Community Housing Futures Program - Business Advisory Grants Round 2

Submissions closed at midnight 23 February 2024 (AEST).

>>>>BEFORE YOU BEGIN THIS APPLICATION - PLEASE READ THE GRANT GUIDELINES HERE<<<<

Eligible organisations can apply for a grant of up to $50,000.00 (ex GST) through this application to cover the cost of tailored assistance from the Approved Professional Advisory Panel covering one or more of the four key areas:

  • Finance: project and business financial modeling, financial risk analysis, and key ratios.
  • Business planning: project and business planning, preparation of business cases, forming partnerships, monitoring.
  • Property development: developing or procuring new social and affordable housing, mixed tenure, sustainable and accessible property design, urban planning, and placemaking.
  • Risk management: understanding risks (business, financial, policy, governance, etc.) and managing, monitoring, and mitigating risk.

If there is a professional service the CHO wishes to engage but is not on the Approved Professional Services Panel yet, please request they complete an EOI HERE.

 

ELIGIBILITY

Organisations must meet all of the following criteria to be eligible for funding under this program:

  • Organisations must be a community housing provider (under the National Regulatory System for Community Housing (NRSCH), The Queensland State Regulatory System for Community Housing (QSRSCH) or an Indigenous Community Housing Provider).
  • Organisations must be delivering or intending to deliver additional housing supply in Queensland.
  • Organisations must have supply growth as a strategic objective and have capacity to increase affordable and social housing supply.

>>>>BEFORE YOU BEGIN THIS APPLICATION - PLEASE READ THE GRANT GUIDELINES HERE<<<<

For information, please visit Business Advisory Program | Community Housing Futures or contact communityhousingfutures@qshelter.asn.au.

 

APPLICATION ADMINISTRATION

NAVIGATING (MOVING THROUGH) THE APPLICATION FORM

On the right hand side of every screen, there is a box which links directly to every page of the application. Click the link to jump directly to page you want.

You can also click 'next page' or 'previous page' on the top or bottom of each page to move forward or backward through the application.

 

SAVING YOUR DRAFT APPLICATION

If you wish to leave a partially completed application, press 'save' and log out. When you log back in and click on the ‘My Applications’ link at the top of the screen, you will find a list of any applications you have started or submitted. You can reopen your draft application and start where you left off.

You can also download any application, whether draft or completed, as a PDF. Click on the ‘Download’ button at the bottom of the application navigation panel.

 

SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION

You will find a ‘Review’ button at the bottom of the Navigation Panel. You need to review your application before you can submit it.

Once you have reviewed your application you can submit it by clicking on 'Submit' at the top of the screen or on the navigation panel. You will not be able to submit your application until all the compulsory questions are completed.

Once you have submitted your application, no further editing or uploading of support materials is possible.

When you submit your application, you will receive an automated confirmation email with a copy of your submitted application attached. This will be sent to the email you used to register.

If you do not receive a confirmation of submission email then your submission has NOT been received.

 

ATTACHMENTS AND SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS

You may need to upload/submit attachments to support your application. This is very simple, but requires you to have the documents saved on your computer, or on a zip drive, or similar.

You need to allow enough time for each file to upload before trying to attach another file. Files can be up to 25MB each; however, we do recommend trying to keep files to a maximum of 5MB – the larger the file, the longer the upload time.

If you are not able to upload a document, please contact us for support (see contact details above).

 

COMPLETING AN APPLICATION IN A GROUP/TEAM

A number of people can work on an application using the same log in details as long as only one person is working at a time. Ensure you save as you go.

 

SPELL CHECK

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