Take your business online

Building and boosting your online presence and digital capabilities can help your business be more competitive, innovative and efficient.

Offering grants up to $5,000 on a matched dollar-for-dollar basis, the City’s Take Your Business Online Grant (TYBO) scheme helps local businesses enhance their digital capacity and marketing through projects including web design, social media, e-business, customer relationship management, developing apps and online marketing.

This funding is a competitive process, and applicants must demonstrate how the project will improve their business and benefit the community.

Read the Take Your Business Online Grant Scheme Policy to learn more.

Download the Take Your Business Online Grant Scheme Guidelines to find out if you are eligible.

Complete the Take Your Business Online Grant Application Form to start your application.

Call 9186 8555 or email enquiries@karratha.wa.gov.au to contact the City Growth team for more information.

Section 1: Applicant Details

Business Name

Year of Establisment

Contact Person and Position Held

Office Hours Telephone

Mobile

Australian Business Number (ABN)

Are you registered for GST

Address

Address 2

City/Town

ZIP/Postal Code

Website Address

Total project budget

Home Business Planning Approval Number (if applicable)

e.g. DA22-123

Amount Requested

Section 2: About Your Organisation

About your organisation

Please describe the operations of your business i.e. what products and services you provide:

Section 3: Project/Activities/Details

About your project / activity

Please describe the digital activity/project that you are planning to undertake:

What will your project achieve?

Please address the following:

How will this project assist your business performance?
What benefits will be directed to local residents and businesses?
How will you measure your success (i.e. increase in bookings, increase in social media engagement)?

How will this project facilitate innovation with your business?

i.e. media apps, podcasts, new social media platforms and/or blog spaces. Please describe how the technology you will use differs to what you currently have.

Start date of activity/project

Start Date

End date of activity/project

If grant monies are not utilised or acquitted within six months of notification of the City of Karratha’s endorsement, all monies allocated will be forfeited unless a written request for extended time is received and approved by the Chief Executive Officer.

Section 4: Key milestones within your project

Quotes

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Section 5: Understanding the conditions of the grant

Conditions:
Before signing off on your grant application are you fully aware of all conditions of the grant as outlined in the Take Your Business Online Grant Guidelines, namely:

Grants are for up to 50% of the project cost. Every dollar awarded must be matched dollar for dollar by the recipient.
50% of approved grant funding will be provided to the recipient once they have demonstrated initial payment of start-up costs for the proposed project through the provision of receipts, remaining 50% of grant funding will be provided upon completion of project and satisfactory completion of acquittal.
Proof of expenditure must be provided for the entire project cost during the acquittal at the end of the project.
Allocation of funding from the City to the recipient follows a set process:
- Recipient to Sign and return Conditions of grant funding letter
- Recipient returns a Supplier Application Form (for those that don’t currently do business with the City).
- The City will use this information to draft a Purchase Order.
- The recipient uses the Purchase Order number to invoice the City. Invoices must be from the recipient to the City, not from a third party to the City i.e. you cannot forward a consultant’s invoice on to the City to be paid.
- The recipient cannot invoice the City without evidence that they have contributed financially to the project start-up costs (i.e. recipient must provide initial receipts for the project).
- On receipt of the invoice the funds will be allocated to the recipient’s nominated back account.
The City must be acknowledged within your project for their contribution through the TYBO scheme.

Section 6: Declaration

I hereby certify that I am the authorised person of:

Business Name

And that:

The business has 20 or less employees

The business has all the required insurances, permits and licences

We would be able to proceed with the project if we were not successful in the funding application

The information contained herein, is to the best of my knowledge, true and correct.

First name

Last name

Signature

Sign above

Date

Section 7: Final checklist

Before submitting the application Please ensure that the following has been completed. Please note that this checklist is included that you provide all the required information for assessment of your application.
Please tick of each step once complete:

Please tick each step once complete:

Clearly defined the purpose of the grant

Have provided an estimated timeframe and pricing schedule

Have included quoted for any requested expenditure and acquittal requirement as outlined in guidelines

Provided other documents that support the application

Had the application signed off by the authorised person of the business

Please allow 10 business days for your application to be reviewed and assessed.

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Documents

Take Your Business Online Grant Scheme Policy (536.71 KB)

Take Your Business Online Guidelines (293.56 KB)

Take Your Business Online Application Form (439.12 KB)

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