One of the new initiatives we introduced is the Veteran Business Forum. Amongst our local community we have some amazing Veteran businesses. Defence force personnel have vast, incredible, and unique experiences, skillsets training and education. Some utilise these skills and take them into civilian life by starting their own business there are others that have incredible knowledge, ideas and plans to start up and run their own business however do not have the understanding or support to help structure to start so these fill fall to the wayside & there are others that may not have considered the option of starting or running their own business due to lack of opportunity education or support to do so.
To support our local Veteran Businesses, we run collaborative workshops that source information, such as mentoring, peer support, networking and connection between services as well as hold targeted workshops on specific business requirements such as grant writing, marketing / promotions, requirements / governance, communication, digital media, legal / contracts / licensing and other key business skills.