Multicultural Small Business Grant Program

The Multicultural Small Business Grant Program aims to support Tasmanian multicultural small businesses to obtain business advice and support. 

If your application is approved, you will receive a grant of between $700 and $5,000 to obtain business advice or support with your nominated service provider. The grant will cover 70 per cent (70%) of the cost quoted by your service provider. You must have your own money available to make your minimum 30 per cent (30%) cash co-contribution towards the cost of your service provider. 

You will be required to acquit your grant. This means that you will need to provide evidence that you have paid your service provider for the services that you outlined in your application. 

Please read the program guidelines and frequently asked questions (FAQs) for information on this program including eligibility criteria. 

The program guidelines and FAQs can be downloaded at www.business.tas.gov.au/funding/general/multicultural_small_business_grant_program. 

If you have any further questions about this program, contact Business Tasmania prior to the program closing date and time.

Phone: 1800 440 026 (9:00am to 5:00pm, Monday to Friday)

Email: ask@business.tas.gov.au

The program opens at 2:00 pm on Tuesday, 19 November 2024 and closes at 2:00 pm on Thursday, 20 February 2025, or when the available funding has been fully allocated, whichever occurs first.

Noting:

The Department of State Growth may contact you for additional information about your application and verify the information you have provided.

Information you supply may be subject to authenticity checks using third party software.

Review the following list and confirm that you meet these criteria.

• Be registered for tax purposes in Australia with an Australian Business Number (ABN) at the time of applying for the grant.
• Be a small business with no more than 19 full time equivalent (FTE) employees and be able to demonstrate that the business is currently operating and located in Tasmania.
• You must be an Australian citizen, permanent resident or have the right visa to run a business in Australia and be able to demonstrate you arrived in Australia in the last 10 years.
•  Be able to demonstrate the annual business sales turnover from your business was at least $40,000 in the 2022-23 or 2023-24 financial year.
• At the time of applying, you must have the funds available to make the minimum 30 per cent (30%) cash co-contribution towards the total cost of your proposed services (including GST applied by the supplier).
• Be able to undertake the proposed activities within three months of being notified by email from the Department of State Growth (State Growth) of the outcome of the grant application.
• Provide all the required supporting evidence at the time of submitting your application (applications submitted without the required supporting evidence will not be successful).
• The service provider that you will use must be:
  • A business that is located and registered for tax purposes in Australia with an active ABN on or before 19 November 2023. 
  • Easily recognised as a business that regularly provides advice, expertise and services to businesses, aligned to those to be funded under this program.

Review the following list and confirm that your business is NOT any of these criteria. 

• Not-for-profit organisations, incorporated associations, or charities UNLESS the organisation is operating as a business employing paid staff and selling goods and services to customers that make up more than 30 per cent of their income.
• Any public company as defined in the Corporations Act 2001.
• Any business that is for sale, trading insolvent, under external administration or bankrupt at the time of submitting an application.
• Investment entities that solely generate passive turnover from residential and commercial property investment and/or the passive renting of property.
• Any government body, government agency or government business enterprise.
• Any business that has a current subsidised funding agreement in place with the Tasmanian Government.
• Applicants who have already been approved to receive a grant in this program or a similar program for the same work. Only one successful application per ABN and/or business operation is permitted.
• Applications made and submitted by the nominated service provider on behalf of the applicant business.
• Applications for services that have taken place prior to the applicant being  notified of the outcome of their application.
• Applications where the work with the nominated service provider is more than three months after the applicant is approved for the grant.
• Applications where there is a conflict of interest between the business owner and the nominated service provider (for example, if a familial relationship exists between the business owner and the nominated service provider).
• Any business that applies without the required supporting evidence.
• Applicants that make multiple applications for businesses with different ABNs but deliver similar business activities. Only one application will be accepted unless the work to be undertaken by the nominated service provider is significantly different in each application.
• Businesses that operate a taxi service, or in the share economy, including but not limited to Airbnb, Uber and food delivery businesses.