Micro Enterprise Project

Micro Enterprise Project (MEP) can support you to start your own small business which is aligned with your own passions, skills and situation.

The step-by-step MEP process:

Discovery: Identify your skills, passions and available resources
Exploration: Craft product ideas and design your business model
Creation: Launch your business, test products and refine
Operation: Monitor your business success and adjust it as needed.

Want to know more?

Read the Introduction to Micro Enterprise and starting your own business.
Come along to a Discover Micro Enterprise – Exploring Possibilities introduction session and practical workshop. Events are being held across Adelaide and regional SA in 2021.
Find out more about the people who have a micro enterprise in articles and videos below.

Leafy green vegetables in a basket with a hand written sign on cardboard "home grown organic greens" — When people first meet, one of the questions asked is usually; “So What Do You Do?” We seek to give people a great answer to that question. Community Living Project is going on the road in February, hosting workshops to introduce people to Micro Enterprise Micro Enterprise – a career […]

Micro Enterprise Workshops – Gawler and Victor Harbor

11 Jan, 2021 in Events / Micro Enterprise Project / News by Taryn Waters

Since 2011, Jayne Barrett has managed the design and trialling of CLP’s Micro Enterprise Project which assists people who live with significant disabilities to have their own small business as an alternative to attending day programs. People who live with significant disabilities have traditionally only been offered recreation services in […]

Introduction to Micro Enterprise and starting your own business

1 Jan, 2021 in Micro Enterprise Project by Prue Gorman

smiling adult male in bright red bomber jacket, flat brim cap and black tshirt with bright image of an astronaut poses in front of a painted mural in a railway underpass — Ben talks about bringing his business dreams to reality in the article below. Ben’s mum also Sam shares how they used the NDIS to help start Ben’s microenterprise. Read that article here: https://www.downsyndrome.org.au/voice/2020/12/01/microenterprise-and-the-ndis/ No fashion victim

No fashion victim – Hazzah apparel article in Voice magazine

11 Dec, 2020 in Micro Enterprise Project by Taryn Waters

a tray of freshly cooked biscuits — Adrian’s enterprise Something for Stella, and micro enterprise consultant Sandi based in the South East, were featured in an article by Indaily Dog start-up success achieved through Micro Enterprise Project

Something for Stella – article from Indaily

22 Jul, 2020 in Micro Enterprise Project by Taryn Waters

Micro Enterprise Project – Video by CLP

15 Apr, 2020 in Micro Enterprise Project by Taryn Waters

Bags of dried fruit lined up. Label by Jocelynne — See how Jocelynne’s home has been designed to meet her accessibility needs, and how getting these things right and knowing her strengths and interests has been the foundation of a great micro enterprise. Watch to the end to see how Jocelynne spends her time when she has a break from […]

What is possible? – video about a micro enterprise owner

6 Sep, 2019 in Micro Enterprise Project by Taryn Waters

Go Get ‘Em is a registered business which runs Emily’s business and employs Kiera, Emily’s Business Assistant. Go Get ‘Em is a microbusiness; what this means is that it exists only to provide for Emily’s direct benefit. It is a vehicle for Emily’s growth, development and independence.Emily is working for […]

Go Get ‘Em – Errands with Heart – article

28 Aug, 2017 in Micro Enterprise Project by Prue Gorman

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