Vic Park Women in Business: Sustainable Business, Real Impact

Vic Park Women in Business

Networking in Perth can feel pretty transactional. You turn up, swap business cards with people who want to sell you something, get added to a mailing list, and drive home wondering why you bothered.

This is not that.

What it is

A free lunchtime gathering for women who own, lead or manage a business in the Town of Victoria Park. About twenty of us in a room. Two local businesses host, share their space, and tell you the honest version of how they got started. Then there is time to actually talk to each other.

It is not a referral group and it is not a pitch night. Nobody is required to bring leads. There are no round-the-room introductions where everyone rehearses their thirty seconds instead of listening. Nobody is selling you anything.

What happens on the day

Your host is Jo Bussell of Urban Revolution, a sustainable living store, and we will be in her shop at the Carlisle Collective. Sofia Katzin of FlyMumma, which supports insect farms and circular economy ventures, is our second co-host.

This one is about sustainability in a practical way. Jo will talk about the impact of plastics in the everyday items most of us use without thinking. Everyone goes home with a product to help them be more sustainable.

To get into the spirit, bring your own cup, glass or mug (for drinking), and a small glass or metal container or jar with a lid (for your product). We would rather you drink from your own cup than add to a pile of disposables.

Then Jo and your Sofia each take a few minutes to tell you why they started what they started. Not what they sell. Why they began, what it took, and what they would say to someone sitting there wondering whether to do the same. Every event in this series does this, and it is the part people remember.

The Carlisle Collective is closed to the public on Tuesdays, so we will have Jo's space to ourselves, with no market bustle around us. The rest of the lunch is yours.

The practical bits

Tuesday 10 November 2026. Doors from 11.45am, we start at 12.00pm and finish by 2.00pm.

Urban Revolution, Carlisle Collective, 134 Oats Street, Carlisle.

Free to attend. Lunch and drinks provided. Please tell us about any dietary needs when you book.

Please bring your own cup, glass or mug, and a small glass or metal container or jar with a lid.

Parking: free parking is available on the Carlisle Collective site. Signs will point you to the shop on the day.

There is a toilet on site and the space is indoors, with outdoor seating if the weather is kind. Places are limited, so please let us know if you can no longer come and we will pass your spot to someone on the waitlist.

This is the second of six

Vic Park Women in Business runs to June 2027. Six gatherings, each hosted by different local businesses, at different times of day. Morning, lunchtime and evening, so you can come to the ones that fit around your life rather than the ones that suit us.

Come to one or come to all of them. The point of a series rather than a one-off is that you see the same faces again, and that is how you actually get to know people.

Who should come

Women who own or lead a business in the Town of Victoria Park. Women managing a business or a team. Creatives, makers, practitioners, sole traders, people two weeks into something new and people twenty years in.

Come on your own. Most people will be.

With thanks

This series is funded by the Town of Victoria Park through its Economic Development Grants program, and hosted by The Procurement Coach.