Supporting your small business community: a guide for local councils
Supporting your small business community: a guide for local councils
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Councils can play an important role in supporting the success of small businesses in local communities.
Councils can help business communities by supporting them to better navigate council services and approval processes and providing initiatives and resources to support small business development. This includes working with small businesses to minimise the impact of disruption when carrying out public infrastructure works and proactively engaging with the small business sector to better understand their needs.
This guide is targeted at council economic development staff who would like to better understand the needs of their small business stakeholders.
The guide includes a range of tips and resources, as well as case studies from metropolitan and regional NSW Councils. Councils may wish to utilise this guide for ideas and strategies to include in their Community Strategic Plan, Delivery Program and Operational Plan, or as a reference when developing or updating an Economic Development Strategy.