Secure Communities Partnership Program - Small Businesses Security Grants

You can apply as:

- An individual small and family business

- A property owner, lessor or other authorised entity — where improvements directly benefit eligible small business tenants.

You can apply for between $1,500 and $20,000 (excluding GST) depending on project type, and use the grant to pay for:

- Alarm systems

- Access control and entry management

- Surveillance and detection

- Lighting and environmental security improvements

- Physical security items

- Mobile business security.

You must contribute 50% of your eligible project costs, meaning your total eligible project costs must be between $3,000 and $40,000 (excluding GST):

- $3,000 minimum for projects involving mobile business assets such as a vehicle, trailer or cart (minimum grant of $1,500)

- $5,000 minimum for fixed-premises or combined fixed and mobile projects (minimum grant of $2,500).

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 GST (as per your Australian Business Register (ABR) record)

- Have a registered Queensland headquarters location (as per your ABR record).

Property Owner or Lessor Applicants

Property owners, lessors, body corporates, trustees, property managers and other authorised entities may apply for security improvements that directly benefit eligible Queensland small business tenants. You must:

- Have ownership, management responsibility or other lawful authority to undertake the project

- Be able to enter into a funding agreement and manage the grant funding

- Have an active ABN

- Be registered for GST (as per your ABR record)

- Have a minimum trading history of 1 year

- Be solvent and, where applicable, not bankrupt

- Demonstrate the project will provide a direct benefit to eligible Queensland small business tenants

- Provide evidence of your authority to undertake the project and the tenant's eligibility.