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.
Funding
For Round 3 there are 2 funding streams based on what Local Government Area (LGA) eligible businesses are headquartered. These LGAs are grouped into either South East Queensland or regional Queensland.
You may be eligible for a single up-front fixed grant payment of $5,000 (excluding GST).
The grant is for funding activities from the above 5 priorities.
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, your business must:
- 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 goods and services tax (GST)
- have a Queensland headquarters and be based in regional Queensland
- have a turnover of $300,000 or less for the last financial year (2020-21)
- not have been approved for funding under Round 1 of the Business Basics program
- not be insolvent or have owners/directors that are an undischarged bankrupt.
The applying business must be able to provide the following supporting documentation:
- a certified statutory declaration from the business’ owner or director stating the business: has an expected turnover of $300,000 or less in the last financial year (2020-21) and meets all grant eligibility criteria; and
- supplier quotes (no more than 2) detailing description and costs of services, who will undertake the activity, and an outline of key activities.
Only 1 application will be accepted from an individual ABN or a financial beneficiary of a business for consideration at any one time.
Application submissions or answers from third parties are ineligible.
Timing
Round 3 applications now open and will close when sufficient applications have been received for competitive assessment.
