Is your design business eligible for grant funding?
Overview
Have you ever considered grant funding for your design work?If you have ever wondered whether your design products and services might by eligible for a grant, you are not alone. Over 400 grants are currently available for innovative Australian companies and projects. But it’s almost impossible to know where to start!
- Do you know which of your projects might be eligible for grant funding?
- Do you know which of your client’s projects might be eligible for funding?
- This is your chance to help your clients get funds to employ your services.
- What are you doing to expand beyond local borders?
- Are you aware of the export grants available?
- Perhaps you are due an R&D rebate and don’t even know it!
What you will learn
During this half-day workshop, attendees will be guided step-by-step through the intricacies of identifying appropriate sources of grant funding, how to devise a grant funding strategy, leaving with the tools necessary to acquire grant support on an ongoing basis.
- Identify hidden sources of grant funding.
- Discover which grants are right for you.
- Learn how to devise a grant funding strategy.
- Grow your business with government grants and rebates.
Growing a business is hard enough. You can’t afford to do it badly. But you can afford to ease the bootstraps and accelerate your growth with grant funding and government rebates!
The Topics
PART 1: How the game is playedUnderstanding how grants work (from the source) Purpose: Introduce attendees to the basics of grant funding according to one of the Australian Federal Government's largest and most established providers of grant funding - AusIndustry. Topics: Who are the players? How is the game played? Debt versus equity versus grant funding and alternative funding.
Grant identification (identifying grants right for you) Purpose: Provide attendees with an understanding of what is required and where to start looking when seeking appropriatre grant funding - provide attendees with a structure to evaluate their own organisation for the purpose of seeking grant funding. Topics: Feasibility, the business, the market, the options.
PART 2: Doing the leg-work The Tools - How to prepare grant applications Purpose: Provide attendees with an understanding of the tools and an opportunity to work through a real grant application. Topics: The tools, the structure, the strategy.
Securing ongoing supportPurpose: Provide attendees with a strategy for securing ongoing grant funding support, as part of an organisation's structure and strategy. Learn from business owners who have "been there, done that" and included grant assistance as an ongoing ingredient of their commercial success.
Facilitators
James Tuckerman – Founder and Director,
Australian AnthillAdrian Spencer – CEO, Grant Ready
Details
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
8.00 am to 12.30 pm
Registration: 7.45 am
KPMG
147 Collins Street, Melbourne
Tickets
Cost: $495 inc. GST ($395 per person for group bookings)
Only 15 places available!
Tickets only $195 for Design Victoria members!
Enter the discount code DESIGN.
Click here to register your place online.
Related links
Anthill Magazine – www.anthillonline.com
QM Codes – www.qmcodes.comGrant Ready – www.grantready.com.auGrey Innovation – www.greyinnovation.com