Business Prize & Opportunities, i3net, IRIS, Kidzwish and Health

Win a Small Business Flourish Package; Small business September

As part of Small Business September 2010, Industry and Investment NSW is offering small businesses the opportunity to win the Small Business Flourish Package valued at $17,400.
This prize includes:
• $1,000 ANZ Visa debit card
• $1,000 Australia Post office supplies
• $10,400 Cumberland Courier Newspapers advertising package
• $5,000 Yellow Pages print advertising package
This is a fantastic opportunity to improve your cash flow, upgrade your office supplies and significantly boost the promotion of your business. Don't miss your chance for help to grow your business and flourish!
Entry is free. Entries are limited to one per business. Entries close 29 September.

For more details go to http://www.smallbusinessmonth.nsw.gov.au/programs/sbm2010/FlourishComp.aspx. For more details about Small Business September events go to: http://www.smallbusinessmonth.nsw.gov.au/

Defence, Green Jobs and Steel at i3net

The Illawarra Innovative Industry Network in conjunction with Industry and Investment NSW invite you to the next Industry Breakfast Meeting at Illawarra Yacht Club at 1 Northcliffe Drive Warrawong on Monday September 20 beginning at 8am.

The three presenters include: Illawarra
Ben White, Manager, Australian Business Defence Industry Unit. Ben has broad experience in the Defence, Government and business sectors. Discussions will include the NSW Government five year Defence Industry Plan and the relevance to the Illawarra.

Katrina Skellern, Project Manager, Green Jobs Illawarra. Katrina has 15 years corporate, local and state government experience in the economic, sustainable and community development sectors. She has project managed a large range of business and community sustainability, health and infrastructure development projects and strategic planning studies.

David Leavesley, General Manager for Australian Steel Mill Services and Ecocem at the BlueScope site. These companies convert slag, a co-product, from BlueScope Steels’ Blast Furnace and Steel operations into useable products in the concrete, road-making and civil industries. The product derived from the Ecocem business is a cement substitute; effectively a low CO2 version of normal Portland cement with similar properties.

Special presentation by the Illawarra Industry Mentoring Program, Students of Illawarra Sports High School.

Bookings through Sandy Haig ~ i3net Network Co-ordinator, Illawarra Innovative Industry Network; Phone 0401 030 023; Email i3net@i3net.com.au; Web i3net.com.au

Want to benefit from Western Australian Developments?

During the past year, the AusIMM Illawarra Branch has been part of a project, called the Illawarra Mining Technology & Services Group, (IMT&SG) that aims to increase opportunities for Illawarra firms that supply goods and services for the mining industry. The following opportunity, through Project Connect, for businesses to register an interest in projects in Western Australia has been received.

For any of your contacts who are looking to tap into the supply chain of any of major projects in WA and other regions, you may want to pass them on details of Project Connect. See http://www.projectconnect.com.au/ Based in Perth, this database runs independent to the ICN Australian website.  Suppliers from all over Australia can register their capabilities and receive weekly updates as to new opportunities.
Every week Australian projects, worth billions of dollars, and thousands of suppliers benefit from using Project Connect.
Project Connect provides project developers and their engineers with their own unique categorised electronic library of suppliers.
Project Connect is an innovative and easy to use tool to communicate supply opportunities to industry.
Project Connect is environmentally friendly as it alleviates the need for suppliers to provided printed marketing material to project buyers.
A recent fortnightly ProjectConnect eNews covered the following topics:
1. Oakajee Port & Rail Infrastructure Project on ProjectConnect
2. Hints on using the Emailed Search facility
3. 105 new members list on ProjectConnect in last fortnight.
4. 24 Successful tenderer contact details have been provided for awarded packages.
5. 29 supply opportunities are about to close for full package registrations.
6. 75 new full package supply opportunities were listed during the last fortnight.
To access the newsletters go to:
http://www.projectconnect.com.au/Documents/Newsletterattachments/ProjectConnect_Newsletter_23_Aug_10.pdf

IRIS Research - Celebrating 30 Years

Join IRIS Research as it celebrates 30 years of delivering economic and marketing insight to the Illawarra at the 2010 IRIS Economic Outlook Luncheon.
Thursday, 23rd September, 2010 at Villa D’oro, 39-41 Flinders Street, Wollongong
12:00 pm (Drinks & Networking) for 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm (Lunch & Presentation)
Tickets for IRIS Members are complimentary
IRIS Non-Members & Additional Tickets $95 (Incl. GST)
Table of ten $850 (Incl. GST)
For bookings contact Gina Kime by phone on 4285 4446 or email: gina_kime@iris.org.au

Ray Martin & Guy Sebastian at Kidzwish Christmas Ball

The Kidzwish Christmas Ball is coming up on November 19 at the WIN Entertainment Centre. Ray Martin will be the host while Guy Sebastian and the Geoff Harvey Big Band will be part of the entertainment. For more details and to book call 1300 260 990 or email renee@kidzwishfoundation.org.au.

Help your local community with seniors’ health issues

Are you over 50 years old?
The Health Promotion Service for older people would like to train you to be a volunteer educator to conduct informative health related discussions to groups of seniors in the Illawarra and Shoalhaven areas.
The 3 day training will provide you with information about the role of a peer educator, group presentation skills and an introduction to health related topics. The program is run in many community languages, so if you speak English or other languages, we want you!
If you’re interested please contact Habib or Barbara on (02) 9281 3588 or 1800 451 488
Email: health@cpsa.org.au

WHERE: Multicultural Community Council Illawarra (MCCI), 117 Corrimal St Wollongong
COST: Free! Morning tea and lunch provided
DATE: Tue 28, Wed 29, Thur 30 September
TIME: 10 am - 4 pm

Publicity for an Event?

If you want publicity for your community, business or technically related event, contact Colin Seaborn on 4254 0200 or 0419 841829 or click here->
We welcome stories and photos. With the YOC electronic magazine going out monthly you will need to send your story by the end of a month to get publicity for an event in the following month in this Clipboard column.