cape solutions is a newly formed brand resulting from the merger of Nadrasca and Brite, two certified social enterprises with a combined 120 years of providing supply chain logistics services across the eastern and northern suburbs. BRITE Services
Located in Broadmeadows, Victoria, BRITE Services is an Australian Disability Enterprise (ADE) employing over 143 people in a supported workplace operating accross three main business units: BRITE Pak, BRITE Plants and the BRITE Herb Farm, as well as the BRITE Training Centre. A not-for-profit organisation with a proud history of providing training and supported employment services to people with a disability (primarily intellectual disabilities). BRITE is quality assured under FaHCSIA’s 12 Disability Service Standards and the supported employees at BRITE are constant contributors to the continuous improvement of their workplace. High quality product and service standards ensure BRITE's commercial customers and community partners of our commitment to ‘quality’ in all that we do. WHAT WE OFFER
BRITE Pak
Offers quality, competitively priced sub-contract assembly and packaging services, as well as clean-room packing, blister sealing and plastic blister manufacture. Pak Servcies on offer:
• Component assembly
• Trade and show-bag fulfillment
• Labeling
• Rectification and rework
• Blister card sealing
• Decanting
• Blister manufacturing
• Packing
• Pick, pack and despatch
• Assembly
• Labeling
• Clean-room packing
• Third party warehousing
• Shrink wrapping
• Blister Pack Manufacture
BRITE Plants
A wholesale nursery providing its customers with quality plants from tube stock to established trees and shrubs. Customers include retail nurseries, other wholesale nurseries, landscapers, builders and councils. BRITE Plants offer:
• Native and indigenous plants and shrubs
• Exotic varieties
• Grasses
• Structural plants suitable for landscaping .
• Ornamental trees
• Fruit trees
• Hardy trees suitable for street scapeing
• Contract growing
• Consultancy services
BRITE Herb Farm and BRITE Training Centre
In 2012 BRITE successfully applied for a funding to create a Herb Farm within the BRITE Plants Nursery complex. LOCAL SOLUTIONS FUND
Being recipients in Round Two of the Local Solutions Fund, a federal government funded initiative, has enabled BRITE to establish a Herb Farm business and training venture within one year of first soil being turned in mid-2012. The venture has been established on 1.3 acres of land at the BRITE site in Broadmeadows, Victoria and provides the setting to enable delivery of work skills and vocational training in Horticulture to people in Hume. The project will facilitate the pathway from pre-accredited to accredited training and provide opportunities for participants to undertake Certificate 1 in Agri Foods Operations and Certificate 2 in Horticulture. As well as providing training and employment opportunities, the initiative provides hands on experience through the development of an urban herb farm in a supported learning environment. At the same time offering supported employment and training to people with a disability; the most obvious of these being physical and intellectual disabilities. BRITE HERB FARM
The official opening of the BRITE Herb Farm was on Friday the 22nd of November 2013. BRITE hosted a function in the BRITE Training Centre with Senator Mitch Fifeld officially opening the Herb Farm and Training Centre. The BRITE Herb Farm will grow a variety of potted, dried and freshculinary herbs such as Rosemary, Basil, Thyme and Sage. The goal of the BRITE Herb Farm is to build a sustainable social enterprise that will create training and employment opportunities within the community of Hume. As part of the future planning for the the Herb Farm, BRITE is heading into a new era of building and strengthening its partnerships with innovative businesses such as Outback Chef, enhancing procurement incentives with Local Government and supporting community groups. Additionally, BRITE plans to establish an outdoor kitchen at the Herb Farm for the delivery healthy living programs in an inviting outdoor setting, with the kitchen to be equipped with an outdoor Pizza Oven to make pizzas using BRITE Herbs fresh from the garden.
