| City of Armadale |
- Establish an online business platform to connect local business owners.
- Develop the Forrestdale Business Park promotional campaign.
- Collaborate with Curtin University to develop a mentoring program for local business owners.
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| Shire of Ashburton |
- Offer business grants in line with newly released economic and tourism development strategy.
- Coordinate networking events for small businesses.
- Increase opening hours of shire offices.
- Simplify forms when engaging with the shire.
- Fast-track pre-registration inspections for food businesses.
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| Shire of Augusta-Margaret River |
- Develop and launch a 'choose local' campaign to encourage residents to buy local.
- Implementation of a COVID-19 support package to help local businesses through the pandemic.
- Develop the Scott River Sustainable Economy Strategy, in conjunction with the Shire of Nannup and industry partners, which will identify key challenges and opportunities for farmers in the region.
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| Town of Bassendean |
- Provide a collaborative space for small businesses and creative industries in the town via the ‘Nautilis’ project.
- Develop a masterplan for the Bassendean town centre.
- Simplify the town’s procurement processes.
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| City of Bayswater |
- Waive planning applications fees for change of use applications for premises on main streets (which have been vacant for more than 12 months).
- Allocate two dedicated place managers to work with business and enable place activation.
- Allow new businesses to occupy previously vacant spaces for up to 20 days without planning approval (with a view to potentially extending this to six months to encourage activation).
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| City of Belmont |
- Maximising business development opportunities for local businesses.
- Working with neighbouring local governments to benefit the region.
- Promoting the city’s small businesses and the message that Belmont is a great place to do business.
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| Shire of Brookton |
- Review processes and forms to improve ease of use for customers and efficiency in processing by staff.
- Introduction of TenderLink to streamline the process for tenders.
- Adoption of Strategic Community Plan and Corporate Business Plan.
- Establishment of a Business Advisory Group to determine the business support activities the Shire will focus on.
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| Shire of Broome |
- Engage local small business in stage two of the Chinatown revitalisation project, including offering sub-contracting opportunities.
- Review funding guidelines and eligibility of grants offered by the shire.
- Accelerate forward capital works and asset maintenance as part of the shire’s COVID-19 support package; providing tendering opportunities for local small businesses.
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| City of Bunbury |
- Adopt a buy local policy for the City’s procurement of goods and services.
- Implement the Economic Development Action Plan which includes a focus on reducing red tape for businesses, developing a business incentive policy and a small business innovation grant
- Update the website to include small business information with links to support services.
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| City of Busselton |
- Introduce a 'purchase local' preference policy.
- Update the city's 'Developing Busselton' website information to ensure greater recognition of small businesses.
- Sponsor and promote the Local Chamber's annual awards to the local business community.
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| Town of Cambridge |
- Review existing partnership arrangements and identify opportunities to partner with local small businesses.
- Review on-street parking restrictions in West Leederville and Wembley.
- Develop a business perception survey.
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| City of Canning |
- Implement the Better Approvals project to improve the process for planning, building and health related applications.
- Incorporate information about health and wellbeing into business support programs, workshops and events.
- Provide development and support for the freight and logistics industry.
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| Shire of Carnarvon |
- Work with key stakeholders to deliver the Gascoyne Business Awards.
- Develop information sessions and workshops for local small businesses.
- Work with local businesses and key stakeholders to grow tourism in the region.
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| Shire of Chittering |
- Develop an online listing to promote local businesses.
- Build an interactive display at the local visitor centre to increase awareness of local food producing businesses offering farm gate sales.
- Encourage locals to purchase local Christmas gifts by partnering with the community newspaper to develop a gift guide.
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| Town of Claremont |
- Review digital marketing.
- Host an event that fuses the Claremont Town Centre business sector with a major community event providing a destination marketing opportunity to attract visitors.
- Provide networking and knowledge based opportunities for local businesses.
- Conduct market research and build on the 2017 research program.
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| City of Cockburn |
- Support a range of capacity building and professional development events for local small businesses and support organisations.
- Develop a public facing business database to encourage local collaboration and raise awareness of local businesses within the community.
- Provide subsidies to small business owners to offset the cost of training, support and mentoring.
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| Shire of Coolgardie |
- Promote local businesses on Facebook and the shire’s website with a ‘Go Local’ campaign.
- Ongoing maintenance and promotion of an online business directory.
- Support and promotion of small business workshops through the Business Local service.
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| Shire of Collie |
- Surveying local small businesses to assess their needs.
- Introducing online payments.
- Establishing an economic development team.
- Facilitating small business forums and events.
- Encouraging buy local shopping campaigns.
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| Shire of Dandaragan |
- Host regular networking events to promote Shire activities in various industries.
- Advocate for small business through the Shire’s ‘Process Improvement Working Group’ to improve communication protocols and reduce red tape.
- Collaborate with a local supplier to re-design and print shire collateral and to promote these new materials to local businesses.
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| Town of East Fremantle |
- On-going communication and support of local businesses to support them during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Launch of the ‘Look Local 2020’ social media competition.
- Review of the town’s approach to supporting and collaborating with local businesses.
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| Shire of Esperance |
- Review the approval process for non-standard business ideas.
- Develop a local tourism strategy to support small businesses.
- Create a concept plan for the James Street precinct to provide local businesses with clarity on future development work and ensure that their needs and aspirations are incorporated into the outcomes.
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| Shire of Exmouth |
- Develop a signage policy in consultation with the local business community.
