Strategic partnership offers enhanced value to NDIS and Aged Care clients

Jan 6, 2021 | News

Strategic partnership offers enhanced value to NDIS and Aged Care clients

KLR Communications is excited to announce its strategic partnership with specialist social and community services sector advisor, SoCom Consulting.

“With our NDIS and Aged Care client base continuing to grow, it made sense for us to align ourselves with an organisation specialising in registration and compliance in these industries,” said KLR Communications’ Managing Director, Kathryn Garth.

“Our complimentary services and exposure to both the back-end and front-end needs of these clients enables a continuous feedback loop and ongoing improvement of our systems and processes. This equates to streamlined, wrap-around services and the ultimate success of our clients’ businesses.“

SoCom Consulting brings together a team of consultants, industry experts and nurse practitioners with experience delivering services and strategic advice to disability and aged care providers and hospitals. They provide ready to use policy and provider application packs, as well as full-service options and bespoke consultancy for new and existing providers.

To learn more about SoCom Consulting, please visit their website or contact us.

Department of Social Services opens latest funding opportunities under ILC Program

Oct 28, 2020 | News

Department of Social Services opens latest funding opportunities under ILC Program

NDIS Policies and Procedures

The Department of Social Services has opened its latest round of funding opportunities under the Information, Linkages and Capacity Building Program.  The available grants are:

  • Economic Participation Grant Opportunity 2020-21 – available funding is between $250,000 and $1.2 million.
  • Social and Community Participation Grant Opportunity 2020-21 – available funding is between $20,000 and $50,000 (small grant), or $100,000 and $350,000 (large grant)

 

The closing date for both grants is 11:00pm AEDT on Tuesday 8 December 2020.

If you believe your organisation has a project that delivers on the intended outcomes for either of the above grant opportunities, please contact us for an obligation free strategy consultation.  See below for further information.

Economic Participation Grant Opportunity 2020-21

This grant opportunity aims to improve the economic participation of people with disability, particularly in light of the impact of COVID-19.  Projects awarded funding under this program will need to deliver at least two of the following three outcomes:

Assist people with a disability to improve their job readiness, employment related skills and knowledge

  • Assist people with a disability and other stakeholders to gain increased access to employer groups and employment support networks
  • Increase the willingness and capability of employers and organisations to employ people with a disability

 Priority cohorts for this grant opportunity are:

  • rural and remote based people with disability
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability
  • young people with disability
  • people with disability from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds.

Social and Community Participation Grant Opportunity 2020-21

This grant opportunity aims to enable the participation of people with a disability in community life – particularly in arts, culture, sport and recreation activities, with the intended outcomes including:

  • Community organisation are more inclusive of people with disability, their families and carers
  • Community access is improved for people with disability, their families and carers
  • People with a disability, their families and carers are included in the response to or recovery from COVID-19 and/or recent natural disaster.

Organisations that represent one or more of the following cohorts are encouraged to apply:

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
  • culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities
  • lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer/questioning, asexual (LGBTIQA+) people
  • children and young people (0-24 years)
  • communities living in remote and very remote areas (Monash Modified Model 6-7).

Contact us for an obligation free strategy consultation.

Gr8motive wins bid to deliver On Country support in Townsville

Jul 3, 2020 | News

Gr8motive wins bid to deliver On Country support in Townsville

The team at KLR Communications wishes to congratulate our client, Gr8motive, on its successful bid to deliver an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-led cultural support program aimed at improving the lives of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who are at risk and require support to move out of the justice system.

The program will engage local elders who will mentor referred youth from the Townsville region in activities undertaken On Country, with a view to addressing their physical, spiritual, emotional and cultural wellbeing, destigmatising young people as offenders and repositioning them as proud cultural people.

 

“It is always an honour to work with such socially supportive, human rights focussed organisations and connection with the land is something that is close to my own heart,” said Kathryn Garth, KLR Communications’ Managing Director.

 

“This tender win empowers this great indigenous-owned organisation to give back to their community and potentially change a young person’s entire life path. I am really looking forward to working with the team across the life of the program.“

Gr8motive will work closely with the Department of Youth Justice, families and local community organisations to overcome trauma, abuse, alcohol and drug use and to reframe a young person’s image so they feel strong and connected and reengage with education and employment.

The initial contract period is for 1 year, with a 2 year extension option.

Small Business COVID-19 Adaption Grant Program

Jun 19, 2020 | News

Small Business COVID-19 Adaption Grant Program

Corporate Communications

The Queensland government will be opening Round 2 of the Small Business COVID-19 Adaption Grant Program on 1 July 2020. This program comes as Stage 2 of Queensland’s Economic Recovery Strategy and will allow small regional businesses located in South East Queensland and Regional Queensland the opportunity to apply for a minimum of $2,000 and a maximum of $10,000 of the $100 million made available for this second round of grants.

