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Welcome to another Newcastle Business People newsletter, a resource that provides our local businesses with data insights, news and upcoming events, as well as opportunities to help your business grow.
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City Analytics
Source: ABS, Labour Force, Australia, Detailed, ABS, Regional Population.
*Labour force data is for the Newcastle / Lake Macquarie SA4 region, which covers the majority of the two local government areas [LGA]. Population Growth Rate data is for the Newcastle LGA.
Consumer Spending
Newcastle's economic expenditure for the January-March quarter saw a change in total local spend of -12.1%, just below the NSW trend of -11.3%. This is to be expected as wallets recover from the heavy spending period in the lead up to Christmas.
Visitors to the LGA enjoyed a splurge this quarter with their spending averaging more than that of Newcastle residents for every day of the week with the exception of Sunday.
Sunday saw a reduction in economic expenditure when compared to average figures for other days of the week, likely reflecting the decrease in trading hours.
Source: Spendmapp by Geographia (2023).
Online Job Advertisements Index
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Online job advertisements in the region are remaining well above pre-COVID 19 rates, with April 2023 figures seeing an 8% increase compared to April 2022. 
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Education professionals recorded the largest increase in online job advertisements (up 58 job advertisements or 79%) when compared to April 2022.During April 2023 job advertisements dropped by 5% with increases only recorded in the Farm, Forestry and Garden workers and Education professionals (up 7% respectively), along with the Machine and Stationary Plant operators and Hospitality workers (up 2% respectively). |
List your business with the Australian Tourism Data Warehouse
The City of Newcastle app and Visit Newcastle tourism website help promote local businesses, experiences, places and events.
Information is listed via the Australian Tourism Data Warehouse (ATDW) so be sure to keep your information up to date! We have a helpful how-to guide to help you make your listing here.
Open Soon: Locally Made and Played Grants
As part of our support for the arts and culture sectors of the city, we will be running a Locally Made and Played live music grant program in conjunction with the New Annual festival from 22 September – 1 October 2023.
Funding is available for artist and performer fees with both profit and not for profit organisations eligible.
Keep an eye out for when applications open mid-July.
Opportunities, Programs and Support
Take a look at some resources we've compiled below that might be of interest to you. We'll aim to update these each month as we watch out for opportunities, training, and funding available for local business like yours.
Have Your Say with City of Newcastle
Visit Have Your Say to join the conversation so we can achieve a livable, inclusive and sustainable Newcastle together.
Take a look at the current projects open for participation:
- Widening and Upgrade of Longworth Avenue, Wallsend
- Australian Liveability Census
Support for Women in Business
Service NSW offers targeted resources to help connect women with personalised support, opportunities for networking, education and training, grants, funding and mental health support to make it easier for more women to succeed in business.
Take a look at the Women in Business Hub.
Utilise free recruitment resources
Let your recruitment campaign shine with free images, information and videos from Imagine Newcastle available here.
Invite your next superstar employee to Imagine Newcastle by including a link to movetonewcastle.com.au in your job ads to showcase all that Newcastle has to offer.
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