Deadline: 30-Jun-23
The Victorian Timber Innovation Grants Program is proving grants for native timber industry businesses to explore, invest and implement opportunities to support their transition under the Victorian Forestry Plan.
Objectives
- To assist businesses directly affected by the Victorian Forestry Plan to:
- explore, investigate, and implement business transition opportunities
- undertake capital investment in business transition projects
- diversify and reorientate core business activities to support alternative employment opportunities
- develop and implement downstream manufacturing opportunities using alternative fibre
- invest in new opportunities to process or manufacture using plantation timber feedstock and/or alternative fibre.
Funding Information
- The Victorian Timber Innovation Grants Program will provide grants of up to $1 million.
- Grants over $1 million may be considered for projects that generate a significant number of jobs and local community benefit.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications for a Victorian Timber Innovation Grants Program grant are invited from businesses that:
- hold a current VicForests Timber Sale Agreement, or
- hold a Forest Produce Licence issued by VicForests, or
- are a timber harvest and / or haulage business with a current VicForests contract or agreement, or
- are a harvest and/or haulage sub-contractor to a business with a current VicForests harvest and/or haulage contract with at least 70 per cent of its annual revenue derived from the business with the VicForests contract, based on the 2020-21 financial year
- a seed collector with a contract with VicForests with at least 70 per cent of its annual revenue derived from the VicForests contract, based on the 2020-21 financial year
- have an Australian Business Number (ABN)
- conduct business operations within Victoria
- meet all the industrial relations obligations as an employer in accordance with the National Employment Standards under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth).
- Eligible businesses are encouraged (not mandatory) to participate in the Forestry Business Transition Voucher Program to support their application.
- Sawmill businesses participating in the Victorian Forestry Plan Opt-Out Scheme are eligible to submit an application to the Victorian Timber Innovation Grants Program.
- Applicants are encouraged to speak with a Victorian Forestry Plan representative to discuss their eligibility.
For more information, visit https://djpr.vic.gov.au/forestry/grants/timber-innovation-grants