Grants for NSW medium businesses and not-for-profits impacted by storms and floods in the Northern Rivers region

Overview

Grants can be used to help cover costs of clean-up and reinstatement of businesses, including:

• payment for tradespeople to conduct safety inspections
• equipment and materials required for cleaning up
• equipment and materials essential for immediately resuming operations
• payment for a cleaner if the service would not have been needed, or exceeds ordinary cleaning costs, in the absence of the disaster
• the removal and disposal of debris, damaged materials or damaged stock
• repairing premises, or repairing or replacing internal fittings, if it’s essential for resuming operations
• leasing temporary premises, if it’s essential for resuming operations
• replacing or repair of motor vehicles, if it’s essential for reinstatement of the business
• replacing lost or damaged stock, if it’s essential for immediately resuming operations
• temporarily adopting an online business model.

Applicants cannot have received a grant under any of the following grant programs:

• $50,000 February and March 2022 Storm and Flood Disaster Recovery Small Business Grant
• $10,000 Small Business Northern Flood Grant
• $75,000 Primary Producer Special Disaster grant

Applicants must be located in one of the following local government areas (LGAs):

• Ballina
• Byron
• Clarence Valley
• Kyogle
• Lismore
• Richmond Valley
• Tweed Shire.

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Eligible applicants must be a medium business owner or a not-for-profit in an eligible LGA and:

• have suffered direct damage – 'direct damage' means a direct and material impact of flooding on business assets or equipment
• have employed a minimum of 21 and less than 200 full time equivalent (FTE) employees as at 22 February 2022
• be responsible for meeting the costs claimed in the application
• be intending to re-establish the medium business in the defined area.

Eligible businesses are those that:

• hold an active Australian business number (ABN) and held that ABN at 22 February
• are structured as a company, joint venture, partnership or trust.

Eligible not-for-profits organisations must, as at 22 February 2022, be either:

• registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) or an equivalent State regulatory body
• registered as an incorporated association or co-operative with Fair Trading NSW
• deemed to be a not-for-profit organisation, in accordance with the current Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB).