September 2025 – August 2028 (Stretch) RAP
Our Indigenous Affairs Vision
We are dedicated to fostering inclusive, culturally informed change that celebrates the strength of our identity as individuals and as an organisation. Our four strategic pillars guide us in delivering transparent, measurable outcomes and ensuring accountability through strong governance:
Retention and Growth: Creating a culturally informed career roadmap to ensure Indigenous team members are valued, supported, and empowered to thrive, grow, and lead.
Shared Impact: Fostering diversity in supply chains and inclusive workplaces to deliver sustainable, partnership-driven outcomes locally and globally.
Enablement: Driving collective action through accessible resources, reciprocal relationships, and transparent accountability across all business levels.
Transform: Evolving business practices and governance to support nation-building partnerships and community-led, rights-based solutions with a focus on food security.
Our RAP Enablers
Aligned with our strategic pillars, we prioritise four key enablers to foster culturally safe pathways, strengthen meaningful partnerships, and drive enduring reconciliation outcomes:
Thriving Together: Creating culturally safe pathways that empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to grow, lead, and succeed.
Responding Together: Building cultural understanding and shared responsibility through respectful, meaningful action.
Growing Diverse Supply Chains: Partnering with Indigenous businesses to enhance supplier diversity and drive economic empowerment.
Strengthening Food Security: Supporting community-led solutions to food insecurity in remote and regional areas, recognising the connection between nourishment, wellbeing, and Country.
Reconciliation is not a linear path. It requires listening, reflection, humility to learn from missteps and the ambition to continuously improve. At Sodexo, we’ve taken time to reflect on what’s worked, and how we can do better. This RAP has been shaped through those learnings, with in-depth consultation across our business to ensure our commitments are targeted, realistic and meaningful.
Since its first RAP in 2011, Sodexo has partnered with and resourced First Nations communities to support food security, self-determination and employment opportunities in regional and remote communities. Sodexo has seen success in these initiatives in large part because it has embedded reconciliation into every aspect of its work. When RAP commitments are woven into the identity of an organisation, reconciliation becomes business as usual, rather than a stand-alone consideration.
Healthy People, Healthy Country
Wayne Ampetyane Davis, a respected Aboriginal Elder and artist, brings his cultural heritage and vision to Sodexo’s September 2025 - August 2028 Reconciliation Action Plan. His artwork, Healthy People, Healthy Country, symbolises connection, healing, and shared purpose, reflecting our commitment to people, communities, and Country. Discover the story behind his art:
Fresh. Indigenous. Genius.
Empowering Remote Indigenous Communities
Ashburton Aboriginal Corporation (AAC)
Striving towards Reconciliation
Opening Pathways for Indigenous Youth
We officially partnered with the Cowboys Community Foundation in 2024 to offer stable housing, life skills, and mentoring to help students navigate the transition from school to employment or further education.
There are huge opportunities within the E&R sector in our region and forging connections with industry leaders like Sodexo opens their eyes to futures they might never have imagined.
