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15 Dec 2011 - 2012 Wests Leagues Club Support
As the year wraps up, we’re pleased to announce that Wests Leagues Club will support us once again, as we take our programs to schools in the Campbelltown area! We’ll be contacting teachers early in the new year, but our calendar is already starting to fill out, so if you’d like to make a booking don’t hesitate to call or email our office!

23 Aug 2011 - Offer for Hurstville Primary Schools!
We are now offering the Survivor Life Skills Primary Program at a subsidised rate, to schools through Hurstville and the surrounding suburbs! After our success throughout Campbelltown and the Sutherland Shire, thanks to the support of Wests Leagues Club and the Salvation Army, we are pleased to offer the discounted Stage 3 Program to schools in the Hurstville Council Area. For more information on this limited offer, bookings, and other enquiries, please contact our office.

19 Aug 2011 - Survivor, Applications to Plan, Succeed, Prosper
Our new Survivor Book is out now, and available to order! It’s packed full of essential knowledge for people of all ages. The book includes chapters on budgeting, banking, insurance, stress-management, goal-setting, and so much more! Designed as an easy-to-read handbook on life, it’s a great gift for anyone, especially students leaving Year 12. The recommended retail price is $24.95, but for a limited time we’re offering it at the discount price of only $16.00!!! Get in quick, and contact us for details and orders!!

21 July 2011 - Brand new book... coming soon!
In some really exciting news, we are nearing the completion of our new book ’Survivor - Apps For Surviving Life’. Written as an easy-to-read handbook, and packed full of helpful websites and resources, it’s a must have for students and adults alike. We’re currently working on cover and illustrations, so stay tuned for more info...

10 July 2011 - Facebook Page Temporarily Closed
We’ve recently taken our Facebook page offline in order to re-build it and make some exciting changes. Stay tuned for the re-launch.

02 June 2011 - Salvation Army Sponsorship
Thanks to the Miranda Salvation Army we’ve also been able to continue bringing both the primary and high school programs to schools within the Sutherland Shire. With Miranda Church’s help, it’s great to be able to build ongoing relationships with all of the schools in this area!

01 June 2011 - Wests Sponsorship Update
The first half of the year has been super busy here at The Business Concierge. Amongst other things, we have taken our Survivor Life Skills programs to over 20 High Schools and Primary Schools in the Campbelltown area. This is thanks to the generous support of Wests Leagues Club, who have sponsored the program at each of those schools. The feedback from both teachers and students has been fantastic and we’ve really enjoyed visiting all of the schools involved!

22 Dec 2010 - Wests Leagues Club Sponsorship
We’re excited to announce that Wests Leagues Club has pledged an amount of sponsorship money that will allow us to take our high school and primary school programs to students in the Campbelltown area. We’ve already started taking bookings, and would like to thank Wests for the opportunity they have provided, both for us, and the students of Campbelltown.

22 Dec 2010 - Salvation Army Miranda Renews Support
In other sponsorship news, Miranda Salvation Army has decided to extend their sponsorship of our primary program into 2011. Already over 500 students in The Shire have been able to attend the course, and now we will be able add to that number! We would like to thank The Miranda Salvation Army for their ongoing support.

15 Dec 2010 - Happy Christmas 2010!!!
As we draw nearer to the end of the year, and business begins winding down over the Christmas period, we would just like to thank everyone who has been involved with the Business Concierge throughout 2010. It’s been a fantastic year of growth and opportunity, and we’re looking forward to continuing that in 2011. We hope that everyone has a safe and happy Christmas, and wish you all the best in the new year!

25 Nov 2010 - Miranda Salvation Army Support
We’d like to thank the Miranda Salvation Army for extending their support to our Survivor Life Skills Primary Program. Already their sponsorship has bought the program to over 500 years 5/6 students in the Sutherland Shire area.

27 Oct 2010 - Primary Schools Program
After almost a year in development, and a number of small trials, we have finally launched our Survivor Life Skills Primary Schools Program! The two-hour course is aimed at years 5 and 6 students, and uses games and activities to familiarize them with a wide variety of money-management ideas. We are extremely excited about this course, and feel it’s a great first step towards finance literacy! The rest of the term is already full, and we’re looking forward to seeing what 2011 will bring!

