We assist and support Rural, Regional and Remote entrepreneurs
progressing their business and career dreams

A short summary of the WiRE Program

We assist and support RRR women entrepreneurs progressing their business and entrepreneurial dreams. The WiRE program aims to promote and cultivate women's entrepreneurship and innovation in rural, regional and remote (RRR) Australia, particularly Queensland, by delivering an integrated capacity-building program. The objective of the WiRE program is to promote entrepreneurship through enhancing individual and organisational awareness, participation, skills, entrepreneurial behaviour, competencies and capacity, building support networks, sharing knowledge, growing resilient communities and creating sustainable change in particularly the Queensland region. 

WHAT WE WANT TO ACHIEVE

In the short-term:

  • Bright ideas of women anywhere in RRR Australia can be actioned and brought to the market through the WiRE Program

  • Cultivate more RRR women entrepreneurs with the right skills

  • Increase early stage funding for RRR women entrepreneurs

  • Help women grow their businesses through digital skills and tools

  • Enhance an entrepreneurial awareness and culture in RRR Australia

  • Assist women in rural, regional and remote entrepreneurs to progress their careers

In the long term:

  • Increase women-owned businesses

  • Increase women in leadership positions in organisations

  • Increase self-employment and employment opportunities

  • Increase women’s access to finance and enhance  their life-long financial position

  • Increase innovation capacity and entrepreneurship

  • Build rural economies through women’s innovation

  • Re-design the rural innovation eco-system

The program endeavours to stimulate entrepreneurial activity and innovative behaviour, help start and grow for-profit and not-for-profit businesses and ventures, create important networks and help maximise participants' growth, and provide them access to mentors, expert advice, and new markets.

The experienced program leadership team has conducted several international programs to empower women through entrepreneurship and innovation. Find out more about these projects.