Sports court upgrade, Kunawarritji, East Pilbara, Western Australia – EIW Architects

WHAT WE DO

We support organisations to plan, fund and manage building projects.

From a sports court upgrade to a cultural centre, we locate and secure what your project needs: money, people and skills. And we stay with it until it’s built.

OUR WORK

Some of our projects

  • Through the trees a metal-roofed basketball court is visible. It has Aboriginal paintings along the vertical awning

    Sports court upgrade

    Kunawarritji, East Pilbara, Western Australia

  • Interior of a school with a bright yellow door, some wooden artefacts arched over it, some welcoming furniture, and large windows into the classroom

    School building renovation

    Punmu, East Pilbara, Western Australia

  • Beyond the branch of a tree a construction site is visible with half a building, foundations and machinery

    Staff facility

    Timber Creek, Big Rivers, Northern Territory

  • 3D render of the design for new classrooms

    New classrooms

    Punmu, East Pilbara, Western Australia

  • Artist's impression of the design for a desert learning hub, with a curved corten steel roof

    Learning hub

    Kunawarritji, East Pilbara, Western Australia

  • A boab tree leans in from the foreground, toward a slightly-raised platform. Behind are more trees and a red rocky mountain

    Glamping retreat

    Near Jarlmadangah Burru, Kimberley, Western Australia

WHY US

We work with you, from the first idea to opening day

Start to end

Plan, fund and build

Project development, grant writing and project management. All stages of a project under one roof.

We don’t do it alone

Tap the power of good

Knowing that some projects need extra help, we bring amazing pro bono and corporate partners’ support to you.

Continuity

The same people throughout

The team that listens to your community at the start is the team that stands with you at the opening.

Social enterprise

Profits reinvestment

As as certified social enterprise, we reinvest most of our profits in our purpose. Your money helps your community and the next one.

Affordable

Priced for community organisations

We offer practical and affordable services.

Community led

Your project, your way

We listen carefully, work to your community’s priorities and needs, and build for purpose and Country.

Our impact

  • 14

    organisations supported in remote locations

  • $645k

    worth of pro bono support by our corporate partners

  • 12

    projects initiated, scoped and shovel-ready

  • $6.7m

    worth of funding raised

  • 62%

    grant application success rate

  • 7

    projects completed

IN THEIR WORDS

Our clients say

"It's wonderful and feels sooo safe for the kids."

Michelle Day Teacher

"These projects could not have happened without the support of Metio."

Sarah Mortimer Principal

"Metio produced a feasibility report with comprehensive analysis and documentation."

Campbell Fletcher Senior Business Manager

CERTIFICATIONS

For-purpose social enterprise

Metio is certified by Social Traders as a for-purpose social enterprise. That means:

  • having a purpose – existing to solve a social or environmental problem

  • prioritising purpose – people and planet – over profit in day-to-day decisions

  • operating with a self-sustaining revenue model

  • reinvesting most of the profit into the purpose

  • having a legal and financial structure that protects and locks in purpose, long-term.