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Whitsunday Region celebrates Small Business Week

Retail expert John Stanley shared ideas on how to maximise current trends and leverage home town advantage in his presentations in Proserpine, Airlie Beach and Bowen during Small Business Week.The events were organised by Whitsunday Reginal Council in conjunction with the respective Chambers of Commerce.Titled ‘Establishing a Retail Identity in Regional Centres’, Mr Stanley shared his innovative insights which have helped many small businesses to grow and prosper.Mr Stanley said local businesses are the blueprint for success especially in small regional towns and he encouraged the business community to “Change for the Future-jump in, the water is fine”.To celebrate Small Business Week Mayor Andrew Willcox announced the recipients of the Whitsunday Small Business Start-Up Program.“This council-administered grant fund targeting start-up business opportunities in the Whitsunday region is a great initiative,” he said.“It is a competitive and merit-based grant program that aims to attract and enable entrepreneurs to undertake start-up business activities.“These businesses must align with our identified regional economic opportunities and not compete with existing business.“The aim of the program is to deliver key growth benefits to the Whitsunday Regional economy, including more jobs for locals,” Mayor Willcox said.The program provides monetary funding up to $10,000 which is matched by the applicant.Successful applicants were:Aurealis Creative Jewellery: The only manufacturing jewellery business for custom designs within a 150km radius of Airlie Beach.

Whitsunday Regional Council 31 May 2019