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Formation of the Elvie Williams Pancreatic Cancer Foundation
Published: 10 February 2025
In 2025, John Williams and Bligh Williams will be embarking on the registration of the Elvie Williams Pancreatic Cancer Foundation.
The formation of the Foundation as a registered not-for-profit organisation was as a result of John and Bligh losing their wife and mother respectively to Pancreatic Cancer on 19 April 2022.
Unlike many families of pancreatic cancer victims, Elvie was provided with 3-4 months to live once diagnosed but through advise from the Oncology team at the Gold Coast University Hospital, plus the research team from Monash University lead by Roger Daly and internationally recognised expert in growth factors signaling and its deregulation in cancer, Elvie’s life was extended close to three years from diagnosis with about 85% of this period Elvie was able to enjoy a reasonable quality of life.
In conjunction with Doctor Daniel Croagh who currently works at the Department of Surgery, Monash University (Australia). Daniel does research in Surgery. Their current interests include precision medicine in pancreatic and biliary cancer. Doctor Croagh assisted Elvie’s quality of life by numbing the nerve ending in Elvie’s back which saw a reduction in the dependency on prescribed pain killers by approximately 40%.
The foundations intention is to provide the investment needed into the research for a cure of pancreatic cancer. It focus will be on early diagnosis, education of the public on early identification of symptoms and treatment to reduce the number of people that are victims of the disease.
Our business interests and personally we will contribute 10% of its gross sales and pre-tax income to the Foundation and it will have a focus not on providing support staff to sufferers but a absolute focus on finding a cure and early diagnosis.
The Board for the Elvie Williams Pancreatic Cancer Foundation is made up of people with a vast range of professional experience from accountancy, legal practitioners, business owners, entrepreneurs, medical professionals and survivors of pancreatic cancer.
We look forward to keeping you up to date as we continue on the journey, let us save our mothers, wives, sisters and daughters.
Australian Art Artefacts and Logistics Continue to Grow in 2025
Published: 10 February 2025
In late 2023 Bligh Williams worked with the team at AAAL to develop an alternative supplier globally for Art and Artefacts both nationally and internationally for Museums and Galleries not just in Australia, but South-East Asia and Europe.
The AAAL group, handles domestic and international logistics, Art & Artefact storage, Exhibition Design and Installation, Packing and Packaging Services plus AAL has an extensive team of experts that preserve, conserve and restore all types of artefacts and artworks across all mediums.
In 2025, Bligh will be assisting the team at AAAL to build a community of experts and interested parties in Art and Artefacts and their preservation and restoration. It is planned by mid 2025, there will be regular get togethers in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra of the AAAL Community. You can register to become a member of the community at the AAAL website – www.aaalglobal.com.au
Bligh will also be working the Research and Development team at AAAL to the development of environmentally friendly packaging and packing solutions that are not just one-off solutions, but are reusable and facilities the best practice in asset preservation.
Bligh and the full time team at AAAL will keep you up to date on the activities and advancements in 2025.
2025 sees two famous brands Blue Crayon Marketing & Australian Wide Media Group join to form 131 Media.
Published: 10 February 2025
In mid 2025, Bligh Williams a leader in the development of strategic projects will implement a plan to bring together Blue Crayon Marketing and the Australian Wide Media Group.
This will see the creation of a new brand 131 Media.
It is planned that these new merged entity will be HQ in Darwin and will provide media and marketing services to the Northern Territory.
Under Bligh’s transition plan 131 Media is expecting to the bring together traditional free to air news and current affairs with a strong focus on Northern Territory content, working with Traditional Owners to tell their stories along with local, national and international significance.
Our news and current affairs content would be available to our media partners on the east coast for breaking Northern Territory news events.
The team will also marry in the new age of digital news and social media updates with the traditional way of delivering news, which will provide a powerhouse of coverage that will benefit our customers that advertise with us.
131 Media will also open its doors to our program production services and a new podcast studio providing these services to Darwin and the Territory.
Our team is a melting pot of talent from Nine, Channel 7, Channel 10, the ABC, the Guardian and Sky News, so we can guarantee a well balanced news, current affairs services and local content productions.
Check out our website for regular updates. www.131media.com.au
New Era of Strategic Planning, Master Planning & Economic Impact Assessment Reports
Bligh Williams Consultancy - ABN 74 981 1184 591
Published: 12 February 2025
With over 30 years of professional experience in the hospitality, property, planning and strategy fields, Bligh is an expert consultant and in 2025 is working with our corporate and community clients in the development of Strategic Plans, Master Plans and subsequent Social-Economic Impact Assessment.
With over twenty years of working with corporate national and global organisations focused on workplace and real estate strategy.
Last year Bligh was approached to develop a number of cultural strategic plans and now implementing the fundamentals of the strategic plan at a local government or geographic regions where significant commercial and community change was going to occur.
Our strategic plans incorporate the project vision, mission statement, objectives, plan of attack, approach and tactics to achieve the identified underlying the outcomes.
The strategic plan then leads into the development of the projects Master Plan which clearly identifies the physical, economic and social transformation.
Master Plans are required where the scale of change is significant and the area of change is significant. These plans take a multifaceted approach assessing a variety of aspects shaping a three dimensional model of the now, short, medium and long term social and economical dynamics.
The Master Plan creates the framework of the Community Economic Impact Assessment is a report that assesses, measures and aims to minimise potential social and economic consequences which can occur from a specific project or development, usually of a significant scale of change.