Sarah Courtney,Minister for Small Business, Hospitality and Events
Tasmania's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic is well underway and we are focussed on delivering our clear, long term plan to secure Tasmania's future.
We will continue to support our 39,000 plus small businesses, the power house of our economy, across all sectors and regions, by providing access to specialist financial counselling through a new COVID-19 Small Business Financial Counselling Support Program.
We will provide $1 million over 12 months to help eligible businesses access the financial advice they need to help them to plan and implement recovery, transition or other strategies to address business impacts due to the pandemic.
This Program builds on our nation leading Small Business Support Package (relative to Gross State Product), which has helped to keep Tasmanian businesses operating and thousands of Tasmanians in jobs.
It will run in parallel with the Government funded mental health support programs, we are delivering through a Tasmanian Lifeline, the Mental Health Council #checkin campaign and sector specific programs delivered through Industry Peak Bodies, providing wrap-around support for businesses doing it tough. It will also complement existing financial support through grant and loan programs delivered by State Growth.
We are proud that our $80 million small business support grant programs have provided more than 20,000 grants to more than 14,000 individual Tasmanian small businesses across the State.
For up to date information on support for small businesses please contact Business Tasmania on 1800 440 026 or visit www.business.tas.gov.au
