Small Business Advisory Services Programme - Service Providers
Initiative
Organisation
Address
Contact
Project Title
Project Description
Delivery Locations
QLD
Natural
Disaster
Assistance
Bundaberg
Enterprise Centre
Association Inc
20B Quay Street
BUNDABERG QLD 4670
Mr Peter Peterson
Manager
07 4153 2333
ppeterson@bundabergbec.org.au
Bundaberg's Road
to Recovery
Bundaberg
QLD
Natural
Disaster
Assistance
Burnett Inland
Economic
Development
Organisation Inc
10 Moore Street
GOOMERI QLD 4601
Ms Carmel Summers
Acting Chief Executive Officer
07 4169 7856
biedobfc@burnett.net.au
Connect - Rebuild Revive: Pushing
Back the Floods
2013
QLD
Natural
Disaster
Assistance
Business
Enterprise Centre
Sunshine Coast
Innovation Centre
Sunshine Coast University
90 Sippy Downs Drive
SIPPY DOWNS QLD 4556
Mr Rod Richards
Managing Director
1300 133 058
manager@becbusiness.org.au
Advancing
Queensland
Business After
Natural Disasters Sunshine Coast and
Gympie Regions
QLD
Natural
Disaster
Assistance
Gladstone Area
Promotion and
Development Ltd
Marina Business Complex
1/98 Bryan Jordan Drive
GLADSTONE QLD 4680
Mrs Kim Williams
Senior Project Officer
07 4972 4000
kim.williams@gapdl.com.au
Gladstone Region
Business Advisory
Services developing
sustainable,
resilient businesses
The Bundaberg Business Enterprise Centre (BEC) will provide high quality,
low cost advisory services targeted towards improving management
capability, business skills and/or financial management skills of micro and
small businesses that are directly or indirectly impacted by ex-tropical
cyclone Oswald and associated rainfall, flooding and tornadoes.
As an extension of its small business support services, BIEDO will address
two deficiencies hampering recovery of individual enterprises, supply chains
and the regional economy. An experienced business financial counsellor
(BFC) will work intensively with SMEs on a one-on-one customised basis.
Intensive post-flood re-building, facilitated by the BFC, will focus on cash
flow recovery, practical business re-structuring, new loan negotiation or renegotiation of existing loans. The ultimate goal is post-flood stability and
revival. Ten hands-on workshops will up skill regional enterprises in use of
internet, social media and email as tools for Crisis Management, Disaster
Recovery and Future Preparedness and Revival. A phone-based 'Talk to a
Techie' service will provide 'as needs' follow-up. The ultimate goal is
improved self-reliance in information management during and after a
disaster and increased independence in undertaking basic recovery actions.
BEC Sunshine Coast will provide contingency and continuity management
skills mentoring, planning advice, information and business mentoring
programs to small businesses that accelerate return to normal trading and
advance Queensland businesses impacted by recent natural disasters and
severe weather events. Services will build connection with experienced,
high value mentoring and provide advice that transfers skills and enriches
business life in areas of business management, operations, marketing,
financial management and customer experience. Project will provide
flexible, timely and relevant business development programs, information
and advice that increase business management skills and know-how, provide
easily implemented pathways and action planning that add value,
innovation, resilience and sustainability for business and local community.
Gladstone Region Small Business Advisory Services will provide a series of
regular workshops, networking opportunities, one on one mentoring and
diagnostic sessions and referrals to government agencies which will
empower the small business proprietor. Small businesses will be better
positioned and equipped to meet the challenges of future crisis situations.
The businesses will be proficient across current business management
practices which include effective marketing and digital tools.
North Burnett
South Burnett
Banana
Sunshine Coast
Gympie
Gladstone
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Initiative
Organisation
Address
Contact
Project Title
Project Description
Delivery Locations
QLD
Natural
Disaster
Assistance
National Centre
for Studies in
Travel and
Tourism Pty Ltd
Level 11
30 Makerston Street
BRISBANE QLD 4000
Mr Mark Olsen
General Manager - Consulting
07 3238 1910
Mark.olsen@ec3global.com
Ready, Set, Go! –
Building tourism
business resilience
in the event of a
natural disaster
Ready, Set Go! will develop a simple interactive App that gets businesses
ready to go prior, during and straight after a crisis. Workshops will also be
offered across Queensland; however businesses will be able to go to
www.sustainabletourismonline.com/readysetgo to get started. The project
will also provide one-on-one assistance, short videos, and access to more
information to get the tourism industry in Queensland Ready, Set and
Going!
