What do you get?
Funding of $25.136 million allocated across three coverage areas over 5 years.
Who is this for?
Small business advisory service providers.
About the program
The Australian Government has announced a total of $25.136 million over 5 years from 2025-26 to 2029-30 for the grant opportunity.
ASBAS Digital Solutions Round 3 will assist service providers to offer low cost, high quality advisory services to help small businesses to adopt digital tools, across 5 priority capabilities:
- introduction to digitalising your small business
- social media, digital marketing and selling online
- using business software
- AI and emerging technologies
- cybersecurity and data privacy.
There are 3 grants available under this grant opportunity, each corresponding with a defined geographical service area. You may apply for one or more grants, to service multiple service areas. You must submit a separate application for each service area.
The maximum grant amount for each service area over 5 years is:
- $8.819 million for Area 1 - New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory
- $7.371 million for Area 2 - Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia
- $8.946 million for Area 3 - South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania.
The program will fund one service provider to exclusively service the small businesses located in each service area. The program will not fund proposals that plan to cover only part of a service area.
Services must cater for a range of skill levels (such as beginner, intermediate, advanced) and improve access for First Nations and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) small business owners.
Eligbility
You can apply if you:
- have an Australian business number (ABN) or Indigenous Corporation Number (ICN)
- are registered for the goods and services tax (GST)
- are a trading corporation where your trading activities form a sufficiently significant proportion of the corporation’s overall activities as to merit it being described as a trading corporation; or are a substantial and not merely peripheral activity of the corporation
- address all assessment criteria, including all sub-criteria, in section 6 of the grant opportunity guidelines.
and are one of the following entities:
- an entity incorporated in Australia (including incorporated not for profit organisations, registered charities and companies limited by guarantee)
- an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (Cth)
- an incorporated trustee on behalf of a trust.
You can’t apply if you are:
- any organisation not included in section 4.1 of the grant opportunity guidelines
- an organisation, or your project partner is an organisation, included on the National Redress Scheme’s list of Institutions that have not joined or signified their intent to join the Scheme
- an employer of 100 or more employees that has not complied with the Workplace Gender Equality Act (2012)
- an individual
- a partnership
- an unincorporated association
- a trust (however, an incorporated trustee may apply on behalf of a trust)
- a Commonwealth, state, territory or local government body (including government business enterprises)
- a non-corporate Commonwealth entity.
Partner with other organisations
You can partner with one or more other organisations that also meet the eligibility criteria. But you must decide who the lead organisation is.
The lead organisation must fill out the application form.
If we give your group the grant, the lead organisation:
- signs the grant agreement
- is responsible for making sure your group follows the rules in the grant agreement.
