Deadline: 30-Jun-22
The Queensland Rural and Industry Development Authority is pleased to announce a Special Disaster Assistance Recovery Grants to assist directly impacted primary producers and small businesses with the costs of clean-up and the reinstatement of their business.
This Grants Scheme provides a grant to primary producers to help pay for the costs of clean-up and reinstatement of primary production enterprises that have suffered direct damage as a result of an eligible disaster.
Funding Information
- The maximum grant amount is $50,000.
- An initial amount of up to $10,000 is available (an initial claim). To support an initial claim evidence of the direct damage such as photographs, quotations, tax invoices and official receipts is required.
- A subsequent amount of up to $40,000 is available (a subsequent claim). To support subsequent claims full evidence of payment is required. (This evidence must also cover any amounts claimed under the initial claim if not already provided).
Note: multiple applications can be made up to the maximum amount available under the grant.
How can the assistance help you?
Eligible clean-up, reinstatement activities and emergency measures include:
- Equipment and materials to undertake clean-up
- Additional labor costs (above and beyond normal wage expenditure ie day-to-day staffing)
- Disposal of damaged goods and injured or dead livestock, including associated costs
- Repairs to buildings (other than housing)
- Fencing not covered by any other assistance
- Reconditioning/repairing essential plant and equipment
- Salvaging crops, grain and feeds
- Purchase or hire/ lease costs for equipment essential to the immediate resumption of the business
- Payment for tradespeople to conduct safety inspections
- Essential repairs to premises and internal fittings that is not covered by insurance.
Defined Disaster Area
The Minister for Fire and Emergency Services has activated disaster assistance for Central, Southern and Western Queensland Rainfall and Flooding, 10 November – 3 December 2021
To be eligible for assistance your property must be located in one of the defined disaster areas:
- Banana Shire Council
- Bundaberg Regional Council
- Goondiwindi Regional Council
- Lockyer Valley Regional Council
- Scenic Rim Regional Council
- Somerset Regional Council
- South Burnett Regional Council
- Southern Downs Regional Council
- Toowoomba Regional Council
- Western Downs Regional Council.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for a grant, the applicant must:
- Be a primary producer;
- Hold an Australian Business Number (ABN) and have held that ABN at the time of the eligible disaster;
- Have a primary production enterprise that is located in the defined area for the eligible disaster that has suffered direct damage as a result of the eligible disaster;
- Have been engaged in carrying on the primary production enterprise when affected by the eligible disaster;
- Be primarily responsible for meeting the costs claimed in the application;
- For costs relating to provide satisfactory evidence of the loss of damage; and
- Intend to re-establish the primary production enterprise in the defined disaster area for the eligible disaster.
- An applicant may also be eligible for a grant if both of the following apply:
- The applicant’s primary production enterprise is located outside the defined disaster area for the eligible disaster but is carried on at least sometime on a regular basis in the area.
- Plant or equipment of the primary production enterprise situated in the defined disaster area has been damaged as a result of the eligible disaster.
Eligible Separate Businesses
- Applicants who operate more than one primary production enterprise, for example under a single ABN at separate locations, may apply for assistance for each eligible separate business up to the maximum amount of assistance available for the relevant defined disaster area and determined by the establishment notice.
- When determining an application on this basis QRIDA may consider (but is not limited to):
- the staffing arrangements of the separate business;
- whether the business has its own plant equipment or stock;
- the accounting arrangements of the separate business;
- whether the separate business operates under its own trading name;
- The commercial viability and autonomy of each business.
For more information, visit https://www.qrida.qld.gov.au/program/special-disaster-assistance-recovery-grants-central-southern-and-western-qld-producers