- Develop a one-stop-approach and dedicate a resource to assist small business with all planning, building and health-related enquiries.
- Develop Exmouth 5000 – a business attraction and retention strategy.
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| City of Fremantle |
- Deliver a capacity building service for small businesses in the area.
- Request business input into the city’s destination marketing strategy.
- Inform businesses of grant opportunities.
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| City of Gosnells |
- Organise a business expo to promote small businesses in the area to encourage and promote ‘buy local, shop local’.
- Host a women in business networking event.
- Implement a Town Team within the city.
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| City of Joondalup |
- Update the business section of the website.
- Review information on the LINK website, a collaboration with Edith Cowan University to help business innovation.
- Provide funding to local co-working space Sixty27 and support events and workshops.
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| City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder |
- Improve the tendering capacity and awareness of procurement opportunities for local businesses through workshops and training, and distributing early information on open quotation requests and tenders.
- Run a 'buy local' campaign and market the economic benefits of spending locally to the broader community.
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| City of Karratha |
- Use the Small Business Development Support Grant program; to support a range of projects that will bring economic benefits to the City.
- Implement the ‘Take Your Business Online’ support grant scheme to improve the digital capacity and marketing of local small businesses.
- Establish a Small Business Advisory Group to provide advice to Council on small business matters, including procurement, policies, and opportunities for growth and diversification.
- Promote small businesses in the lead up to WA Small Business Day.
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| City of Kwinana |
- Develop a ‘Shop Local’ campaign
- Review the city’s procurement policy
- Create closer engagement through place planning initiatives.
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| City of Melville |
- Develop a Business Crime Prevention Resource Directory to improve awareness of existing crime prevention programs and initiatives.
- Implement a business customer journey mapping project to reduce customer transactions and provide business customers with an easy-to-use toolkit.
- Developing a place making framework and improve on engagement with businesses at the Riseley Centre Booragoon.
- Develop a food truck/fixed traders policy to create a fair trading environment for mobile businesses.
- Provide business training, networking and development opportunities.
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| Shire of Mt Marshall |
- Implement business workshops.
- Improve tourism and local area marketing.
- Improve local business information and promotion on shire's website.
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| Shire of Nannup |
- Develop community and place-based campaigns and projects through consultation with the local business community.
- Create programs, marketing and events campaigns and progress development project to support the local businesses recovering from the impact of COVID-19.
- Work in consultation with government agencies and community organisations to progress the development of trails and gaining trails town accreditation.
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| Shire of Narrogin |
- Investigate having a small business incentive program within the Narrogin CBD to update facades.
- Create an Economic Development Strategy.
- Create a Tourism Development Strategy.
- Work with the Narrogin Chamber of Commerce to develop a 'buy local' campaign.
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| Shire of Northam |
- Provide business investment funding to assist in the beautification and activation of under-utilised shop spaces.
- Build the relationship between the shire and local businesses.
- Promote economic growth to support businesses within the Shire of Northam.
- Develop a co-working space in the town centre.
- Promote a pop-up shop in the Northam CBD for new businesses.
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| Shire of Quairading |
- Engage with local stakeholders to develop a tourism strategy.
- Deliver local programs and events to build the capacity of business owners.
- Increase lighting in industrial areas to encourage the use of these spaces to expand existing businesses or attract new enterprises.
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| City of Rockingham |
- Encouraging procurement from local businesses by positively weighting local content in tender and quote submissions.
- Developing an investment prospectus to promote opportunities and profile the city’s unique advantages.
- Reviewing the city’s website to make it easier for small businesses to find information and support.
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| City of Stirling |
- Launch new city website with dedicated business and tourism section and business register to give local businesses an opportunity to engage with the city.
- Supporting workshops and the Momentum mentoring program at the Stirling Business Centre.
- Partnering with the SBDC on its Small Business Friendly Approvals project.
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| City of Subiaco |
- Engage with local businesses as part of the city’s new economic development strategy.
- Reduced red tape relating to planning, business licensing, outdoor activation and business support.
- Create a food hub to support home-based food businesses by providing use of a commercial kitchen and local delivery service.
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| Shire of Toodyay |
- Improve the information for business owners on the shires website.
- Seek local business owners input into the shires economic development strategy.
- Develop a casual hire office space to support new and existing businesses.
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| Town of Victoria Park |
- Identify ways to make it easier to run a business in the area.
- Facilitate a range of events that allow business owners to network and upskill.
- Continue to engage with and provide grants to Town Teams to undertake appropriate initiatives.
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| City of Vincent |
- Create a business directory to increase the visibility of businesses, especially those without a shop front or are located outside the town centre.
- Develop an online platform that allows businesses to book vacant tenancies for temporary use, for trailing a new business or low-risk shopfront feasibility.
- Establish a workshop program to improve access to skills development for local entrepreneurs.
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| City of Wanneroo |
- Greater focus on buying local, including:
- a goal of awarding contracts to local businesses first (in instances where all things are equal) by December 2019
- hold information sessions for small businesses explaining the city’s procurement processes
- advise City of Wanneroo staff of the buy local policy, including a list of local suppliers for staff to easily access.
- Regular engagement and consultation with small businesses.
- Support local businesses through events, information, promotion support and guidance.
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| Shire of Waroona |
- Review the shire’s regional price reference policy.
- Actively promote and support local businesses via the ‘Waroona Collective’ Facebook page.
- Host an after-hours event to show case local businesses.
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