{"id":17634,"date":"2021-05-18T15:59:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T05:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/?post_type=change&#038;p=17634"},"modified":"2021-05-18T16:00:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T06:00:50","slug":"change70-smes","status":"publish","type":"change","link":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/change\/change70-smes\/","title":{"rendered":"SMEs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A big help to small businesses.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Origin Energy supports small business. We understand that these times can be hard, so we\u2019re doing everything we can to help. One of the ways we\u2019ve helped, is by partnering with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/lets-melbourne-again\/\">Let\u2019s Melbourne Again<\/a> \u2013 an initiative to rebuild confidence, creativity and hope in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few things we did as part of this initiative:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eased business cash-flow by approving payment extensions<\/li>\n<li>Created payment plans for businesses to make their payments in instalments<\/li>\n<li>Helped businesses to manage their bills, by doing self-meter reads<\/li>\n<li>Gave bill credits to eligible small businesses in the CBD*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Want to know how you can help small business? Start with a walk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/discover-your-new-neighbourhood-eats-with-these-apps\/\">around your neighbourhood<\/a>. There are plenty of small businesses around. Whether it\u2019s the cafe, the bakery, the florist &#8211; every little bit helps. So next time you grab a coffee, don\u2019t think of it as a $5 flat white, think of it as a caffeinated opportunity to help a small business out. And hey, good on you.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Bill credits provided to eligible businesses.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ready to join the energy company that&#8217;s supporting small business?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We understand the last twelve (plus) months have been hard on small business. Find out how we&#8217;ve been supporting SMEs during this challenging&nbsp;time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17636,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[38,43],"class_list":["post-17634","change","type-change","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-business-energy","tag-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/change\/17634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/change"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/change"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/change\/17634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originenergy.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}