Business Skills Mentoring Program: VIC small business owners in selected industry sectors

This program provides mentoring support to VIC small businesses to help them invest, expand and innovate.

What do you get?

Mentoring sessions.

Who is this for?

VIC small businesses in selected industry sectors.

Overview

The Business Skills Mentoring Program will provide up to 1,000 eligible small business owners with 3 one-hour mentoring sessions to be used with 3 months.

Experienced mentors can provide advice on a wide range of business topics, including but not limited to:

• marketing
• communication
• finance
• strategic planning
• digitalisation
• change management

The program is for small businesses in 6 priority sectors:

• advanced manufacturing and defence
• agribusiness
• circular economy
• digital technologies
• health technologies and medical research
• regional tourism

To be eligible, businesses must:

• be registered in VIC and operating within one of the 6 priority sectors
• be registered for goods and services tax (GST)
• have an Australian business number (ABN), held continuously from 1 December 2024
• have 20 or fewer employees