Funding for small agrifood and beverage businesses

The Agrifood and Beverage Voucher Program provides small agrifood and beverage businesses with vouchers to engage business consultants or technical experts.

Overview

Vouchers may be used to support contracting of professional consultancy services in 1 or more of the following categories:

• business planning (e.g. business evaluation/plan)
• manufacturing for business growth (e.g. primary producers to manufacturing, quality assurance, QA certification, digital and technology and other innovation)
• sales and marketing (e.g. e-commerce strategy development, online marketing plan and analytics, marketing planning, competitor analysis, customer insights, branding, packaging design, and preparing for export)
• financial health (e.g. structure for capital raising, financial projections, investment memoranda, pitch decks, and succession planning)
• environmental sustainability and social responsibility (e.g. Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) strategy development, planning improved outcomes for environment and/or communities with measurable business co-benefits, sustainable packaging, waste stream repurposing, energy efficiency and carbon assessment etc).

Eligible businesses may apply for up to 2 vouchers in 2 different categories (to a maximum of $15,000) for this round and are required to match the voucher funding dollar-for-dollar.

Check if you can apply

To be eligible, applicants must:

• be a food or beverage manufacturer for all voucher categories, or a food producer intending to transition to food or beverage manufacturing for the ‘Manufacturing for Business Growth’ category
• be registered in Western Australia with an Australian business number (ABN)
• have an annual sales turnover of between $100,000 and $10 million
• have operated for a minimum of 18 months
• be incorporated in Australia with non-tax-exempt status.