Posted by Cory List on 7th Aug 2014

Australian Small Business Grants 2014

This is a range of Small Business Grants and funding sources available to Australian Businesses. It is not an exhaustive list, but gives a good range of the grants available currently. If any links or information are not current, please let us know.

 

Description

Amounts

Expiry Date

City of Melbourne Small Business Grants

The program provides financial assistance to small businesses currently located or intending to locate within the City of Melbourne municipal boundary.

 $80

11 Aug 2014

Business Growth Grants

Grant funding can be used to engage a consultant/s to make improvements to your business that were recommended by your Business Adviser through the Business Evaluation.

$20,000

Ongoing

City of Perth Small Business Grants

Offers grants to small businesses located or based within the City of Perth Local Government Area. The grants may be used to assist businesses to purchase new equipment, with start-up or expansion costs or for other approved small business projects.

$20,000 

16 May 2014

Frankston City Small Business Grants

Businesses can apply for up to $10,000, to be spent on business growth endeavours. Eligible businesses can apply for up to $15,000 in the specialized Emerging Exporter and Green Business categories.

$15,000

31 Dec 2013

Single Business Service

The Single Business Service provides a point of contact for information and referral services on issues such as obtaining finance, managing your cash flow, industry support programs, independent contracting, retail leasing, marketing, and stress and hardship counselling.

N/A

Ongoing

No Interest Micro-Business Loan

Provides business start-up information and an interest-free loan for the development of a business idea into a practical proposal.

$3,000

Ongoing

Small Business Advisory Services (SBAS)

The Small Business Advisory Services (SBAS) programme aims to maximize the growth potential, prosperity and sustainability of small businesses through enhanced access to information and advice on issues important to establishing, sustaining and/or growing a small business.

$200,000.00

Ongoing

Employment Start Up For Business

Supports small and medium sized Victorian businesses who recruit unemployed young people.

$4,000

Ongoing

Growing Defence Business

Assistance package for NT businesses that support or supply the NT Defence Industry with skills, labour, goods or services. This program offers reimbursements for businesses to engage professional advisors who work with you to develop your business.

$10 000

Ongoing

City of Perth Matched Funding Business Grants

Provides businesses with funding of up to $20,000 on a dollar for dollar basis. This program focuses on supporting the knowledge-based industries and business projects that improve the vitality and vibrancy of the city and in particular, those projects that activate underutilised spaces.

$20,000

25 Jul 2012

(Applications are now closed)

Early Stage Development Fund

Support businesses during the critical early stage of a project's life, with both investment and feedback.

$436,800.00

Ongoing

Business Finance Loans

Assists Indigenous Australians to establish, acquire and grow small to medium businesses.

 

Ongoing

TradeStart

Aims to help small and medium businesses find long-term success in international business.

N/A

Ongoing

Small Business SuccessMap

Supports business owners and managers to build their business planning and management capability through review, coaching and business planning.

$1,000

1 Sep 2015

Farm Finance

Aims to build the ongoing financial resilience of farm businesses. Provides concessional loans for productivity enhancement projects or debt restructuring for farm businesses in all states and the Northern Territory.

$100 000

Ongoing

Grant McLennan Memorial Fellowship

The $25,000 grant offers the recipient an opportunity to travel to New York, London or Berlin for up to 2 months to further develop their artistic skills in a foreign and vibrant culture.

$25,000

28 Jun 2013

Multicultural Partnership Grants

A grant for long-term projects (up to three years), that maximise economic participation and the linguistic and cultural assets of the NSW population.

$20,000 to

$80,000

31 Dec 2015

Export Market Development Grants (EMDG)

This scheme offers financial assistance to aspiring and current exporters. It supports a wide range of industry sectors and products, including inbound tourism and the export of intellectual property and know-how outside Australia.

$15,000

3 Mar 2015

Hopscotch

Supports the national and international touring of innovative Australian live art. Helps with travel costs of tours or strategic one-off presentations designed to build national and international markets for Australian artists and arts organisations.

$10,000

15 August 2014.

Regional Development Program

Designed to extend the flow of economic and social benefits of events to regional Queensland.

$100,000

8 August 2014.

Low-Interest Loan

Provides assistance towards arts-related project activity including capital improvements and equipment purchases.

$10 000

31 Dec 2015

VicArts Grants

Provides funding to Victorian artists and smaller arts companies for discrete projects that deliver new ideas, new modes of practice and new approaches over a wide range of art forms and artistic activities.

 

30 July 2014