01 July 2010 - President Obama presents Louie Eroglu with an award
Check out our July Blog on Louie Eroglu. His story is amazing. He started his life in Australia as an immigrant living in Villawood Detention Centre. This year he received an award from president Obama...in the oval office. There is a photo of that award presentation. Thanks for sharing Louie! Look on our Links page for the blog page

20 June 2010 - Awesome new Video
We have just viewed the new video that we comissioned from Sketchbook Media. We are thrilled with the way it has turned out. It is a very powerful multimedia illustration of what we want people to get from our seminars

01 June 2010 - Julia Beasy- Journalist
Thanks to Julia for her very informative blog on how she became a journalist for The Salvation Army. We really appreciate your time when we know how busy your schedule is! Look on our Links page for the link to the Blog

01 May 2010 - Price Waterhouse Cooper Accountant Peter McClatchey shares his views of being an accountant
Thanks Peter for your very amusing blog to convince us that accountants are cool! Your blog was informative and amusing! Liked the jokes! Go to our Links page for the link to our blogspot

22 Apr 2010 - Facebook
In other exciting news, in the past month we have launched our brand new Facebook page. With almost everybody on some sort of social networking site these days, we realised that a Facebook page would allow us to add a whole new dimension to the program. No longer does the program just end when we leave the training room. Through Facebook we are now able to answer questions, continue encouraging people with their aims and goals and provide resources. As well as that, we have plenty of guest bloggers and exciting bits and pieces to keep adding as the year goes on!

01 Apr 2010 - Have you ever had a yearning to go to a USA Summer camp?
Kelly Stokes is our guest blogger this month showing that anyone can get to go to Summer Camp and recounts how she got there. Kelly is the Executive Assistant and Admin Manager for Eagle Boy Pizzas National Office. Thanks Kelly! Go to our links page for the blog spot link.

18 Mar 2010 - New-look Powerpoint!
It’s been some time since our last update, but rest-assured, that’s not for lack of news! 2009 proved to be our busiest year to date and already, 2010 is shaping up to be the same. We are excited to announce that, earlier this year, we completely re-vamped our powerpoint presentation. With technology always improving, it’s important for us to utilise whatever we can to keep our program unique and engaging. We’ve combined our new-look powerpoint with new pictures, music and even some videos, to create a multimedia aspect to our program, perfectly complimenting our workbooks and information. So far it’s been a success and we’re looking forward to getting it out there to more people!

07 Mar 2010 - Tradies Miranda Support for our Program
We are really excited to have Tradies Miranda support the implementation of our program for schools in the Sutherland Shire area. We really appreciate this support and would welcome other similar clubs support for other regions in NSW

03 Jan 2010 - Welcome Brendan
We are really pleased to announce that Brendan has taken on the State Manager position for Survivor. We are keen to see what great things he will implement for the business

01 Jan 2010 - Salvation Army Support Renewed for 2010!
We are very grateful to again have The Salvation Army renew their support of our program for 2010

23 Jan 2009 - Updated Website Launched
We are pleased to Launch our Updated website showing how our business has moved forward.

15 Jan 2009 - Rotary Caringbah supports our work in Sutherland Shire Schools
Rotary Caringbah have congratuated us on our work in Sutherland Shire Schools and have added their financial suppot to allow us to continue running the program in these schools for 2009. We thank them for their support.

01 Jan 2009 - Program launched at Salvation Army Employment Plus
In October, 2008, Howard was invited to present the Survivor Life Skills Program to both Regional Managers and Site Managers of Salvation Army Employment Plus. Following this Presentation, we ran a number of pilot programs in NSW Employment Plus sites. Following the great response and feedback, we are now running the program across NSW commencing January, 2009. As of the first of July we look forward to working with other sites throughout Australia.

01 Dec 2008 - Salvation Army Support Renewed for 2009!
We are very pleased to announce that The Salvation Army Territorial Headquarters have renewd their Support of our Program for 2009. We thank them for their ongoing support of our program.

