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Our Enterprise programme supports all entrepreneurs and small business owners in the veteran community, including transitioning Defence members, military veterans, and ADF partners of current or former serving members.
Our free programmes are designed to help you:
Build the confidence to pursue self-employment, including entrepreneurship and small business.
Enhance the skills you need to thrive in the rapidly changing world of work, including as an intrapreneur within a business.
Connect with like-minded business owners and build new networks across Australia.
Every entrepreneurial journey starts with an idea — Enterprise Online gives you the tools you need to make your idea a reality while connecting you with likeminded veterans and family members across Australia.
Whatever stage on your journey, Enterprise Online helps you figure out the life you want and, if appropriate, safely build a business to suit it.
Along the way, we'll support you to build the skills and confidence you need to prepare for, and respond to, the rapidly changing world of work. So if you decide self-employment isn't right for you, or you need a sea change, you've got some great tools in the toolbox to help you take your next step.
If you have already started a business or a side hustle, we encourage you to start your journey with us here. This programme is great for carving out much-needed time to work on your business, with the right foundations to support your business' growth.
Each programme includes three, two-hour facilitated online sessions, held across two weeks. Our facilitated sessions are supported by self-directed learning modules, accessed online.
Our Enterprise Online programme is delivered separately for veterans and ADF family members. We work with no more than 15 participants per programme to ensure our content is tailored and relevant to your circumstances.
Struggling to understand the dollars and cents? Need to pull together your business plan? Looking for support to understand your legal and financial responsibilities?
Enterprise Connect helps you accelerate your business. Offered four times a year, the Enterprise Connect programme is open to alumni of Enterprise Online.
Collaborating with experts across Australia, Enterprise Connect is a series of facilitated online sessions, held over two months. Each session is supported by self-directed content, technical resources, and bespoke mentoring opportunities.
The Enterprise Connect programme is delivered for both veterans and ADF families simultaneously. We work with no more than 15 participants per program to ensure our content is tailored and relevant to your circumstances. All of our programmes are trauma-informed.
Community is key, and we'd love to share ours with you. Support your business by engaging in our robust network of resources, networks and mentors.
From virtual meetups with business experts and industry-based community catch-ups, to connecting with local support services and participating in Buy Veteran initiatives, we're always innovating new programmes and events to support our growing community.
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Stay tuned! We're working behind the scenes on a new accelerator programme for early-stage businesses from 2022.
Register your interest below if you'd like to join our newest programme.
A note on our work
Prince’s Trust Australia works closely with our alumni, the Department of Defence and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to ensure our programmes meet the needs of Australia’s Defence community. This includes working with Defence Transition Coaches, trusted ex-service partners, and veteran community businesses.
We are guided by an Advisory Council, chaired by the His Excellency, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC, and attended by Head of People Capability Major General Natasha Fox AM CSC, and ADF Financial Services Consumer Centre Chairman Air Commodore Robert Brown AM.
We respect our participants and are committed to the highest safeguarding standards. Our programmes are trauma informed.
All staff hold Working with Children Checks and police clearances.