Get help to improve your business and take advantage of growth opportunities
Provides free growth facilitation (pairing businesses with an independent facilitator who assesses the business and produces a Growth Roadmap or SMART Roadmap) and access to a matched Growth Grant to implement recommended growth activities.
The Growth Grant provides matched funding to help businesses act on facilitator recommendations.
To apply for facilitation you must:
- have an Australian business number (ABN)
- be registered for goods and services tax (GST)
- be a company incorporated in Australia or an incorporated trustee applying on behalf of a trust
- have the intent and opportunity to engage in or increase trade in Australian markets and/or markets in other countries
- operate in Australia and have filed business activity statements showing ongoing trading in at least 3 consecutive years
- have annual turnover or operating expenditure in one of the last 3 financial years between $1.5 million and $100 million (or between $750,000 and $100 million if located in remote or northern Australia)
- and operate in, or support, one of Australia’s growth sectors (advanced manufacturing; food and agribusiness; medical technologies and pharmaceuticals; mining equipment, technology and services; oil, gas and energy resources)
Support services to these sectors (freight and logistics; infrastructure related construction and services; information and communications technologies; digital technologies; professional services) are accepted where they drive growth or competitiveness through a direct commercial relationship in the growth sectors.
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Last updated: 12 February 2026