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Funding and Grants
Funding and Grants
There are a number of grant and funding opportunities that may be available to your business, project or event. Make sure you read the criteria carefully to ensure that you meet the guidelines. Some grants are highly competitive with short application time frames.
For general enquiries and support for your application, Contact Us.
Bushfire Local Economic Recovery Fund
To support projects that retain and create new jobs in regional areas, build resilience and increase preparedness for future bushfire seasons. Funding is available in the following three categories: Infrastructure projects, such as roads to support increased industrial development. Environmental projects, such as regeneration activities. Programs including social, business and environmental education initiatives. CLOSES 28 JANUARY
National Bushfire Recovery - Support for Small Business
Disaster recovery grants are now available to primary producers, small businesses and not-for-profit organisations in LGAs affected by the 2019/20 bushfires.
ACT - Tourism Cooperative Marketing Fund
The TCMF is designed to encourage Canberra-based organisations or businesses to collaborate on innovative marketing campaigns that increase awareness of Canberra and region as a leisure destination. The primary objectives of the TCMF are to: 1. Deliver positive and measurable economic outcomes for the ACT tourism industry 2. Support collaboration between industry operators 3. Support new product /experience development 4. Provide increased investment in high quality marketing campaigns or projects promoting Canberra and the region. STREAM 1 CLOSES 31 MARCH
NSW Heritage Grants
This round aims to: improve identification, protection, knowledge and understanding of the State's heritage assist owners and custodians with the conservation and activation of items of State and local heritage significance and Aboriginal Places encourage promotion, celebration and cultural participation of the State's heritage increase resilience in NSW: recovery from and preparedness for disasters stimulate the economy. In this round there are three broad categories of grants: Aboriginal Cultural Heritage, Caring for State Heritage, and Community Heritage. CLOSES 8 FEBRUARY
Building Better Regions - Round Five
The Round Five Community Investments Stream supports new or expanded local events, strategic regional plans or leadership and capability strengthening activities that provide economic and social benefits to regional and remote areas. CLOSES 5 MARCH
Strengthening Rural Communities – Round 7
The Strengthening Rural Communities program gives small rural, regional and remote communities across Australia the opportunity to access funds that can benefit and help secure their future success. Grants are available for a broad range of initiatives that directly and clearly benefit local communities. CLOSES 23 FEBRUARY
Regional Job Creation Fund
The Regional Job Creation Fund supports regional investment and job creation by offering $100,000 to $10 million in co-funding to activate or bring forward regional projects in engine, enabling or emerging engine industries. Examples of eligible projects could include the: replacement, upgrade or adaptation of plant and equipment at an existing regional NSW business; establishment of an additional production line for an existing regional NSW business; development of new regional tourism experiences and visitor attractions. The Regional Job Creation Fund’s focus is to co-fund projects creating at least five sustainable regional jobs. CLOSES 14 MAY
Re-Imagine: Industry Collaborations
The Industry Collaborations stream supports future-focused, cross-industry collaborations across and beyond the cultural and creative industries. It invests in strategic cross-industry collaborations that explore new models of development and delivery. This funding stream is intended to leverage additional investment from partners (cash and in-kind) and to establish new frameworks for future partnership models. CLOSES 23 FEB
Live Music Australia Program
Provides support to the live music sector, with a focus on small to medium venues that support high quality original Australian live music that is professionally staged. It aims to revive business ventures in local suburbs, towns and regions across the country, building capacity for a sustainable live music scene with strong community roots. CLOSES 18 FEB
Community Conservation Grant
Grants are available for both field projects and education programs that have a direct outcome for nature conservation in Australia. CLOSES 26 FEB
Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund
The RISE Fund is supporting the arts and entertainment sector to reactivate. The program is targeting funding towards the arts and entertainment sector organisations who are seeking to restart, re-imagine or create new activities. The program is intended to assist by providing finance to assist the presentation of new or re-shaped cultural and creative activities and events. CLOSES 31 MAY 2021
Regional Arts Fund - Renewal
Renewal grants will provide up to three years of funding to support projects that have strong partnerships and demonstrated long term outcomes, with sustainable future-positioning focus. These projects will be strategic in nature. Collaborations across State and Territory borders will be encouraged. The projects can be process-driven and provide an opportunity to think beyond ‘snap back’ and to consider renewed arts practice and learning processes.
Regional Skills Relocation Grant
Grants will be available for businesses operating in NSW regional eligible industries. The funding is available to assist with the relocation costs of eligible skilled workers they employ that move from metropolitan areas to regional NSW. Approved businesses will be reimbursed up to $10,000 to assist with some relocation costs incurred by eligible skilled workers.
International Business Development Program
This program encourages an increased presence of NSW products, experiences and destinations at key events in international markets. It educates international wholesalers and front-line agents about NSW tourism products and destinations and provides NSW suppliers with a better understanding of the needs and characteristics of key international markets. The program subsidises part of the registration costs for one delegate to participate in specified Destination NSW trade roadshows and other events which have been identified as offering the best return for NSW operators. Ongoing
Assistance accessing finance - Export Finance Australia
If you're a business that provides tourism services directly, or through the supply chain, to international tourists and you need finance to help you grow the international side of your business, Export Finance Australia may be able to help. Examples of how they support tourism businesses are; providing working capital needed to add more staff or upgrade assets to service international customers, working capital to undertake international marketing campaigns, loans to buy assets to service international visitors.