I have been a member of the Manningham Business Network Group for over a year. I have found it is a great way to connect with local businesses & have external support for our businesses being Accounting & Financial Planning. We are established in business & are continually evolving so MBN contributes to this through further learning from the open meetings speakers & visitors, & a variety of members businesses. The members-only meetings allow me to get to know the other members businesses & how they can work with our business. I highly recommend MBN for a small business owner or nominee.

It has been great to see your work more closely and the outcomes and the effort you and your team makes is great. I congratulate you all in what the Business Network is doing.

I joined MBN over a year ago when I was looking for a new community to connect with and get to know. MBN was very easy to integrate with, they are very welcoming and inclusive. I have met some incredible business owners I would otherwise have not and also had the honour of working with some of them.

Councillors are meant to have a lot of interests. I have purposely chosen “small business” as I feel they play a very important role in the economic advancement of our municipality. I am member of a Ministerial advisory Committee about small business and I am taking steps to steer Council in considering this area as a priority. 

Please pass on my Comments to the board of MBN and feel free to approach me if you need my assistance. 

Having just clicked over our first year in business the MBN members have been a great support in sharing this journey with us.

Interesting speakers on relevant topics, the opportunity to network with other businesses, words of wisdom shared in closed meetings and just a kind word of encouragement make it worth getting up early on a Tuesday morning!

It’s great value for our investment.

I want to express my thanks to the network for the excellent presentations. Last Tuesday’s presentation from fellow member Luke Dam was exceptional. I drove away thinking that there is so much wisdom and experience within the MBN group that it is always a pleasure and honour to attend.

The Members’ Forum sessions are really valuable – I was thinking of the cost to organisations to hold workshops of that standard to be presented to staff and how lucky we are to have that expertise provided as part of our membership.

Thanks again for inviting me to present at your April Open Meeting.
I was super impressed by your generous and supportive network and was very grateful to everyone for making me feel so welcome.