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Business Basics Grants Program

The Business Basics grants program provides support to businesses to increase core skills and adopt best practice. This round of Business Basics is focused on business enhancement.

Applicants can apply for funding for grant funded activities under the following priorities:

The program is administered by the Department of Employment, Small Business and Training (DESBT).

SEQ and regional Queensland funding available

For this round, 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 $7500 (excluding GST).

The grant is for funding activities from the above 3 priorities.

Ideas To Help You

Our team can assist with documentation to support your grant with a quote for the following advice and services including

New website builds or refresh
Strategic advice across all marketing channels
Lead generation programs
Search engine optimisation
Website enhancements including ecommerce
Developing new website content

Criteria For The Grant

To be eligible for this grant, your business must:

have less than 5 employees by head count (1)
be operating and have an active Australian Business Number (ABN) and be registered for GST
have a turnover of $300,000 or less for the last financial year
not be insolvent or have owners/directors that are an undischarged bankrupt.
not have been approved for funding under an earlier Business Basics round
not be insolvent or have owners/directors that are undischarged or currently bankrupt (2).
have a registered Queensland headquarters location2 (as per your Australian Business Register (ABR) record)

¹Headcount includes all full-time, part-time and casual employees including Non-Executive Directors.
²Your business must maintain this eligibility for the duration of the grant-funded activity.

Use our eligibility checker to find out if your business can apply for the program.

Your Plan To Applying For A Grant

To summarise and help you get focussed on this exciting funding opportunity, here is our recommended approach:

Read the key documents:
- we have put them all together for you to download here
Check your eligibility.
Apply for a DESBT SmartyGrants applicant account (if you don’t already have one).
Ensure your Australian Business Register profile for your business is up to date (check your ABN status, GST status and main business location).

Full details: https://www.business.qld.gov.au/starting-business/advice-support/grants/business-basics-grant

It is free to apply through the DESBT SmartyGrants portal when the grant round opens.

Applicants will be notified at the end of each stage (ROI shortlisting and full application) of their outcome.

This grant program is competitively assessed in 2 stages, meaning not all applications will be funded:

Stage 1: Registration of Interest (ROI)
Stage 2: Full Application.

Stage 1:

opens for ROI applications at 9am, Monday 30 September 2024
closes for ROI applications at 5pm, Friday 11 October 2024.

Marketing Without A Grant

Even if you are not eligible for the above grant but would like to discuss your current marketing needs, please reach out to admin@triumphbiz.com.au or book your free digital marketing strategy session.