Secure Communities Partnership Program QLD – Shared Security Grants

Key facts

About this grant

Summary from the official listing on business.gov.au:

This program provides funding for projects that deliver security benefits to multiple QLD small and family businesses.

Funding is available for larger, coordinated security projects that help deter crime, reduce losses and create safer business environments. These projects will provide shared security benefits to multiple Queensland small and family businesses.

Projects can be led by:

• an eligible small business
• a commercial property owner, lessor, body corporate, trustee or property manager
• other eligible entities with authority to undertake the proposed works.

Projects must provide a direct and material security benefit to at least 2 eligible Queensland small and family businesses.

Eligible projects include, but are not limited to:

• physical security and site-hardening infrastructure
• access control, alarm and monitored security systems
• security lighting and environmental security improvements
• surveillance and detection infrastructure.

What you get

Funding between $20,000 and $200,000.

Who it is for

QLD businesses, organisations and entities underking a mutally benefical coordinated security project to create safer business environments.

Eligibility

Small business applicants

To be eligible as a small business applicant, your business must:

• have 19 employees or less (by headcount)
• have a turnover in the last financial year (2025–26) of $10 million or less
• be actively operating a business whose main activity is providing goods or services to customers
• be operating, and have an active Australian business number (ABN)
• have a minimum trading history of 1 year
• be registered for goods and services tax (GST) – as per your Australian business register (ABR) record
• have a registered Queensland headquarters location (as per your ABR record).

Property or precinct-led applicants

To be eligible as a property or precinct-led applicant, you must be:

• a commercial property owner, lessor, trustee, property-holding entity, property manager or other entity (excluding local government) that meets the additional requirements in section 3.3 of the program guidelines .

Additionally, you must:

• have the authority to undertake the proposed shared security improvements
• demonstrate that the project will provide a direct and material security benefit to eligible small businesses at the site
• satisfy the small business occupancy test
• satisfy the applicable precinct size requirements.

Details are copied from the official source and can change. Check the official listing before you apply. Grant Writing Company is not affiliated with this funder.