Deadline: 21 October 2024
The City of Vincent has launched the Business Enhancement Grant to support business and property owners to make small-scale improvements that enhance the street appeal and functionality of the neighbourhoods and town centres and create better experiences for residents.
Funding Information
- This is a matched grant with applicants able to apply for up to 50 per cent of their eligible total project cost to a maximum grant application of $5000 excluding GST.
- For example, for a project worth $4000, the owner could apply for a $2000 grant from the City and pay the remaining $2000 themselves.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Applicants
- Small businesses with 1 to 19 full-time employees and an ABN; or not-for-profit organisations or charities that lease a commercial shopfront.
- Strata bodies and property owners that lease a commercial shopfront to the aforementioned applicants.
- Eligible Enhancements
- Facade enhancements including cleaning and painting, structural repair, tiling, external architectural and/or artistic façade features.
- Upgrading existing or installing new street furniture, affixed eating area furniture, parklets and eatlets as per the Vibrant Public Spaces Policy.
- Alfresco dining as per the Outdoor Eating Area Permit.
- Displaying goods in a window display or on the footpath.
- Upgrading entrances for universal access.
- Public art including murals, sculptures, installations and bespoke street furniture.
- Window dressing and front window displays including vacant shopfront windows.
- Enhancement or activation of underused space and/or adaptive re-use of a space.
- Opening up a tenancy for servery windows.
- Improvements to frontages to interact with the street, such as bi-fold windows or doors.
- Installing or upgrading awnings/canopies.
- Removal of redundant signage, air conditioning units and hoardings.
- Removal of window coverings, roller shutters and screening.
- Creative place branding signage including creative lighting or projections on facades, awnings and footpaths.
- Landscaping including planter boxes or vertical gardens on public and private property.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Ineligible Applicants
- Franchise businesses.
- Businesses located outside of the City of Vincent.
- Ineligible Enhancements
- Enhancements cannot predominantly involve business signage including business name or logo and/or specific product advertising.
- Projects that are already funded or supported by the City of Vincent.
- Enhancements that have already commenced or been installed.
For more information, visit City of Vincent.
