Exceptional Disaster Assistance Recovery Grants are available to assist directly impacted primary producers, small businesses and non profit organisations with the costs of clean-up and reinstatement.

Grants are available for affected producers, small business and non-profit organisations following the North and Far North Tropical Low, 29 January - 28 February 2025, to hire or purchase equipment and materials, clean up, remove debris, repair or replace damaged infrastructure or goods and other costs associated with the recovery process.

Applicants need to show they are an eligible organisation, within the declared disaster area and demonstrate they have suffered direct impact from the disaster. Read below and the guidelines for more information.

Funding available is below: 

• Primary producer - up to $75,000
• Small business - up to $50,000
• Non-profit organisation - up to $50,000.

Eligible clean-up, reinstatement activities and emergency measures include:

• Equipment and materials to undertake clean-up
• Additional labour costs (above and beyond normal wage expenditure i.e. day-to-day staffing)
• Disposing of damaged goods and stock, including associated costs
• Repairs to buildings (other than housing)
• Purchase or hire/ lease costs for equipment essential to the immediate resumption of the business
• Payment for tradespeople to conduct safety inspections
• Essential repairs to premises and internal fittings that are not covered by insurance
• Replacement of lost or damaged stock if the replacement is essential for immediately resuming operations
• Leasing temporary premises for the purpose of resuming operation

To be eligible for an Exceptional Disaster Assistance Recovery Grant, you as the applicant must:

• be a non-profit organisation
• have a non-profit organisation located in the defined area for the eligible disaster and have suffered direct damage as a result of the eligible disaster
• have been engaged in carrying on the non-profit organisation when affected by the eligible disaster
• be primarily responsible for meeting the costs claimed in the application
• be unable to repair or replace assets directly damaged as a result of the eligible disaster from the applicant's own resources without assistance under the scheme; and
• intend to re-establish the organisation in the defined disaster area for the eligible disaster.

• Website: https://www.qrida.qld.gov.au/contact-us