The new Small Business Recovery Grant valued up to $3,000 is now open for applicants to help you rebuild your business. This grant helps small business get back to business by meeting the costs of safely reopening or up scaling operations.
What is a Small Business Recovery Grant?
If you’re a small business owner or not-for-profit organisation in an industry that’s been highly impacted by COVID-19 you may be eligible for this grant. You can use it to cover:
- fit-out changes and temporary physical changes (for example, plastic barriers at checkouts)
- staff training and counselling
- business advice and continuity planning
- cleaning products and additional cleaning services
- additional equipment necessary to comply with social distancing or other public health measures
- marketing, communications and advertising
- digital solutions (for example, e-commerce or business websites).
Note: This grant can only be used for purchases of eligible expenses made from 1 July 2020, and only where no other government support is available. If you have received a COVID-19 small business support grant of up to $10,000, you may also be eligible to apply for the $3,000 COVID-19 small business recovery grant.
Applications close, Sunday 16 August 2020
Who is eligible?
To be eligible for this grant, you must as at 1 March 2020:
- be a small business or a not-for-profit organisation based in NSW
- have an ABN registered in NSW (make sure all your business details are up to date on the Australian Business Register - this is used to determine eligibility)
- have an annual turnover of more than $75,000 (a Business Activity Statement must be provided as evidence).
Where a small business does not submit a BAS to the Australian Tax Office, and meets all other criteria, the small business should contact Service NSW to discuss further. In these cases, an income tax declaration may be accepted as evidence of an annual turnover of $75,000. - employ less than 20 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff (non-employing businesses can apply)
- be able to report a payroll below the NSW 2019-2020 payroll tax threshold of $900,000
- be in a highly impacted industry by the Public Health (COVID-19 Restrictions on Gathering and Movement) Order 2020 (see guidelines)
- have experienced at least 30% decline in turnover from March to July 2020 compared to the equivalent period (of at least 2 weeks) in 2019
- have costs associated with safely reopening or up-scaling your business from 1 July 2020.
Check Eligibility and apply online at Service NSW >
Azure Group centres of Excellence
To manage the ongoing technical issues for all of our clients including the JobKeeper eligibility and payments plus other Stimulus measures and the Fair Work changes Azure Group have established the following two centres of excellence:
- COVID-19 Stimulus Centre of Excellence; and
- Fair Work Centre of Excellence.
Each of the above centres of excellence has a dedicated team of technical specialists. If you have any specific questions about these measures please contact our centres of excellence via email: covid19queries@azuregroup.com.au
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Have you noticed our #FridayExpertTips... here's one that relates to #CoVID-19: Business Planning
"In times of crisis we often focus on ourselves and our own issues. However, in order to fully understand the long and short term impacts on your business, you have to understand the impact on those around you – your team, business partners, customers, industry, niche... and adjust accordingly."
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