Business Boost Grants Program for QLD Businesses

Business Boost Grants Program

A new round of the Business Boost Grants is coming up for Queensland businesses.

This opportunity is a great way for businesses to receive financial assistance for projects that will improve efficiencies and productivity.

This support includes funded activities in 3 project areas:

• Future planning
• Specialised and automated software
• Staff management, development and planning

Businesses may be eligible to receive the grant payment of $15,000 (ex-GST) upon project completion. In addition, successful applicants must contribute at least 30% of the total project costs.

Your project can have a minimum cost of $10,715 (ex-GST), which means your contribution would be $3,215, and the grant funding that would come in post-project would be $7,500.

Maximum project costs can be $21,429 (ex-GST), with your contribution of $6,429 means the grant you’d receive post project would be $15,000*.

*Your project can cost more than $21,429 but the maximum amount DESBT will contribute is $15,000.

To work out your project costs, contribution and grant funding, the Business Boost Grants website has a calculator to help you work things out. (https://www.business.qld.gov.au/starting-business/advice-support/grants/business-boost)

Eligible activities in the Future Planning include:

• Strategic business planning for innovation or growth
• Implementing a governance board to guide strategic planning
• Exporting opportunities and requirements
• Compliance with industry regulations and standards

Eligible activities in the specialised and automated software include:

• Design and implementation of management systems, including:
  • data warehouses
  • asset management
  • customer relationship management systems
  • risk management
  • production systems
  • project management systems
  • quality and compliance management
• Bespoke or complex website or application design and build, including:
  • e-commerce
  • software integration
  • booking systems
  • cybersecurity tools
  • webinar/conferencing
  • customer accounts/logins
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Eligible activities in the staff management, development and planning include:

• Human resource management skills building
• Professional development and training
• Digital workplace plans and systems for a remote workforce

Further to the above, you must also have fewer than 20 employees (by headcount), have an active Australian Business Number (ABN) and be registered for GST have a Queensland headquarters, have a turnover of between $300,000 (minimum) and $600,000 (maximum) in the last financial year (2021–22), have a publicly reachable web presence to identify business operations, not have been approved for funding under Round 1 of the Business Boost grant program, not be insolvent or have owners/directors that are an undischarged bankrupt.

This time around the Business Boost Grant will have a 2 stage application process.

Stage 1 – From 9am 12 August to midnight 19 August, small businesses will be able to register interest in the grant program by completing a simple online form that will collect basic business information.

Stage 2 – Through a ballot process, select business will be chosen to proceed and complete the full application. All valid registrations of interest will have an equal opportunity of being selected. All businesses that have registered will be informed of the outcome of this stage.

Businesses invited to complete an application will have two weeks to submit.

It’s the perfect time to invest in training and development for your team, or even yourself, for the purpose of staff management, professional development, and human resource management skills building.

We’ve recently launched our new version of our flagship program, the SWISH Academy, that enables teams or individuals to access a Netflix-style library of videos pertaining to sales, business development, professional development, and communication.

SWISH180, SWISH360 and ELITE members receive access to live training sessions. With Focus Session being hosted by senior SWISH members twice weekly, monthly webinars with SWISH founder, Ryan Tuckwood, and ELITE members are able to join our Round Table Tuesday session that occur weekly with guest coaches appearing throughout the month.

If you are looking to take yourself, your team, or your business to the next level, contact us today.

For further information and details around the application, including terms and conditions, visit the Business Queensland website.