Startup Tablelands

Future Agro Challenge (run by Startup Tablelands) won the Business, Industry and Innovation Award at the TRC Australia Day Awards last night!!!!

Congrats to all involved, in particular, Jess Fealy who unfortunately couldn’t make it to the ceremony last night.

Startup Tablelands president Christine Doan did the honours and received the award from TRC’s CEO Justin Commons.

Paul Flynn is originally from the UK. He migrated to Australia in 2000 (Sydney) and has lived in Cairns since 2006.

Paul is a fully-qualified commercial Accountant, adding further and broader finance, leadership, management, coaching and training qualifications progressively over time, whilst working across different sectors.

This has encompassed over 25 years of delivering successful solutions within large, complex, listed organisations in both countries, as well as within SME’s and NFP’s in Cairns.

Paul has drawn upon that background to form his own business ‘PRF Business Solutions®’, which brings the benefits to small companies of what big companies often do well – processes and practices, whilst dealing with the particular individual needs of a small business.

PRF Business Solutions® uses Xero, providing business advisory, consulting and bookkeeping services to small businesses in Cairns and the Atherton Tablelands, supporting them to do the things they might need to – like BAS and with those they may wish to do like improving business performance.

Paul is married to Sureyya, who both enjoy the opportunities that living in such a beautiful place as FNQ provides, whilst also enjoying their return trips to their native countries of England and Turkey to visit family.

Hi my name is Debbie Savage.

I have worked as a therapist for the past 17 years offering many styles of massage, reiki, pregnancy, Hypnobirthing classes, baby massage classes and sound therapy.

I am very passionate about Sound and offer regular monthly Sound meditations around the Tableland or personal sound sessions.

I play many unusual Healing instruments on or over the body, very profound modality and definitely worth experiencing

I work from my home clinic in Atherton.

You can find me on my Fb.debbiesavagemassage PH: 0427 559 142 or visit my web, www.debbiesavagetherapies.com.au

Tuesday Apr 24 @ 12:00 pm – 2pm @ Destiny Cafe, Atherton
This month’s theme is Business Masterminding.

The first

Showcase your product/business at Atherton Show (10th & 11th July)
FREE for Startup Tablelands financial members.

StartupTablelands has found that the biggest issue faced by rural startups is testing their minimum valuable product with their potential customer base.

Getting to market through the media, door to door or at mass events is expensive in both direct costs and time.

One of our initiatives is to help members by securing site space at events across the tablelands – members can showcase their own projects, meet their own market and also help ST by talking about how innovative business practices have helped them.

They don’t have site fees to pay and don’t need to be there for the whole day/event.
They can simply take on a 4-5h slot and help with the setup/pack down as appropriate.

All you have to do is be a financial member of StartupTablelands (it’s only $50 for the 2017-18 financial year if you sign up before June 30th, 2017 and $100 after that).
Once you become a member fill in our form at showcase.startuptablelands.org/signup and then book a slot at the Atherton Show by simply filling in your company name (same as in the form) in the worksheet here.

Spots at the Atherton show will be open until June 30th on a first come first served basis. Priority will be given to having as many members as possible represented which means that members would only be allowed one session if necessary.

Please contact [email protected] or call 0451 534 563 to discuss this further.

• The stall is 6m wide and 2m deep.
• Both ends of the stall will be used for ST/ATCC specific promotion only and will be permanently there. ST will have a TV running a powerpoint about each of the showcased projects and about ST itself. Example here.
• The remaining areas will be shared concurrently by 3 member projects/companies as per the schedule in this link (first come first served basis).
• Please add a comment requesting the slot with a 1-4 on order of priority if you are seeking more than one slot.
• If there are less than 15 participants -participants will be allowed to use more than one slot.
• Participants will need to purchase a ticket for entry to the show.
• Groups who are responsible for the first shift on Monday and the last shift on Tue will be responsible for setup and then packdown. George Corea (0451534563 / [email protected]) will be there at setup/packdown times.
• Groups are expected to be present in their stalls for whole duration of their allocated/chosen time slots.
• Groups materials shouldn’t be spread out more than equal shares. It’s expected that you will have 4m for a group of three to share and so banners, displays and other material that is specific to a group should be setup with a sharing mindset and should only be setup during the groups allocated time. At other times groups can leave brochures and business cards on the tables on either end and their info will be playing on the ST showcase screen on one end of the stall.
• Group members should be sufficiently familiar with ST to talk to people about the work we do as volunteers and the benefit of being a paid member.