Our Story

Where friendship meets purpose

Born from the vision of three childhood friends – Harry, Max and Gabriel – Marco Polo Supports emerged in late 2022.

Travelling back in time to when the three friends had left the same school they had once shared, they found themselves branching off on different paths discovering where life would take them. Harry pursued further studies, Max was engulfed in his passion for music and Gabriel sought after an exciting adventure through travel. Each of the boys began working as support workers on the side to make ends meet, however discovered something so much more. They found great fulfilment in being able to make a profound impact on others through their work.

Years after leaving school, still maintaining contact as friends, the trio started getting closer again and related over the support work they were doing. Through their experiences, they encountered common frustrations with traditional support services, including a lack of innovation and reinvestment into the quality of supports. These inefficiencies lead to a revelation that the support industry needed a fresh perspective, and from there they combined their unique strengths – Harry’s business acumen, Max’s creative approach and Gabriel’s worldly perspective – to create Marco Polo Supports, a service dedicated to breaking conventional boundaries and fostering meaningful connections.

Why Marco Polo?

The name Marco Polo Supports originated from the 13th century explorer, Marco Polo, who was most famous for being one of the first to introduce Europeans to the wonders of Asia through his subsequent writings ‘The travels of Marco Polo’. Marco Polo was a pioneer in his field of exploration, which was something Harry, Max and Gabriel felt incapsulated their ambitions. Like the legendary explorer the provider is named after, their journey began with a passion for discovery.