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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.
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Regional Events Acceleration Fund
Funding will help meet the costs of attracting or retaining major events, such as premier sporting fixtures or competitions, and helps fund the operational and infrastructure improvements existing events need to increase visitation and length of stay. CLOSES 17 DEC (or when all funding committed)
Regional Arts Touring Grant
Regional Arts Touring funding supports projects that provide access to arts and culture for audiences living in regional NSW. Funding is available for tours of all artforms, including performing arts, music, visual arts, literature, history, museums and multi-arts. Applicants should demonstrate strong audience development and engagement strategies. CLOSES 19 APRIL
Boosting Female Founders Initiative
Grants between $25,000 and $480,000 for female founded startups to expand into domestic and global markets. CLOSES 22 APRIL
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.
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
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.