South Asian Women in Business Powered By Business Victoria

Empowering South Asian women owned small businesses through capacity building, facilitating connectivity & amplifying founders.

Project Goals

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Elevate, amplify & promote members of Australin South Asian Centre who own small businesses, including artists, founders & social enterprises.

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Enable local business collaboration and networking through events.

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Educate, inform and empower multicultural small businesses with a focus on South Asian women (Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan). Support culturally diverse small businesses to build capability and grow Promote and activate local economic activity

Four Events & Workshops To Connect & Build Capacity

We held four key events for South Asian women owned founders from Feb – June 2025 attended by 181 people in Melbourne.

We Launched a Business Directory

A searchable comprehensive listing of 50+ women owned businesses – from clothing rental, skincare, education, coaching, restaurants, design, tech, arts and more

Explore The Directory

Amplifying & Promoting Founders – Member Profiles

We published 6x member profiles of founders and promoted them across our mailing list to over 3000+ subscribers and across our social media.

Read Member Profiles

$3000 Side Hustle Fund

Thanks to a donation from Payments Consulting Network we managed to leverage the government funding to also create a $3000 funding pool for women founders. The successful applicants will be announced by August.