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What is the Business Basics Grants?
The Business Basics Grants is a program that provides support to businesses to increase core skills and adopt best practice.
Background
The Business Basics Grants includes funded activities in 5 priorities:
- Training and coaching
- Website build or upgrades
- Professional business advice
- Strategic marketing services
- Business continuity and succession
The program is administered by the Department of Employment, Small Business and Training (DESBT).
Objectives
The expected outcomes of the grants program are to:
- increase confidence for business owners across core skills;
- boost turnover, profit, and employment; and
- improve business survivability and resilience.
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Funding
You may be eligible for a single up-front fixed grant payment of $5,000 (excluding GST).
Eligible Projects
DESBT will fund the following eligible activities:
- Training and coaching
- Business development, marketing, human resources or business planning topics
- Training/coaching
- Website build/upgrades
- Website build or upgrade (including website refresh)
- Adding ecommerce
- Developing new website content
- Professional business advice
- Business plans
- Strategic marketing services
- Strategic marketing plans including search engine optimisation advice
- Business continuity and succession
- Business continuity or succession plans
- Cybersafety training and tools
Eligible Applicants
To be eligible for this grant, your business must:
- not have been approved for funding under Round 1, 2 or 3
- have fewer than 20 employees (by head count) at the time of applying for the grant
- have an active Australian Business Number (ABN) and be registered for GST
- have headquarters in Queensland
- have an expected turnover of $300,000 or less in the last financial year (2021–22)
- not have owners/directors that are insolvent or an undischarged bankrupt.
Your business must also maintain this eligibility for the duration of the grant funded activity.
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Timing
Applications close 5 December 2022.