19 Nov 2008 - Frater Award 4th year running
Howard received notification today that he has again received the Department Of Educations Performance In Schools Frater Awar for Excellence in Performance. Well done, Howard

05 June 2008 - Financial Literacy Launch
On June 3rd, Howard was invited to speak at Old Parliament House as a facilitator for the Finance Literacy Launch. His job was to be able to contextualise the whole program- thus making it real by giving real experiences and ideas from his vast experience within schools. The feedback that we got was that he did a great job, and as we would expect, used his enthusiastic approach to excite those attending and share the passion of the need for Finance Literacy in schools.

19 May 2008 - Treasury Department asks Howard to be the Face of the Finance Literacy Curriculum Launch
Howard has been asked to be involved in the National Launch of the Finance Literacy Foundations Curriculum launch, in Canberra, on June 3rd. He will be responsible for helping to put the Curriculum into context for teachers at the Launch.

19 May 2008 - Survivor Life Skills program- the preffered program to go into schools by the Finance Literacy Foundation!
Wow- We were really pleased and proud to be told that our program has been selected as the preferred program. We know that there are so many expectations within the curriculum to cover, and so to be the preferred program means by having us at your school, you know that we can come in for a day and offer your students a high quality program, and assist you in your efforts to offer your students the highest quality education, as well as easing the pressure the high expectations put upon you by the Curriculum.

05 May 2008 - Rave reviews for Lyn Beasy
We have had rave reviews for the fantastic workshop that Lyn has been providing to Year 11 and Year 12 students on Stress and the HSC. Lyn is a Psycholgist and is able to define stress for students and discuss with them and show them many varied techniques for coping with the stress of Assessments and exams in Year 11 and 12. Feedback has been that students carry the workbook around with them as a constant reminder of how they can keep stress to a minimum, but also harness it in a positive useful way. Well done, Lyn! If you would like to book Lyn to come out to your school, call us on (02) 9532 1982

17 Dec 2007 - Welcome Lyn Beasy
We are pleased to welcome Lyn Beasy to our team of Specialist Speakers. Lyn is a Qualified Psychologist and will be our Specialised Speaker for ’Stress and How to live with it’. This is a great subject for Year 12 in particular, starting their HSC studies.

21 Nov 2007 - Frater Award
Congratulations to Howard Smith who has received the official notification that he has won the Frater Award for Excellence in Performance from the Education Department’s Performance In Schools.This is Howard’s 3rd consecutive year winning this award.

09 Nov 2007 - Website Launch
With much fanfare and trumpet blowing (meaning high-fives all ’round) we launched our website today Thanks to Nathan and Tim and the team from Digerati Solutions for their patience with us. Great job guys!

02 Nov 2007 - 2008 Booking Mailout
We are typing up letters to go out to all our schools regarding them booking in for 2008. If you do not get one by mid- November or want to book for next year direct, please feel free to contact us. A number of our schools have standing bookings year to year. Chat to us if you would like to be one of those schools. Dates are filling up for 2008 quickly

01 Nov 2007 - MDWP Support 2008
Macquarie Darling Work Place have renewed their support to the Western NSW region for 2008

01 Nov 2007 - Salvation Army Miranda Support for 2008
We received notification that the schools of Sutherland Shire would be getting partial sponsorship from our great friends at The Salvation Army Miranda.

30 Oct 2007 - Compact Support for 2008
Compact at Wagga Wagga have once again renewed their support for schools in the Wagga Wagga region

20 Sept 2007 - Marketing Overhaul
We sat down with Frank from Cliff Lewis and overhauled the way our brochures look. They will be sent out with correspondence from the end of 2007

10 Sept 2007 - Major Update of Data
Thanks to Michael Anglin and Kerrie for their hard work in going over everything with a fine tooth comb and checking for major updates. Its good to know that a Lawyer originating from New York gives it a thumbs up.

05 Mar 2007 - Financial Literacy Foundation
Howard continued his work with the Financial Literacy Foundation in Canberra, as they move towards launching Finance Literacy Education in Australian Schools in 2008

02 Jan 2007 - Frater Award
Well done to Howard for receiving the Frater award (again) from The Department of Education. This award is for excellence in performance in schools.