By COREY ROSSER, NRL

Apart from the football, the NRL’s Indigenous Round this weekend will also see a push to showcase and support Indigenous-owned businesses.

And among those businesses will be Dhinewan Mentoring, a culture, wellbeing and leadership education provider set up and run by former NRL player Jonathan Wright, which will deliver a tailor-made program at the NRL Indigenous Youth Leadership Summit.

Penrith Panthers player Tyrone Peachey’s transport business Nanima Care will also support the event.

The NRL’s Reconciliation Action Plan program manager Alanah Scholes said it was a big focus to ensure Indigenous business and the wider Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities were involved off the field and particularly at events such as the NRL All Stars and Indigenous Round.

“This is a huge focus of our reconciliation journey, how we can have more Indigenous businesses and Indigenous people leading from the front,” she said on nrl.com

“A lot of the work that we do in this space has a focus on working with Indigenous businesses and it’s all about not just supplying economic support, but how it supports our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities from grassroots right through to the top end.

“The businesses could be mum and dad businesses or more established ones.”

“It adds another layer to what we can offer.”