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Applications are closed for 2019


Wild Idea wants to help you turn that idea into a business.

Do you have an idea that could help our natural environment?


Want to make a real difference to Australia's plants and animals?

Drought, bushfires and floods have significantly impacted our natural environment - which means it's never been more important to re-build and support our biodiversity.

 

Wild Idea is a start-up business mentoring program, designed to support innovators, environmentalists and entrepreneurs who are passionate about protecting our natural environment through business.   


We believe in the power of businesses, innovation and people like you, filled with creativity, passion and determination, to make environmental change.

 

Wild Idea is a free program, open to applicants from across Australia (over 18 years of age).

Australia's biodiversity needs your ideas. 

**2020 APPLICATIONS CLOSED**

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Applications for the 2020 program are closed, but we're always excited to hear from keen environmental entrepreneurs. 

Applications for the 2020 program are closed, but we're always excited to hear from keen environmental entrepreneurs. 

Are you ready to unlock your wild idea?

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Take part in fortnightly group coaching calls and fortnightly personalised performance coaching. Industry-leading guest speakers will join the check-ins to share their knowledge.  

Connect and work with mentors and our incredible partners to build your brand and business. 

Weekly lessons tailored to the needs of your business, by our coaches. Business training is delivered by leading entrepreneur educator Venture Organic.

Attend multi-day digital retreats, to take you from early-stage idea through to commercial launch.


 TAILORED LEARNING

TOP MENTORS AND LEADERS 

PERSONALISED COACHING

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IMMERSIVE DIGITAL RETREATS

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THE DIGITAL INCUBATOR CREATED FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO IMPROVE OUR PLANET

Wild Idea is a personalised, six month, webinar-based incubation program that will take your business from early-stage idea, through to commercial launch. It’s a process of rapid growth for your business idea and you as a founder.


As a participant, you will receive expert mentoring and personalised performance coaching, a chance to connect and work with a supportive, dynamic cohort of change-makers, plus introductions to your first customers, potential co-founders and investors.

Applications for the 2020 program are closed, but we're always excited to hear from keen environmental entrepreneurs. 

Are you ready to unlock your wild idea?

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Wild Idea acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land on which we live, learn and work. We celebrate their continuing cultural, social, environmental and economic connection to land, sea, and community, and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.

 In 2019, we worked with four amazing business to address the challenge: How can we better conserve nature, and increase the protection of threatened species and their survival in the wild?


Learn more about each team and their business below. 

Edgars Greste, Susannah Kable
Grow Love Project

Grow ​Love Project advocates for a healthy, bio-diverse and sustainable Australian food system. The team educates, inspires and connects farmers with customers to grow the movement towards eating for healthy people and a healthy planet.

Martin Collings
Charopy
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Charopy solves the problem of contamination in recycling bins and works with primary schools to make recycling more fun. Charopy has also raised awareness of NSW threatened species in schools, through their 'Build Your Own Colony' game. 

Dave Brook
OwlBnB
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Dave makes habitat, every day - for any native animal, anywhere that's safe for them. To make sure 'No owl shall remain homeless', he is exploring ways owls can  safely live, hunt and reproduce in agricultural and urban environments. 

2019 WILDLINGS

Martin Collings, Charopy
Susannah Kable and Edgars Greste, The Grow Love Project

Jessie Panazzolo
Lonely Conservationists
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Jessie created Lonely Conservationists to help conservationists thrive. With almost 2000 conservationists in her community, Jessie believes there is enough human power to conserve the 60% of threatened species impacted by agriculture across the planet. 

Jessie Panazzolo, Lonely Conservationists
Dave Brook, OwlBnB

NEW SPOTS JUST ADDED!

Our online open day last week sold out, so we have opened more spots on Friday 24 May and Tuesday 28 May. Chat directly with the Wild Idea coaches, receive immediate feedback on your idea and discuss whether the program is right for you. 


Book your 20 min consultation now.

WANT TO KNOW MORE?

NEW SPOTS JUST ADDED!

Our online open day last week sold out, so we have opened more spots on Friday 24 May and Tuesday 28 May. Chat directly with the Wild Idea coaches, receive immediate feedback on your idea and discuss whether the program is right for you. 


Book your 20 min consultation now.

WANT TO KNOW MORE?