Disaster Assistance Loans are available to assist non-profit organisations with re-establishing normal operations. 

Concessional loans are provided to assist you to re-establish the normal operations of your non-profit organisation by covering costs such as: 

• repairing or replacing damaged plant and equipment 
• repairing or replacing essential premises including grounds, amenities and infrastructure
• supplying stock for up to one month to replace lost stock and maintain liquidity of the organisation.

Defined disaster areas

The Minister for Fire and Emergency Services has activated disaster assistance for:

South East Queensland Severe Storms and Rainfall, 24 December 2023 - 3 January 2024

• City of Gold Coast Council
• Logan City Council
• Scenic Rim Regional Council

Applications close 31 December 2025.

Tropical Cyclone Jasper, associated rainfall and flooding, 13 - 28 December 2023

• Cairns Regional Council
• Cassowary Coast Regional Council
• Cook Shire Council
• Douglas Shire Council
• Mareeba Shire Council
• Tablelands Regional Council
• Wujal Wujal Aboriginal Shire Council
• Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council

Applications close 31 December 2025.

Northern and Central Queensland Monsoon and Flooding, 20 December 2022 - 30 April 2023

To be eligible for assistance your property must be located in one of the defined disaster areas:

• Boulia Shire Council
• Burke Shire Council
• Carpentaria Shire Council
• Cloncurry Shire Council
• Doomadgee Aboriginal Shire Council 
• Mornington Shire Council
• Mount Isa City Council

Applications close 31 December 2024.

What can the funding be used for?

Concessional loans are provided to assist you to re-establish the normal operations of your non-profit organisation by covering costs such as: 

• repairing or replacing damaged plant and equipment 
• repairing or replacing essential premises including grounds, amenities and infrastructure
• supplying stock for up to one month to replace lost stock and maintain liquidity of the organisation

Eligibility criteria:

To be eligible for a loan: 

• the applicant must be a non-profit organisation
• the applicant has suffered direct damage essential premises, plant, equipment or stock as a result of an eligible disaster
• the non-profit organisation was carried on in the defined disaster area immediately before the eligible disaster.

To be eligible applicants must also:

• provide security satisfactory to QRIDA
• demonstrate an ability to repay the loan 
• have taken reasonable precautions to avoid or minimise loss or damage from the disaster, for example - adequate insurance
• be responsible for the cost of repairing or replacing the damaged assets
• be unable to repair or replace the damaged assets or return to operations from their own resources or without assistance under the scheme
• have used all liquid assets and all normal credit sources up to normal credit limits (this will be assessed in relation to the expected cost of recovery and projected cash flow shortfalls)
• have not taken excessive risks in carrying on the non-profit organisation.

• Phone: 1800 623 946
• Email: contact_us@qrida.qld.gov.au