Grants for Business

Green Business Incentive Scheme

We are committed to supporting a low carbon, water sensitive and climate-resilient city. The aim of our Green Business Incentive Scheme is to provide financial incentives to small-medium enterprises (SMEs) in the city to invest in:

  • renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainable transport technologies and measures that help reduce the city’s greenhouse gas emissions
  • on-site plantings and water-efficient irrigation systems that help reduce urban heat and increase our city’s tree canopy
  • other innovative proposals that align with aim of the scheme
  • Green Business Incentive Scheme

    Placemaking Grant

    Placemaking Grants of up to $7,500 aim to support the creation and delivery of projects in public spaces across the city. These include initiatives that improve how we feel and use our public spaces and how we can enhance the way they look and work, and also how we celebrate our heritage. The program aims is to give the community the opportunity to make their City a place where people love to be through placemaking projects of all sizes and shapes.

    Placemaking Grant

    Heritage Grants

    Heritage Grants aim to encourage owners of Local Heritage Places and Representative Buildings to maintain, conserve or restore places of local significance. Depending on the demand for assistance and funds available for the respective financial year, a maximum of 50% of the value of completed work, not to exceed $3,000 in any one financial year may be approved.

    Heritage Grants

    Events Grant

    The City of PAE’s Events Grant Program aims to help create a community that is inclusive, cohesive, creative and prosperous through the support of a program of accessible and diverse community events and festivals across the City.

    Events Grants

    Creative Industry Grant

    Creative industry grants of up to $5000 aim to support creative practitioners of all disciplines to grow their practice and deliver projects that contribute to PAE's vision for a strong, creative, impactful and suitable arts ecology.

    Creative Industry Grant

    Business Activation Grant

    Business Activations Grants of up to $1,000 aim to support local businesses and venues to activate their space, in alignment with select large-scale Council events delivered across the year.

    Business Activation Grant


    More information on Business Support provided by the City of Port Adelaide Enfield can be found on the Business Support page.

    Grant Application System(PDF, 727.36 KB)

    How to write a Grant Application (PDF, 307.19 KB)