Small businesses in the city impacted by COVID-19 will benefit from new government grants of up to $10,000.
The grants will be used for enhancing and activating outdoor areas, supporting jobs and driving patronage in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
To better enable social distancing and support small business, the South. Australian government has committed $300,000 to the City of Adelaide Outdoor Activation Grant.
The City of Adelaide will administer the grants to eligible city and North Adelaide businesses, to be used to fund medium to long-term street level improvements.
Businesses are encouraged to implement ideas that will support them to:
- Activate the outdoor areas adjacent to their business
- Enhance the presentation of a building or business
- Complement the character of the surrounding area and contribute to amenity and a more interesting and exciting street experience.
Eligible improvements include:
- Fixed external heating and cooling devices
- Non-fixed outdoor dining furniture including portable outdoor heaters
- Awnings/shade provisions
- Repainting of external shop frontage, including artwork and murals
- Adding external materials that provide attractive detail, such as texture or tiling • Improving accessibility for all users
- Adding greening elements such as planting vines, green walls or window boxes
- Addition of bi-fold windows to the street front
Anyone who owns a currently active business or property with a currently active small business in the city of North Adelaide can apply for the grants of up to $10,000 to cover 80 per cent of the cost of improvements.
Each business will need to fund 20 per cent of the project costs.
Lord Mayor Sandy Verschoor said the grants are a great opportunity for businesses to make a range of improvements to help them recover and thrive from the impacts of COVID19.
“We understand just how tough it is for our city and North Adelaide businesses right now and this is another useful way we can offer our support to help attract customers back to these businesses,” said the Lord Mayor.
“Businesses can make improvements such as fixed external heating and cooling devices, non-fixed outdoor dining furniture or even greening elements such as planting vines, green walls or window boxes.
“These are the types of projects that might be put on hold while business owners watch their spending at a time like this but we’re encouraging them to go ahead and are here to help meet the costs involved.”
The City of Adelaide Outdoor Activation Grant opens today. Click here to learn more.
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