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Free small business mentoring
We are extending our service to support businesses during this time of hardship.
Guiding Your Business is our free small business advice service to assist businesses registered in the City of Whittlesea.
The service provides confidential one-on-one sessions with highly skilled and experienced business mentors and is designed to help with:
- business planning and growth
- changes in and to your business
- identifying goals
The one-hour sessions are held on the first Friday of each month. Bookings must be confirmed in advance.
Meetings on your premises
Our team can visit your premises to discuss the issues affecting your business and the type of assistance you need to strengthen and grow your business, through our Visitation Program.
We hold these informal and confidential meetings on your premises to gain a solid understanding of your operations. Our aim is to help you resolve your business concerns. If we are unable to help, we will refer you on to other organisations who can.
Contact and bookings
To book a mentoring session or arrange a visit, call our Economic Development Team on 9217 2278.
Whittlesea Business eNewsletter
Keep up-to-date with the most recent information that is relative to your businesses with our monthly Whittlesea Business E-news
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Subscribe to receive Whittlesea Business e-news.
View previous e-news:
- Business eNews - special edition - early April, 03 April 2020
- Update on council services and closed offices, 26 March 2020
- Business eNews - April 2020, 25 March 2020
- Social Enterprise Celebration Breakfast - 11 March, 03 March 2020
- Business eNews - March 2020, 25 February 2020
- Business eNews - February 2020, 30 January 2020
Connect with businesses through our Whittlesea Coffee Club networking series
Our networking series encourages local business owners to come together and share information, ideas, resources and opportunities.
These quarterly events also offer participants the opportunity to promote their business, products and services.
Details of these events will be promoted through the Whittlesea Business eNews.
Committed to being a Small Business Friendly Council
Council has committed to being a Small Business Friendly Council, an initiative developed by the Victorian Small Business Commission (VSBC) in partnership with local councils to provide small business with the support they need to run their businesses. The initiative is supported by the Small Business Friendly Council Charter that outlines shared goals for both the VSBC and Council in working to create a fair and competitive trading environment for small businesses.
Examples of these goals include supporting local businesses in managing the impacts of infrastructure projects, streamlining the approval process when starting a business, help set up and support local business networks and more.