Business Resilience Partnership Program
The Business Resilience Partnership Program provides funding to local councils, chambers of commerce and other industry and business stakeholder groups to work with their small business communities to enhance individual business resilience during and after natural disasters.
Phase 2
Phase 2 of the program is now open and supports small businesses impacted by the North and Far North Tropical Low that occurred between 29 January and 28 February 2025.
Delivery partners
- Local government
- Chambers of commerce
- Other industry and business stakeholder groups
Locations
The program supports small and family business owners based in the following impacted local government areas:
- Burdekin
- Cairns
- Cassowary Coast
- Charters Towers
- Hinchinbrook
- Palm Island
- Townsville
- Yarrabah.
Eligible activities
Your proposal should concentrate activities in the following areas:
- Activities that generally focus on business coaching, mentoring and networking proposed and led by local councils, chambers or industry/business groups, with a focus on small business support.
- Activities that increase understanding and knowledge of business resilience practices (including mental resilience) as well as imparting the skills to apply these practices.
- Activities that demonstrate connectivity with small businesses and relevant service providers such as:
- small business financial counsellors
- small business wellbeing coaches
- Department of Customer Services, Open Data and Small and Family Business (CDSB)
- other local business services providers.
Previous phase successful recipients
View a list of the program's phase 1 successful recipients. Phase 1 provided grants to support the impact of Tropical Cyclone Jasper and the 2023–24 South East Queensland severe storms and rainfall event.
Contact us
Email businessresilience@desbt.qld.gov.au for further information, including eligibility requirements.
This program is administered by CDSB. It is jointly supported by the Australian and Queensland governments under the Commonwealth State Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA).