Small Business Support Package - TC Jasper
About
The $13.4 million Small Business Support Program includes one-on-one case management focused on mental health and financial security, partnerships with councils and chambers of commerce to address local support needs, and grants for small businesses that have lost income due to prolonged isolation, following the eligible events:
- Tropical Cyclone Jasper, associated rainfall and flooding, 13 – 28 December 2023
- South East Queensland Severe Storms and Rainfall, 24 December 2023 – 3 January 2024.
The small business support package includes:
Small Business Support Network - $6.9 million
Dedicated to disaster-affected small business owners, including tourism and rural businesses, providing free, independent, one-on-one case management with a strong focus on mental health support and financial security to recover from disaster and build more resilient enterprises.
Business Resilience Partnership Program - $1 million
New program that addresses local support needs, not met through other programs or elements of the Proposed Category D submission, delivered in partnership with Councils and Chambers.
Exceptional Disaster Hardship Assistance Grants - $5.5 million
Grants up to $20,00 will be available to provide financial assistance to small businesses located in impacted council areas, or operating within impacted council areas, who have lost income due to protracted isolation due to road access, power, and other services.
Eligibility
The assistance measures will be made available in the following impacted council areas:
- Tropical Cyclone Jasper:
- Cairns Regional Council
- Cassowary Coast Regional Council
- Cook Shire Council
- Douglas Shire Council
- Hope Vale Aboriginal Shire Council
- Mareeba Shire Council
- Tablelands Regional Council
- Wujal Wujal Aboriginal Shire Council
- Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council
- South East Queensland Severe Storms:
- City of the Gold Coast
- Logan City Council
- Scenic Rim Regional Council.
Funding acknowledgement
The package is jointly funded by the Australian and Queensland Governments to support Queensland communities in their recovery from the Tropical Cyclone Jasper, 13 - 28 December 2023 event and the South East Queensland Severe Storms and Rainfall, 24 December 2023 – 3 January 2024.
Administering agency
Queensland Reconstruction Authority (QRA)
Delivery agency
Department of Employment, Small Business and Training (DESBT)
More information
More details about this funding will be made available in the coming weeks.