Special Disaster Assistance Recovery Grants Small Business
Special Disaster Assistance Recovery Grants
Small Business
The special Recovery Assistance Grant is available to Small Businesses that have been directly affected by the recent floods. There are also grants available for Primary Producers and Not-for-Profit organisations that have been directly affected.
If you would like further information on the other grants available, please contact our office on 4729 2222.
Small businesses that have been directly affected by the recent North and Far North Queensland Monsoon trough are now eligible to receive an Exceptional Circumstances Grant from Queensland Rural and Industry Development Authority up to a maximum of $25,000 for clean-up costs in the following defined disaster areas:
- Cloncurry Shire Council
- Flinders Shire Council
- McKinlay Shire Council
- Richmond Shire Council
- Townsville City Council
To be eligible for the Exceptional Circumstances Grant, the applicant must:
- Be a small business (see small business definition below)
- Hold an ABN at the time of the eligible disaster
- Own a small business located in any of the above defined disaster areas and suffered direct damage as a result of the disaster
- Be primarily responsible for meeting the costs claimed in the applications and
- Intend to re-establish the small business in the defined disaster area
A small business is a business that:
- Holds an ABN
- Is not a public company, charitable business or a body corporate
- Employs fewer than 20 full-time equivalent employees
- If operating as a sole trader and the business has no employees, the owner must derive the majority of their income from the business
- Is a small business in development
