Whether it is a joint venture, cross-promotion, or major community event, we help our clients navigate the complexities and maximise the opportunities.

We offer support in strategic planning, stakeholder management, audience research, event coordination and fundraising. We aim to bring not only our expertise, but also offer a fresh perspective, providing insights and ideas that might not have been considered otherwise.

We help breathe life into public spaces, enhancing their vibrancy and engaging the community through dynamic events and initiatives. These activations often involve temporary installations, performances, workshops, or festivals that activate and transform the space, encouraging people to gather, participate, and connect with their surroundings in meaningful ways.

From contracted talent to managing the logistics, budgeting to capturing high-quality video and imagery, we can help you deliver a seamless and engaging experience for your audience.

We can prepare a comprehensive analysis of current fundraising and sponsorship activities, which helps to identify key areas for improvement. It involves a competitor analysis, evaluation of current income channels, and identification of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in the fundraising process. The aim is to optimise fundraising efforts and increase the chance of success.

We use a variety of methods to uncover potential funding partners, including database searches, online research, and targeted outreach. We gather information on the funding priorities, giving history and decision-making processes of potential sponsors to ensure a well-informed approach. Our research process is thorough, ensuring that the prospects we identify are well-suited to your organisation's needs and objectives. We aim to save you valuable time and resources, by providing a clear understanding of the funding landscape and organisation most likely to support you.

We can help you build and maintain strong and effective relationships with key stakeholders, such as customers, suppliers, partners, and employees. We help organisations identify their stakeholders, understand their needs and expectations, and develop strategies for engaging with them in a meaningful way.

Securing sponsorship requires a well-defined strategy and a clear understanding of the target audience and the value that sponsorship can bring to the sponsor. We can act on your behalf, or guide you through the process, helping you to build relationships with potential sponsors, create compelling sponsorship proposals, and negotiate agreements that meet the needs of both parties.

The grant writing process can be complex and competitive, but with the right approach, we can help you achieve success. An effective grant proposal must clearly articulate the need for funding and how the funds will be used to achieve specific goals and objectives but also requires a deep understanding of the funding organisations’ goals and priorities. We have extensive experience in preparing successful grant proposals to secure funding from foundations, corporations, or government agencies.

Our wealth of experience and knowledge, having worked on many events in the past, can help ensure your next event is unique, memorable, and runs smoothly. Additionally, we can handle all aspects of event planning, from concept development to execution, freeing up internal resources for other tasks.

We can help you better understand your audience’s needs, behaviours, opinions, and motivations. We can conduct research through various methods, including surveys, focus groups, online analytics, and demographic analysis. The goal of audience research is to gain insight into the audience's attitudes and preferences, and to use this information to inform future strategy.

Acquittals are used to provide evidence on the use of secured funds and to demonstrate the outcomes and impacts of a funded project or program. We can assist through this critical process by reviewing project expenses, collecting data and evidence to demonstrate project outcomes, and preparing a report that outlines the achievements, challenges, and lessons learned. It is important to be thorough, accurate, and transparent in the acquittal process to build trust with the funding organisation and secure future funding opportunities.

Founder

Michelle Connery

Michelle is a dedicated and results-driven professional with a passion for business development and events. With over 20 years of experience in the industry, Michelle is known for thinking outside the square and securing vital funding to enable and elevate both corporate and community events.

Michelle possesses a unique combination of high-level communication and negotiation skills, strategic planning, budgeting expertise, project management, and creative thinking. These skills have been honed through years of experience in stakeholder management, developing and delivering local and national fundraising campaigns, contract management, and event activations.

Michelle has led business development for Brisbane Festival, G20 Cultural Celebrations, Strut n Fret, QMusic and Aurizon and formed extensive corporate and creative networks throughout Australia.

& some words of reassurance

“Michelle is a dynamic event manager who not only was able to broaden the vision for my own event concept but to execute it much more strategically and successfully than I imagined it could be done. She is a pleasure to work with and I recommend her highly.”

– Matt Kirkegaard, Brew News

“Michelle provided invaluable advice and support to Lividia Ltd as we set up our Asia Pacific Business in Brisbane. She created opportunities for us to connect with local government and businesses and maintained these relationships as we established ourselves in the local market.  Michelle's ability to communicate clearly, manage relationships and keep abreast of opportunities as they arose ensured a comfortable transition of our team.”

– Jason Adcock, Lividia