WiBRD Online Workshop
WiBRD is hosting a free online workshop with Doug White from Rural Business Support. This workshop is for anyone that is involved in small business and will take place via Zoom so you can enjoy it from the comfort of your own home or workplace.
Doug can help small business find some clarity and a sense of control over where your business is heading by:
- Identifying the important decisions that need to be made
- Considering different options they may have to improve the business
- Developing a plan to keep the business on track and business owners feeling in control.
This program supports eligible regionally based small business owners.
Date: Thursday 16 December
Time: 8am – 9am
Host: Doug White, Small Business Financial Counsellor, Rural Business Support.
Once you are registered you will receive access to the Zoom Link which you can access shortly before the event. Find out more here.
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Green Triangle Timber Industry Awards
Lock it in your diary, the Green Triangle Timber Industry Awards Ceremony will be held on Friday 11 March 2022 at The Barn, Mount Gambier.
Celebrating category finalists and announcing the 2021 GTTIA Award winners, the gala event will showcase the individuals and companies achieving great things and shine a light on the innovation, technologies and environmental and sustainability practices that the industry is proudly at the forefront of.
Tickets will be available for purchase in the new year, for more information please contact info@gttia.com
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Sustainable Land Management Survey 2021
The Limestone Coast (LC) Landscape Board Sustainable Land Management Survey is now open for submissions with land managers, industry professionals and community members all encouraged to take part.
With some fantastic prizes on offer, the LC Landscape Board Sustainable Primary Production team welcomes your feedback to help define priority areas for investment in our region.
Take the survey here.
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Stefari Flowers is a locally owned and operated flower farm established by Lizemarie and Stephanie in Glencoe. Offering posies, bunches and bouquets, you can find their produce regularly at the Mount Gambier markets, on offer at the Limestone Coast Pantry and made to order through their Facebook page here.
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Community, Sport and Recreation Grants
Wattle Range Council
Applications for Round 2 of Council’s 2021/22 Financial Assistance Grants program are now open. Are you planning a project or event in the Wattle Range district that could benefit from Council's financial support? Grants of up to $2,000 are available, and submissions will be accepted until 4 January 2022.
Guidelines and forms are available at Council’s offices or on their website here.
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Drought Resilient Soils and Landscapes Grants Program
The objective of the Future Drought Fund: Drought Resilient Soils and Landscapes Grants Program (the program) is to trial and demonstrate how scaling of particular practices (or combinations of practices) to improve management of natural capital can build drought resilience.
Through this, the program aims to create and communicate an evidence base and case studies that contribute to scaling out the successful practices.
They are looking for projects that address all of the following:
- targeted at improving the drought resilience of agriculture
- involve trial and demonstration of practices to improve management of natural capital in ways that directly support drought resilience
- focused on achieving and measuring impacts at scale, particularly landscape scale
- provide case studies to support scaling out of successful practices through robust monitoring, measurement and communication of project impacts
- are valued between $500,000 and $1 million
- delivered over April 2022 to June 2024.
Applications close 11 January. Find out more here.
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Energy Efficient Communities Program
Food and Beverage Manufacturing Business Grants
This grant provides small/medium businesses up to $25,000 to improve energy efficiency practices and technologies and better manage energy consumption to reduce their power bills.
Funding from $10,000 to $25,000 is available to reduce the energy consumption of your business. This grant is targeted at small and medium food and beverage manufacturing businesses, whose main activity is classified under one of the ANZSIC codes listed on pages 7-8 of the Grant Opportunity Guidelines.
Projects must address one or more of the following focus areas:
- Energy audits and energy management
- Energy monitoring
- Heating ventilation and air conditioning at the manufacturing facility
- Lighting
- Other motors, conveyors, blowers, fans, pumps, and fluid distribution systems
- Power supply
- Process automation and controls
- Process cooling
- Process heating or drying
- Air compressors and compressed air systems
- Waste management.
Note: The purchase of energy generation equipment (such as solar panels, biomass generation systems) and the purchase of electrical energy storage equipment (such as batteries) is not considered eligible expenditure under this grant program. Full details on eligible expenditure can be found in the Grant Opportunity Guidelines.
Grants will open on 12 January 2022 and close on 18 February 2022 or until funds are fully subscribed, whichever occurs earlier. The notional number of grants to be awarded in South Australia is 84. Find out more here.
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RDALC provides free access to the Limestone Coast Grant Finder to all businesses, Local Government, community groups, not-for-profits and individuals. The site provides a comprehensive list of grant and funding opportunities available across our region.
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Australia's Birth Rate Declines to a Record Low in 2020
In today's blog Glen from .id takes a look at the 2020 Australian Births data, breaking down some of the implications of a record low fertility rate and addressing misinterpretations regarding the impact of COVID-19 on these numbers.
The latest birth numbers are out from the ABS, and they show that Australia’s total fertility rate has declined to a record low in calendar year 2020, of just 1.581 babies per female. This rate has never been seen before. Even the number of births, which tends to increase with higher population, has fallen to 294,369 births registered in 2020. This was the lowest number since 2007. This comes at a time when our borders have been closed, resulting in minimal overseas migration. Both these factors are now contributing to record low population growth.
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Employment Preparation & Engagement Consultant
WDEA Works - Full time role
WDEA Works is a community focused not-for-profit organisation providing Disability Employment Services (DES), jobactive programmes, Social Enterprises, NDIS programs and activities, and is also a Registered Training Organisation (RTO).
The successful candidate will canvass the local community to promote WDEA Works Employment Services and create employment opportunities for participants. The ideal candidate will have an ability to maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including participants, family members, carers, funding body staff and subsidiaries, community services and employers.
This role is focused on engaging community stakeholders to increase referrals to WDEA Works Employment programs and requires a motivated individual with experience in employment preparation and proven skills and experience in engaging business and community services that facilitates opportunities for people with various support requirements.
Applications close 4 January 2022. Find out further details on core duties, additional benefits and how to apply, here.
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