Published on Friday, 4 September 2020 at 12:46:00 PM
With communities desiring their local governments to be focused on local economic recovery and jobs, for most local governments, this is a discretionary role, and a new one that has added pressure to existing workloads during the pandemic.
Local Government Professionals Association (LG-Pro) have advocated for building business capacity and providing local governments with the ability to facilitate and aid in this capacity building.
As such, it is pleasing that Innovation and ICT Minister Dave Kelly recently announced five organisations selected to provide free business advice and mentoring support to affected start-ups and small to medium enterprise (SMEs) through the X-TEND WA Program.
The providers will use the additional $390,000 funding to support innovative companies in both metropolitan and regional areas, and target all industry sectors. In June 2020, the Minister announced he was advancing funding of up to $800,000 from the $16.7 million New Industries Fund with $100,000 of this allocated through the X-TEND WA program for business advice and mentoring.
You can read more about the program here.
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