QLD
Natural
Disaster
Assistance
Queensland Fruit
and Vegetable
Growers Ltd
(Growcom)
68 Anderson Street
FORTITUDE VALLEY QLD
4006
Mr David Putland
Policy Manager
07 3620 3823
dputland@growcom.com.au
Better disaster risk
management for
the Queensland
horticulture
industry
Aurukun, Burke, Cairns, Cassowary Coast, Cook,
Doomadgee, Etheridge, Hope Vale, Kowanyama,
Lockhart River, Mapoon, Mornington,
Napranum, Northern Peninsula, Pormpuraaw,
Tablelands, Torres, Torres Strait Island, Wujal
Wujal, Yarrabah, Burdekin, Hinchinbrook, Palm
Island, Issac, Mackay, Whitsunday, Woorabinda,
Brisbane, Logan, Moreton Bay, Redland,
Cherbourg, Balonne, Maranoa, Gold Coast,
Carpentaria, Cloncurry, McKinlay, Central
Highlands, Rockhampton, Banana, Gladstone,
Bundaberg, North Burnett, Fraser Coast,
Gympie, Sunshine Coast, Ipswich, Lockyer Valley,
Scenic Rim, Somerset, Goondiwindi, South
Burnett, Southern Downs, Toowoomba, Western
Downs
Lockyer Valley, North Burnett, South Burnett,
Logan, Sunshine Coast, Scenic Rim, Burdekin,
Whitsunday, Cassowary Coast, Tablelands
QLD
Natural
Disaster
Assistance
Subtropical Dairy
Programme Ltd
32 Waterview Avenue
WYNNUM QLD 4178
Mr Brad Granzin
Executive Officer
02 6678 0474
brad@dairyinfo.biz
QLD
Natural
Disaster
Assistance
Toowoomba and
Surat Basin
Enterprise Pty Ltd
Suite 13
Level 2532 Ruthven
Street TOOWOOMBA
QLD 4350
Mr Shane Charles
Chief Executive Officer
07 4639 4600
shane@tsbe.com.au
The proposed seminar series will deliver vital, relevant and targeted
information on disaster risk management directly to small farm businesses
across Queensland. The seminars will provide information, resources and
tools that will assist small horticultural business owners to understand the
potential sources of risk and to identify simple cost-effective strategies to
mitigate that risk. The project will further develop Growcom's disaster risk
information pack and toolbox and develop additional content based on
existing research and provide valuable exposure and extension for these
resources via a series of seminars in regional areas, followed by webinars
that will provide an ongoing, free online resource for small farm businesses.
Rebuilding and
Subtropical Dairy will facilitate supported learning opportunities for all dairy
Growing a
farmers, through the contracting of industry expertise to meet the demands
Sustainable,
and needs of our dairy farmers. The support offered will include 1-on-1
Productive,
support, subject based group discussions, business analysis and feedback,
Profitable and
training courses, regionally specific subject content workshops and other
Resilient Qld Dairy extension activities as identified as essential by the local dairy farmers to
Industry
achieve their goals. Dairy business owners and operators will be supported
through the process of disaster recovery and business re-establishment (or
departure), from a sustainable and productive business management
perspective.
Risk proofing
The project will deliver an ongoing series of small business workshops,
Southern
convened on 54 occasions over a two-year period and focusing on the set
Queensland
topics of "Risk profiling and planning", "Marketing plans", "Financial
Businesses
planning/budgets/cash flow", "Business plans", "Emergency response
plans", "HR strategy and plans", "Strategic planning", "E-commerce and
online tools to assist with planning". The workshop series aims to
underwrite healthier resilient businesses and risk-proof these businesses for
challenges to their operations such as flood events. Small businesses will be
able to access a one-hour, one-on-one consultation with presenters to
further develop the plans from the workshops.
Banana, Bundaberg, Fraser Coast, Gladstone,
Gold Coast, Gympie, Goondiwindi, Gympie,
Ipswich, Lockyer, Logan, Mackay, Moreton Bay,
North Burnett, Rockhampton, Scenic Rim,
Somerset, South Burnett, Southern Downs,
Sunshine Coast, Tablelands, Toowoomba,
Western Downs
Toowoomba
Western Downs
Maranoa
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Initiative
Organisation
Address
Contact
Project Title
Project Description
Delivery Locations
QLD
Natural
Disaster
Assistance
Whitsundays
Marketing and
Development Ltd
2623 Shute Harbour Road
JUBILEE POCKET QLD
4802
Miss Denise Kreymborg
Economic Development Manager
07 4948 5900
edm@wmdl.com.au
Preparing Business
for Tomorrow
Today
To facilitate the recovery of Whitsunday businesses impacted by the
associated rain event and flooding from ex-tropical Cyclone Oswald in early
2013, the Whitsundays BEC proposes to offer a business mentoring program
to eligible businesses with the aim to ‘Prepare Business for Tomorrow
Today’. Mentoring will focus on the areas of financial planning, business
management and minimising the effects of future events through
introduction of business continuity, risk management and succession
planning initiatives. Industries where business was most notably effected
across the Whitsunday include marine, retail, construction, tourism and
agriculture.
Whitsunday
This information is correct as of 8 April 2015.
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