place it is without you - our wonderful clients, and it has been an amazing journey these past 2 years. 💜

Sorcha will still be at Hair Lounge - so a familiar face will always be around! ☺️

We can't wait to see where this next journey takes us all!

23/11/2025

A good explainer of this year’s IDPW on 3 December, or anytime around that date 👏

We have developed an Easy Read version of the United Nations theme for International Day of People with Disability 2025.

This year’s theme is ‘Fostering disability inclusive societies for advancing social progress’.

The theme encourages us all to work together to make society fairer and respect the rights of people with disability.

Find out more at 💻 www.idpwd.com.au/about/about-idpwd/

19/11/2025

Hi RED Community!
Here’s something a bit different, and also fun and with a good purpose.

17/11/2025

The RED Group and many members of the Rapid Enterprise Development - RED thanks everyone involved in securing purposeful employment and thriving futures for the Bedford workforce.
Peter Malinauskas The Disability Trust

14/11/2025

Always a good, inclusive day full of interesting marketing stalls and fun events!

NEXT SATURDAY is the Feast Picnic in the Park!
Picnic in the Park is good for the soul. Big days like this lift mood, strengthen belonging, and remind us we are allowed to take up space together.

If crowds or noise are tricky, plan your day. Check the map, pick a meeting point, and pace yourself. Bring earplugs, sunscreen, a hat and a full water bottle. Take breaks. Use the accessible quiet space if you need to reset. You can come late, leave early, or dip out and come back.

Whitmore Square / Iparrityi, Saturday 22 November 2025, 11 am to 9 pm. Free entry thanks to Experience Adelaide, City of Adelaide and the Adelaide Economic Development Agency. Food trucks and local drops, live music and DJs, Market Hall, the gloriously chaotic Queerlympics, a dog show and space to spread out on the lawn.

If you are bringing kids, older family or someone who is sensory sensitive, the map helps you choose your spot and plan bathroom and shade access. Joy is not one size fits all.

Plan ahead here: https://feast.pulse.ly/fex2jizukz

Be seen, be proud, be in the park.

12/11/2025

If yo’re visiting this year’s BIGGEST KYDX Expo at Mile End on both Friday and Saturday, please pop past & say g’day to the Rapid Enterprise Development - RED Founders in the Marketplace.
We’re very grateful to KJEX (event organisers) for making it possible for these creative and skilled microenterprise entrepreneurs to attend and sell their goods & services ❤️

Come along and support young entrepreneurs at the KYDX Marketplace - Saturday 15 November!

The Marketplace is supported by Rapid Enterprise Development - RED which offers innovative and creative ways to fast-track the development of enterprises created by people with disability.

The RED Program is about developing real employment opportunities by creating an enterprising culture with the disability community ❤️

📆 Fri 14 & Sat 15 November (Marketplace - Saturday Only)
📍 Netball SA Stadium, Mile End
🎟️ FREE Entry
💻 KidsYouthDisabilityExpo.com.au

06/11/2025

Become recognised for being a disability friendly business by learning and earning this credential. It’s free, online so you can do it at your own pace and you can share it with others too.

CheckUP works with partner organisations and health providers to create healthier communities and reduce health inequities through a range of initiatives.