Rural Edge continues to receive high levels of demand for our business skills workshops all across WA.
Thanks to the support of our partners, Rural Edge is able to continue to deliver farm business workshops to regional communities at a subsidised participant rate. Workshop delivery locations are currently based on partnership support received for particular workshops and requests from local host communities. However, all of our workshops are ready to hit the road and we know there are lots of communities that want workshops now.
For those workshops that currently do not have partnership support, Rural Edge has introduced a flexible co-investment model with farming communities. By co-investing, Rural Edge can guarantee the delivery of any of our suite of workshops at a time that is most convenient to you.
Options for accessing a Rural Edge workshop include:
$2,000
Your group or organisation provides $2,000 co-investment (can be through funding, grants or local sponsorship)
Rural Edge can guarantee* delivery of your requested workshop in your town with participants paying the Rural Edge registration fee.
Rural Edge participant fee applies which is $350 + GST per participant (and $175+GST for additional participants from the same farm business)
$5,000
Your group or organisation provides $5,000 co-investment (can be through funding, grants or local sponsorship)
This co-investment allows you to effectively ‘buy’ a one-day workshop of your choice, which means you can offer the workshop ‘free’ to your community**.
Wait
Wait until Rural Edge can source funding to deliver in your community.
Rural Edge participant fee will apply.
An estimated time frame is a minimum of 6 months. We will be back in touch in six months to let you know how we are progressing.
*Assumes a minimum of eight paying participants. **Maximum of 20 participants per workshop
A few additional points of information:
Grant applications – Rural Edge will happily provide a detailed letter of support to any group applying for grant funds. Please email Debra Mullan via admin@ruraledge.org.au with details. A number of communities have already successfully applied to funding sources (i.e. NRM sustainable farming grants, some local governments have funding rounds, Department of Communities Grants for Women etc) for a Rural Edge workshop.
Corporate sponsorship– We will happily include your sponsors’ logos on the workshop marketing materials that we provide and the sponsor is also welcome to formally open and close the workshop (five mins. maximum). Due to degree of negotiation involved in corporate partnerships, Rural Edge is not able to negotiate individual sponsorships, however, if you know of a business that is interested in supporting three or more workshops in your region please let us know.
Workshop format- Content and format of workshops is set to ensure quality and continuity of training. Workshops run for 6 hours and we recommend timing of 9am to 3pm- changes to this timing may incur additional expense.
Rural Edge will continue to advocate for access to high quality, accessible, industry specific, business skills training and PD on behalf of farmers in WA.
Information about hosting a Rural Edge workshop
Rural Edge organises the facilitator, workshop materials, undertakes all registrations and payment (online via our website), provides a pdf marketing flyer and online marketing support via social media and our ‘In the Loop’ eNews. However, for the workshop to run smoothly we need a local contact/host on ground to coordinate (this can be an individual, Community Resource Centre, grower group or other community group). We ask for assistance with:
The venue needs the following requirements:
A local caterer/ community group to provide the following for the workshop (we will update on numbers and dietary requests closer to the workshop date):
You know your community best and have established networks so we ask that the local host:
We ask that the local host be available to:
All marketing, venue, catering and equipment hire costs are covered by Rural Edge. When we book your workshop date we give an approximate budget for each. As the local host we ask that you provide suppliers with our name and contact details for invoicing.
Fill in the details below to request a workshop in your local area.