Students recording their social enterprise story, Bourke Public School
About Us
Purpose, experience, impact.
Turnstone Projects is a social enterprise certified by Social Traders and verified by People + Planet First. We create fair and practical opportunities for people and communities and are structured to ensure every project contributes to that mission.
Our focus is on building capacity, confidence, and lasting impact whether through place-based collaboration or by strengthening programs that improve access to education, employment, and wellbeing.
We contribute time, expertise, and resources to our social purpose:
- Providing pro bono professional services
- Supporting youth-focused organisations
- Volunteering on projects that give young people and communities genuine choice and opportunity
With experience across industries, sectors, and regions, we recognise the patterns, opportunities, and nuances that shape meaningful outcomes. We combine practical solutions with purpose-driven impact.
About Rebecca Iliffe
Founder and strategy lead
Rebecca works in the space connecting strategy and people, helping organisations and communities turn good intentions into lasting outcomes.
She is a project strategist, facilitator and educator, and that blend shapes how she works and what she leaves behind. Her goal is to build the skills and capability for those in place to lead and sustain impact long after the project ends.
As a practising secondary teacher in humanities and technology, Rebecca considers teaching both a privilege and a continual source of learning, one that keeps her grounded in what actually works when complexity meets human behaviour. It is the same grounding she brings to every project: a genuine understanding of how people learn, lead and change.
She founded Turnstone Projects to connect communities and organisations with practical pathways in education, employment, and enterprise, delivering work with clarity, flexibility, and a focus on outcomes that endure. Her experience spans sectors from agriculture, manufacturing and investment to philanthropy and community development.
City-born, she is equally at home in a boardroom or a community hall in rural and remote Australia. With experience reaching into Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America, she brings a global perspective to place-based work, always with the same focus on practical, lasting change.
Outside her professional work, Rebecca contributes to her local community through volunteer work supporting school and community-led fencing for young people and is a member of Social Enterprise Council of NSW and ACT (SECNA).
