	{"id":106743,"date":"2024-11-08T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/geelongtimes\/?p=106743"},"modified":"2024-11-06T23:19:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T12:19:42","slug":"merger-floated-between-support-organisations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/geelongtimes\/news\/merger-floated-between-support-organisations\/","title":{"rendered":"Merger floated between support organisations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE boards of two local community organisations have started a project to explore a potential merger.<\/p>\n<p>MEGT Australia and gforce employment + recruitment believe a merger would better support the needs of local people, employers, communities, and their staff.<\/p>\n<p>The boards believe the partnership could also provide strategic benefits for both organisations and provide greater scale, opportunity and ability to invest.<\/p>\n<p>MEGT chair Peter Moore highlighted the benefits of the merger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MEGT and gforce are successful organisations that are respected in their communities,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our partnership combines the skills of our great teams who share the passion for helping people, and greater resources to support our innovation and growth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Together we will help even more people and more communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MEGT and gforce plan to maintain local service delivery teams and serve clients under both identities in metropolitan, rural and regional areas.<\/p>\n<p>gforce chair Bill Mithen emphasised the complementary nature of the two organisations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MEGT and gforce share a common heritage and commitment to helping people,&#8221; Mr Mithen said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Through our merger we will better serve our existing communities and are excited to build new<\/p>\n<p>relationships.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We look forward to bringing our strong community connections and benefiting from MEGT&#8217;s expertise and scale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The aim is for a merger decision to be announced by March 31, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE boards of two local community organisations have started a project to explore a potential merger. 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