Business Advisory Grants
The Business Advisory (BA) Stream provides eligible organisations with access to grants to engage specialist professional advisory support. Designed to build on the findings of a Growth Readiness Assessment, the stream funds targeted consultancy across the capability areas most critical to organisational growth, finance, business planning, asset management, and risk management.
Key Information
- Status: Closed
- Grant amount: Up to $50,000
- Application opened: 1 July 2026
- Application closed: 15 July 2026
- Link to the Application: coming July 2026
- Link to the Grant Guidelines: coming June 2026
About The Stream
The Business Advisory Stream operates on a milestone-based funding model, with projects able to extend across 12 months depending on scope. Organisations may apply for support across multiple activity areas within a single application, provided the proposed work forms a consistent strategy aligned with program objectives. Tier 2 and Tier 3 registered CHOs and ACHOs implementing recommendations from a completed Growth Readiness Assessment may be eligible for grants exceeding $50,000.
What The Grant Can Fund
Business Advisory grants can be applied to professional consultancy services across the following four areas:
- Finance: project and business financial modelling, financial risk analysis, and key financial ratios to strengthen organisational decision-making and financial sustainability
- Business Planning: project and business planning, preparation of business cases, forming and monitoring partnerships, and developing strategic plans that position the organisation for growth
- Assett Management: developing or procuring new social and affordable housing, mixed-tenure and place-based approaches, sustainable and accessible property design, urban planning, and establishing or upgrading property and tenancy management capabilities
- Risk Management: understanding, managing, monitoring, and mitigating business, financial, policy, and governance risks
Eligibility
To be eligible for a Business Advisory grant, an organisation must:
- Be operating in Western Australia and delivering or actively developing community housing services.
- Be one of the following organisation types:
- Registered Community Housing Organisation (Tier 1, 2 or 3)
- Organisation registered under the National Regulatory System for Community Housing (NRSCH)
- Be an Aboriginal Community Housing Organisation (ACHO), whether registered or unregistered
- Be an aspiring or emerging community housing organisation working toward housing service delivery or have a National Regulatory System for Community Housing (NRSCH) registration
- Demonstrate that the proposed activities align with one or more of the four BA capability focus areas
- Propose activities that will lead to demonstrable organisational capability uplift and contribute to social and affordable housing growth
Grant Conditions
- Grants are capped at $50,000 (ex GST) per project.
- Grants exceeding $50,000 may only be approved for Tier 2 or Tier 3 CHOs implementing recommendations from a completed Growth Readiness Assessment.
- The full grant amount is disbursed in a milestone-based payment.
- Organisations may engage advisors from the Business Advisory Approved Supplier List or their own external contractor; where an organisation engages outside the Panel, three quotes or a written sole-supplier justification must be provided at application stage.
- Successful applicants consent to the publication of their organisation name as a grant recipient; project scope and budget details will not be publicly disclosed.
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