Deadline: 26-Sep-22
The City of Hobart is seeking applications for the Local Business for a Better Community Grant Program.
The Local Business for a Better Community Grant is an opportunity for small businesses in Hobart to enhance their offering to the Hobart community and create new visitor experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic recovery phase and into the future.
Aims
The grant aims to:
- Assist businesses in running activities or programs beyond their business as usual to create a community benefit
- Be customer focused
- Assist businesses to build a new loyal Hobart customer base.
Funding Information
- The Local Business for a Better Community Grant provides cash support from $1000 to $5000 matched funding.
- Activities can only be funded once per financial year.
- If successful, the supported activity cannot receive additional funding though other City of Hobart grants.
What Can You Apply For?
The Local Business for a Better Community Grant is available to small businesses in Hobart to present activities that engage Hobart customers.
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The grant supports activities in the City of Hobart that
- Are of interest to the Hobart community
- Are an extension on the general operations of a small business
- Target Hobart customersto visit their business
- Are free or low cost to customers to participate.
- Some examples of the types of activities that could be supported include:
- Presenting workshops or demonstrations on how to use products that a business sells
- Educational tasting experiences with local producers introducing or engaging people in hobbies
- Professional services providing information sessions (i.e. financial literacy for young adults or people at risk).
Eligible Activities
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Applications for the Local Business for a Better Community Grant will need to demonstrate that the request for support:
- Is encouraging local customers to engage with a Hobart small business and its offerings
- Has outcomes that are delivered in the City of Hobart local government area.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must:
- Be a small business (defined as employing fewer than 20 full time equivalent staff)
- Have an active Australian Business Number (ABN) that is registered in Tasmania
- Be registered for GST
- Provide goods or services within the City of Hobart local government area
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Be located within the City of Hobart local government area, being either
- A business that has a permanent physical presence in Hobart,
- Not-for-profit organisations, incorporated associations and charities where trading activities within the local government area are a substantial part of the organisation's activities,
- A current market stallholder that trades in a weekly market that is regularly operating in Hobart' and, as a stallholder, regularly trades at that market?
- Provide evidence of matched funding for the activity.
- Applicants must match the funding requested with a financial contribution (including hours worked) equal to or greater than the funds requested. This must be evident in the application form's budget.
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Applicants must also:
- Match the grant request with their own funds
- Ensure the applications are submitted by the business owner/manager/ appropriate signatory and not a third party (i.e. an accountant)
- Not have received other funding from the City for the same activity this financial year
- Have fulfilled the conditions of a previous City of Hobart grant by the due date and have no overdue debts to the City
- Have adequate public liability insurance.
For more information, visit City of Hobart.
For more information, visit https://www.hobartcity.com.au/Community/Grants-and-funding/Business-Grants
