Funding for Tasmanian small businesses that suffered direct damage due to severe weather 13 and 14 October

Funding is available to assist with clean-up and reinstatement costs for Tasmanian small businesses directly impacted by the severe weather event on 13 and 14 October 2022.

Overview

2 tiers of funding are available to help pay for clean-up and reinstatement costs:

• Tier 1 – funding of $2,500 to support initial costs
• Tier 2 – subsequent funding of $22,500 to support ongoing costs.

Funding is available to small businesses within the following impacted municipalities:

• Break O’Day
• Burnie
• Central Coast
• Central Highlands
• Circular Head
• Devonport
• Dorset
• Flinders
• George Town
• Kentish
• Latrobe
• Launceston
• Meander Valley
• Northern Midlands
• Waratah-Wynyard
• West Coast
• West Tamar.

Check if you can apply

To be eligible, applicants must:

• be a sole operator or a small business employing fewer than 20 full-time equivalent employees (FTEs)
• hold an Australian business number (ABN) at the time of the severe weather event on 13 and 14 October 2022
• own a small business in an impacted municipality
• have suffered direct damage to premises and/or tools
• be intending to re-establish at the same location in the same municipality
• be claiming for costs relating to clean-up activities
• be primarily responsible for meeting the costs claimed.