SERVICES

BUSINESS SUPPORT for female founders & entrepreneurs

Turning your idea, vision or lived experience into a structured business

Female First provides hands-on support for female founders, especially First Nations, regional and impact-driven women move from concept to company.


We support women to set up their business, build structure, establish credibility, and connect to the right people, partners and resourcing to help grow it.

what Female first helps you with

I have an idea or concept but don't know where to start

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We help you to turn your concept into a clear business model and structure.

I need to formally set up my business

We support you with company setup, ABN/ASIC registration, business naming, legal structure

I want to build my services into something clear and sellable

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We help you create structured offers, programs, consultancy services, or signature products.

I don't know what experts I actually need

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We connect you to lawyers, accountants, branding agencies, funding advisors, grant writers, tech teams, and marketing specialists.

I need help finding pathways to funding or support

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We connect you to grants, philanthropy, government programs, startup support, and investment options.

I want to be taken seriously as a founder

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We support you with your business identity, brand positioning, company values, narrative and credibility.

how female first supports your business development

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We help you set up your company the right way, not just the easy way.

Business Setup

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ABN/ASIC setup (sole trader, company, consultancy, agency, etc)

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Business naming, identity, registration

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Guidance on legal and financial structures

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Support for not-for-profit, social enterprise & for-profit models

Helping you build what you actually sell.

business structure & service design

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Turn your lived experience or expertise into services, programs or consultancy packages

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Map your services, pricing, value, and delivery model

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Design signature offerings ready for clients, partners or funding

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Libby Cook-Black providing hands-on business support for female founders

You don't have to know everything, just know who to speak to.


We connect you to trusted specialists:

Connect to the experts you need

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Business accountants & lawyers

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Marketing & brand designers

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Funding, grants & philanthropy advisors

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Website, platform and tech support

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Company governance & impact consultants

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Corporate sponsorship & commercial advisors

You'll be connected to a community of women building consultancy firms, agencies, studios, brand-led platforms and impact businesses.

Access to female first founder network

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Founder network

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Referral partners

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Collaborative opportunities

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Shared resourcing and knowledge

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Helping women turn ideas into structured, fundable businesses

We help you identify and prepare for opportunities where your business can get backed, supported or funded.

pathways to funding, growth and scale

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Grant guidance (startup, philanthropy, government, community)

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Preparation for sponsorship, investment or partnership opportunity

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Structuring your ideas to be "fundable" and contract-ready

who this is for

Female First business support is for:

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Female founders building companies based on lived experience, consultancy, education, culture, sport or community impact.

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First Nations and regional women turning skills, knowledge or passion into business models

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Women ready to move from "I help people" to "I run a clear, structured company"

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Emerging founders who want to do it properly, not just quickly

Female first doesn't just support women in business

FEMALE FIRST HELPS WOMEN BUILD BUSINESSES

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    Libby Cook-Black, founder of Female First, supporting women in sport, business, and community