To stay up to date with all things Covid-19, visit Coronavirus (COVID-19) Victoria | Coronavirus Victoria. The website has the resources for your business, including CovidSafe Plans, Testing, Vaccination, Grants/Funding and all recent updates to restrictions. You can also call the Coronavirus Hotline 24hrs a day on 1800 675 398.

Great Ocean Road Regional Tourism has been delivering the campaign ’52 Great Weekends’ encouraging people to explore the Great Ocean Road region. Lauren Doolan (aka the @micro_adventurist) each week profiles a location, with a blog and an episode, for people to discover on and around the Great Ocean Road.
A number of locations in Corangamite Shire have been featured, including the most recent episode No 44: Inland Towns.
 
NO 4: PORT CAMPBELL
NO. 8: VOLCANIC LAKES & PLAINS
NO 11: GREAT OCEAN WALK
NO 20: SHIPWRECK COAST
NO 27: WESTERN END
NO 29: TIMBOON
NO 34: 12 APOSTLES FOOD ARTISANS (Gourmet Trail)
NO 36: GREAT GOLF COURSES
 
For more information, read the blogs and to watch the episodes visit 52 GREAT WEEKENDS - VISIT GREAT OCEAN ROAD.

Visit Victoria has launched a Great Ocean Road series and extraordinary Great Ocean Road locals feature in the new TV ad encouraging Victorians to take a trip to the famed region during the off-peak season.
The campaign airs at a critical time for the region, aimed at driving visitation into the off-peak seasons. Tourism operators are encouraged to get involved in the Stay close, go further campaign via the industry toolkit.

The past two years have changed the way businesses operate and use digital tools. So what's next?  Business.gov.au have identified 3 key digital opportunities that can help you to grow and sustain your business.
Trend 1: Online shopping and payments
Trend 2: Video at all stages of the customer journey
Trend 3: Improvements in customer service
To read more about the trends go to: 3 digital trends for small businesses to follow in 2022 | business.gov.au

This month, Business Victoria released wellbeing and mental health support for Victorian business initiatives. It's available and FREE to support small business owners and employees. If you need support, please visit the following links.

Westvic Dairy have organised this program to help farmers maximise farm profit by providing the skills and tools to grow the maximum quantity of high quality pasture on farm and confidently use purchased feeds to increase farm profitability.

A free one-on-one consultation is available for each participating farm business.
The program runs over twelve months, starting with two theory days and followed by five on-farm days which focus on the challenges of each season. Day 1 commences Tuesday 5 April 2022, 10am-2.30pm, Timboon.