CONFECTIONARY maker Bendigo Brittle was recently announced as one of a hundred winners of Australia Post\u2019s Local Business Heroes program.<\/p>\n
The program aims to recognise and support smaller businesses with more than 5000 enterprises nominated this year, with the winners receiving a $5000 business package.<\/p>\n
Bendigo Brittle founder and CEO Greta Donaldson said it was a special relationship that led to the nomination.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe really get on well with the guys down at the Golden Square Business Hub,\u201d she said. \u201cThey\u2019re a good mob and really supportive.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey said \u2018the Local Business Heroes are coming up again and we\u2019d like to nominate you\u2019 so I got online and had a look at it and thought I am really going to have a go at this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Entering the program came at a good time for Ms Donaldson who said she needed to create a short film on the business for a separate reason.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt said you could write your application or you could do a video,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI started writing a script, we had to have it all done by February, so we went down to Castlemaine Farmers Market and filmed down there one day, and it all came together.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew with the team I have and the team putting it together it would come up really well and I was really pleased with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
When the winning call came through Ms Donaldson said she was thrilled, and the next job was putting together the $5000 business package that came as the prize.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe prize itself was a choice of eight $1000 prizes of which we could select five,\u201d she said. \u201cThey\u2019re all to do with helping the business.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a little laptop and a printer, some computer software as well. There was a 12-month business coaching part of it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are also some posters that will go up on the local post office wall for a month, but they have been known to stay up for the year which is really nice to get that exposure.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Australia Post, the 2023 Local Business Heroes program saw an increase of over 400 per cent in applications from last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CONFECTIONARY maker Bendigo Brittle was recently announced as one of a hundred winners of Australia Post\u2019s Local Business Heroes program. The program aims to recognise and support smaller businesses with more than 5000 enterprises nominated this year, with the winners receiving a $5000 business package. Bendigo Brittle founder and CEO Greta Donaldson said it was […]<\/p>\n