Thank you for coming with us on the journey that was 2022.

It was such a privilege to share local business stories through our digital networks. Our digital outreach, climbed to a stunning record high, interacting with 944,360 people, whilst we took our first tentative steps into the world of Tik Tok, which sits in the top 5 learning platforms in our country.

We continued to stand up for local business, by shining a spotlight on the skills shortfall and housing crisis that continues to impact all Toowoomba businesses.

We started to build the business case for future advocacy with the Toowoomba Busines Performance Sentiment Index delivered by McCrindle, a world leader in tracking emerging demographic issues and through our Annual Business Survey, produced by international researcher Blair Sullivan of Create Consult Research. Critical as we head towards State and local government elections in 2024.

We hosted a number of valuable learning events such as the Leading Women Series, Men’s Mental Health and the Federal Budget Breakfast with RSM.

Our monthly networking event Business@Dusk continued to increase in popularity, whilst and the crowning jewel of the Toowoomba Business community, The Focus HR Business Excellence Awards 2022 was by all accounts, the best one yet!

We continued the work with our valued volunteers who form the Future Leaders Advisory Group, CBD Revitalisation Advisory Committee, Food and Ag Network and continued to build the Business Connect Program, Dine Darling Downs platform and Toowoomba Conferences. We thank you.

With the year now nearly behind us, the Board of the Toowoomba Chamber of Commerce would like to wish our valued partners and members, the broader business community and Toowoomba residents a happy holidays, seasons greetings and a prosperous new year.