Keeping biz on the move

Contibuted by Jenny Broderick

President, Glasshouse Country Chamber

IT WAS a busy ‘Small Business Month’ in May with our ‘Glassies’ Business Awards, and the launch of our Building Better Business Course Breakfast, hosted at Club Glasshouse, with Sponsors and Guest Speaker Brett from Hinterland Accountants and Advisers. Brett shared with us what the Federal Budget means for Small Business, and introduced our Business Course mentor, Angie Hammond.

Our inaugural Building Better Business Course delivered by TAFE and SCC, is now off to a great start, with 21 Chamber members participating. At the completion of the course, all of our participants will graduate with a Certificate IV in Entrepreneurship and New Business. The feedback so far has been very positive, including that we spend so much time working ‘in’ our businesses, that it’s great to be spending time working ‘on’ them. They will study everything fro Business plans to Marketing, social media, financial management and much more.

We will be celebrating all of our graduates at this year’s Chamber AGM in August. Keep an eye out for the dates. Our Chamber will endeavour to run this program annually for our members to take part in. Many of you will have seen the survey the Chamber distributed to our Glasshouse Country Businesses last week, in an effort to understand the extent of pain that the recent Telstra upgrades and outages have had on our businesses and greater Community. Thank you to all of you who were able to take part. Our Federal representative Mr Andrew Wallace and the Chamber will be meeting with Telstra representatives later this month, to present the data and see if any compensation can me made. We will keep you updated. Our next event will be hosted by Chamber members Wishlist and we are taking our

Business After Hours on location! Please join us after work on 29th June for a tour through the new Wishlist facilities in Birtinya - a facility that will host many of our Glasshouse Country families as they stay and visit loved ones in hospital. We will then head to the Mecure for further networking. Please follow our Facebook page for the event and updates. We look forward to having you join us.

A quick website update - as you will notice, our website is down while we change platforms. We will keep you all updated through our newsletters and please follow our social pages for all upcoming events.