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 bridges two worlds: organisational strategy and lived experience in community work. This dual perspective, shaped from boardrooms to classrooms, means she designs solutions that work for real people in real contexts.
City-born but at home in rural and remote communities, she creates innovative, practical, and inclusive solutions designed to endure and evolve with the people they serve.
Rebecca is a social entrepreneur and project strategist. She founded Turnstone Projects to help communities and organisations access education, employment, and enterprise opportunities – delivering work with clarity, flexibility, and focus on lasting impact.
As an educator and currently practicing secondary teacher in humanities and technology, she considers teaching both a privilege and a continual source of learning – one that keeps her grounded in what works when complexity meets human behaviour.
She contributes to her professional and local community through volunteer work, including with NSW Fencing.
“Rebecca helped us achieve our funding goal. She was able to weave the town’s history and culture into the present demonstrating the long-term need for our community. Her research was thorough and wide. It provided a clear overview of all we wanted. The speed at which she worked was impressive”.