WINYA (win-ya)

WINYA is a majority Indigenous owned and controlled business and is the only company in Australia awarded by the UNITED NATIONS for Leadership in Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

WINYA was founded in 2015, before any Government Procurement Policies by Kamilaroi woman Debbie Barwick and a team of highly
skilled commercial furniture industry professionals. WINYA is a profit-for-purpose business, creating employment through traineeships across the Australian Furniture Industry for Indigenous people.

WINYA supplies large-scale fit-outs and furniture to Australian Federal and State Government departments, including the ATO, Department of Defence, Federal Courts, hospitals, and educational institutions, as well as major corporate clients like ANZ and CommBank. Through partnerships with builders such as JLL, Built, and Lendlease, WINYA expands its Indigenous manufacturing employment program nationwide.

WINYA is a big supporter of artists and has one of the largest catalogues of Indigenous artists. WINYA’s growing House Artists Program aims to feature an artist from every language group, who are paid above industry standard for their works.

WINYA maximises its procurement outreach programs with timbers from remote communities, robust sustainability and circular economy programs and has created programs in Prisons to train Indigenous inmates to reduce recidivism & build better communities.