Deadline: 26 June 2024
Entries are now open for the Australian Women’s Small Business Champion Awards.
Categories
- Accounting
- Agricultural Services
- Alternative Therapy
- Automotive Services
- Bakery/Cake Business
- Beauty Services
- Brows and Lashes
- Make-up Artist
- Nail Artist
- Business Services
- Café
- Children’s Services
- Community Service Small Business
- Disability Support Services
- Early Childhood Services
- Educational Services
- Environmental Business
- Event Services
- Fashion
- Fast Food/Takeaway Shop
- Financial Services
- Fitness Services
- Florist
- Fresh Food
- Hairdressers
- Health Improvement Services
- Dental Services
- Home & Garden Improvement
- Home builder / renovations
- Information Technology
- Jewellery
- Legal Services
- Manufacturing
- Marketing Services
- New Business
- Not for Profit Small Business
- Online Business
- Performing Arts
- Pet Services
- Pharmacy
- Physiotherapy
- Plumbing Services
- Professional Medical Services
- Professional Services
- Real Estate
- Recruitment Services
- Restaurant
- Services
- Cleaning Services
- Social Enterprise Business
- Sole Operator
- Specialised Retail Small Business
- Specialised Small Business
- Tourism
- Trade Services
- Transport and Logistics
- Wedding Services
- Women’s Organisation
Optional Awards
- Australian Small Business Champion Influential Woman
- Australian Small Business Champion Woman Icon
- Small Business Champion Woman Entrepreneur (aged over 30 years)
- Young Small Business Champion Woman Entrepreneur (aged 30 years and under)
Benefits
- The awards can be used as a formal business planning process, allowing review for what you do best and what needs attention.
- Opportunity to benchmark your business against other businesses within the same industry.
- Becoming a finalist or winner can increase staff morale and development.
- Credibility amongst customers and the general community from being a finalist or winner of an award program.
- The awards provide exposure for the business including media.
- An entitlement to be recognised as a woman champion within small business
Eligibility
- The business must have a woman as an owner or at least 50% ownership and be a small business in Australia with an ABN. You can be home based or a sole operator.
- Retail or Service Businesses with 40 employees or less
- Manufacturing Businesses with 100 employees or less
- Note: Eligibility is based on the number of equivalent full-time positions within the business. (80 staff who work half a week each, is equal to 40 full time positions).
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