Program aim

The aim of this program is to support small businesses who have been impacted by COVID-19 and the shutdown restrictions announced by the Queensland Government since 23 March 2020:

  • Allowing small businesses to safely resume trading during the COVID-19 recovery
  • Continuing to meet operating costs
  • Accessing digital technologies to rebuild and transition to a new way of doing business
  • Upskilling and reskilling business owners and staff
  • Embracing diversification to adapt and sustain operations
  • Creating and retaining employment and maintaining potential for longer-term growth

While there is no set deadline for the application, we recommend applications be submitted as quickly as possible, as Round 1 was closed within a week due allocated funding being quickly exhausted.

Eligibility

To be eligible for the grant, your business must:

  • Have been subject to closure or otherwise highly impacted by shutdown restrictions that began with the announcement by Queensland’s Chief Health Officer on 23 March 2020.
  • Include financial statements to demonstrate a decline in revenue of 30% or more since 23 March 2020 over a minimum one-month period (e.g. BAS Statement or accountant letter), annual turnover and payroll evidence.
  • Employ staff and have fewer than 20 employees at the time of application (on payroll and not including business owners)
  • Have a valid Australian Business Number (ABN) active as at 23 March 2020
  • Be registered for GST (please note this grant will not refund any GST paid and this will need to be claimed in your normal BAS)
  • Be Queensland headquartered
  • Have an annual turnover over $75,000 for the 2018-19 or 2019-20 financial year or proof that this will be met for recently started businesses
  • Have a payroll of less than $1.3 million
  • Not be insolvent or have owners or directors that are an undischarged bankrupt
  • Not have successfully received funding during Round 1 of the program

In addition to meeting the eligibility criteria, applications will be assessed against the following:

  • Funding availability (applications will be assessed on a first come, first served basis)
  • Submission of a complete application form with all requested supporting documentation included
  • Value for money, as determined by the Queensland Government

What is funded?

Due to the significant impacts of COVID-19 on small businesses, the grant can be used for any of the below activities occurring from 23 March 2020:

  • Financial, legal or other professional advice to support sustainability and diversification
  • Operational costs (including utilities, council rates, rent, telecommunications, insurance fees, licensing, and franchise fees)
  • Strategic planning, financial counselling or business coaching aligned to business development and diversification
  • Marketing and communications content development that will build the business (e.g. website pages, mobile apps, visual and audio media etc.)
  • Digital/technological strategy development
  • Digital training or re-training and upskilling employees to adapt to new business models
  • Capital costs associated with meeting COVID-19 safety requirements
  • Specialised digital equipment or business specific software to move business operations online (e.g. logistics program for online ordering)

If successful, you will have 6 months to complete your project/spend the agreed funds, following which you have one month to submit an acquittal form with all your receipts and an outline of the outcomes of the project/activities, before reimbursement is provided.

To discuss your eligibility and/or obtain a quote to assist you in delivering projects under this grant, please contact us here. 

Celebrating another successful panel appointment

Jun 7, 2020 | News

Celebrating another successful panel appointment

Marketing Strategy

The KLR Communications team was delighted this week to receive news its client, Luminoso Recruitment, has been successfully appointed to the Department of Housing and Public Works’ Preferred Supplier Panel for the provision of temporary and contracted workers in the category of Information, Communication and Technology. 

“It was a pleasure to work with Luminoso and to guide them, as a first time panel applicant, through the tender process. We are very excited for the opportunity this panel appointment offers their growing business”,

said KLR Managing Director, Kathryn Garth.

Panel appointments range between 12 and 24 months, depending on prior experience providing services to government entities.

Small Business Digital Grant secured at critical time

May 31, 2020 | News

Small Business Digital Grant secured at critical time

Small Business Digital Grants Program

The team at KLR Communications are delighted to receive news that several of our clients have secured vital government funding to assist in continued business development.

Results of Round 7 of the Queensland Government’s Small Business Digital Grant have been released in recent days, providing recipients with up to $10,000 in funding to support businesses to improve their digital capabilities, work smarter and take advantage of online business opportunities.

“While we made submissions on behalf of our clients in December last year, the timing of this release could not have been better for several of our SME clients”, said Managing Director, Kathryn Garth.

 

“The ability to direct funds toward important employee costs, while knowing digital capabilities and associated hardware and software costs are covered by the grant allows our clients to stay focused on their capability development in these very uncertain times.”

Future rounds are scheduled to open, so Queensland-based businesses with less than 20 employees and revenue below $2 million are encouraged to get in touch.

KLR Communications specialises in securing valuable projects and funding across a number of industries and from various sources, so that our clients can continue to deliver important services.

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