Round 1 - Business to Business Grant Program 2025-2026

This page provides an overview of the key information and dates regarding the 2025-2026 Business to Business Grant Program.

The City of Whittlesea is committed to supporting a thriving local economy by encouraging and supporting innovation, creation, growth, and opportunity.

The Business to Business (B2B) Grant Program is aimed at supporting existing small businesses to procure local products or services from a list of approved local vendors to encourage business to business interaction and transactions.

It is envisaged that the B2B Grant Program will;

• Build membership of the City of Whittlesea Business Network (WBN).
• Strengthens local supply chains and generates wealth in the community and long-term sustainability.
• Encourages and supports new and existing diverse business activities and activation in activity centres and commercial precincts.

The B2B Grant Program is offered through a competitive merit-based selection process. Qualification on the assessment criteria alone does not guarantee approval of financial incentives or funding.

The final decision is at the discretion of Council’s Grant Steering Committee and number and size of applications requested may impact decision.

Before applying you are required to read the Business to Business Grant Program Guidelines. 

This is available to download and read by clicking on the following link 2025-2026 Business to Business Grant Program.

Your application for this grant 

The City of Whittlesea pledges to respect and uphold your rights to privacy protection under the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) as established under the Privacy Act 1988 and amended by the Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Act 2012. To view Council's privacy statement, head to Council's website. 

The personal information collected in this application is being collected ONLY for the purpose of assessing, processing and allocating grant funding. Council may contact a third party to confirm details of your application.

Successful groups will be identified, together with the purpose and amount received, on Council's website and in relevant Council reports.

To ensure fairness and transparency a Declaration of a Conflict of Interest must be completed by all applicants who are affiliated with Council with any of the following roles;

1. 1. Council Officer
   2. Volunteer
   3. Appointed to Committee or working group
   4. Contractor or Consultant
   5. Councillor

Failure to disclose your affiliations and subsequent completion of the Conflict of Interest section in your application, will result in your application being deemed ‘Unsuccessful’ due to not disclosing your Conflict of Interest’.

To view the Smarty Grants Help Guide for Applicants, please click here.

When completing the form, * indicates a required field.

If you have any technical difficulties viewing the application form or accessing your account, please contact Smarty Grants directly on 9320 6888.

If you have funding related questions or need assistance to complete the application, please contact:

• Michael Schiller at Economic Development at michael.schiller@whittlesea.vic.gov.au

OR

• Community Grants Team at community.grants@whittlesea.vic.gov.au.
  
  
• If you prefer to speak to someone over the phone, please call the Council main number 9217 2170 and ask to be transferred to the relevant team.