Dr Ernesto Sirolli will be in Toodyay in June for a 3 day training workshop for those working to develop local economies. If you wish to express your interest in attending the workshop please do so by email: greg@livingcommunities.com.au Cost will be $2500. 12 spots only…. We’ll send you a [...]

Toodyay’s Business and Community Enterprise Expo, held on March 12, was a shining example of exactly what the expo is all about. Not only did many local people get to find out about businesses they didn’t know existed in their local community, but the businesses themselves managed to network and [...]

Lake Grace held their Business and Community Enterprise Expo on February 17. A resounding success, there is now talk of making it a twice yearly event. Here’s the feedback we recieved from stallholders… “Well organised.” “Seeing so many people come out and support this event was a very positive feeling.” [...]

Living Towns is currently on the hunt for an economist we can engage from time to time with our projects. We need an economist who’s business is based in Western Australia. What we’re looking for is someone who understands and believes in Living Town’s approach, that is, the economy is [...]

Living Communities Lake Grace has launched its project its Business and Community Enterprise Expo on February 17. An extremely successful event put together entirely with the hard work and dedication of the local Living Communities team. Fifty per cent of the community’s businesses exhibited and the feedback collected suggests that [...]

We are pleased to announce that IGA Supermarkets, through their Community Chest fund have become a partner of Living Towns and hence, our Living Communities projects. IGA supermarkets are locally owned and run supermarkets, in fact there is one in just about every small town. We chose them as a [...]

As we near Christmas, the action in town in Goomalling will start to quieten as harvest finishes and people look to holidays, which inevitably means leaving town for a few weeks. However, over this quiet period in town, the Living Towns team are working on the Goomalling Economic data and [...]

People will only shop local if it is in their immediate best interests to do so. That’s human nature. No amount of guilt, persuasion and appealing to the greater good will convince anyone to spend money with a business that is rude, providing an inferior product or not interested in [...]

We’re actively engaged in finding partners to work with us on our three pilot towns at the moment. We’ve sought partners who not only have a connection to rural and regional Australia but have a business model which is closely aligned to our philosophy and guiding principles. Although we are [...]