We will continue to update this page in the coming days and weeks as cyclone recovery grants are announced.
See 🆕 for updates from Sunday 9 March.
See ❇️ for updates from Thursday 13 March.
When it comes to disaster response funding, the exact details of assistance packages constantly evolve and change along with the situation at hand. We encourage you to reach out to funding providers directly for full funding details.
We are seeing grants released for immediate disaster response, as well as longer-term recovery.
If you’re a Funding Provider with a cyclone-related grant or financial assistance opportunity, please contact us to be added to this list.
Short-term payment support if you’ve lost income as a direct result of Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred that started in March 2025.
You have until 8 September 2025 to make a claim for the following Local Government Areas (LGAs):
NSW Find out more | QLD Find out more
The following support is available in affected regions during the CCS period of emergency:
NAB has opened applications for $1,000 Disaster Relief Grants to customers severely impacted by the Cyclone Alfred.
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Emergency Assistance for customers and businesses in Cyclone Alfred affected areas in south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales. A range of tailored support options are available if you or your business are impacted by the cyclone.
Personal and business customers affected by Cyclone Alfred can access various support options.
Various support options are available for personal, business and insurance customers.
Bank Of Queensland is activating its Special Relief Assistance for customers who have been impacted by natural disasters such as droughts, fires, floods and earthquakes.
If you’re living or working in an area affected by a natural disaster – e.g. bushfire, flood or cyclone – ING relief measures may be available to you (depending on the type of account you have).
A range of emergency assistance options are available for customers affected by Tropical Cyclone Alfred in south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales.
Supports communities in remote, rural and regional communities across Australia to implement initiatives that prevent and prepare for future climate related impacts, or recover from existing disasters in the medium to long-term timeframe, generally one to ten years after the disaster.
Grants up to $25,000 are available for a broad range of initiatives.
Established to assist any Indigenous corporation whose property has been directly affected by a declared natural disaster, such as a flood or cyclone.
The amount of each grant will be determined following an assessment of the immediate recovery efforts required and the costs of these efforts but is capped at $20,000 for each individual organisation.
People living with HIV may be able to access the Emergency Treatment Fund, including help with payments for other medications.
If any Northern NSW and SE QLD organisations need help writing these submissions, Jessica is offering her grant-writing skills (no charge) to help write, review or submit wherever helpful - this weekend, next week or thereafter.
Telstra can help with immediate free phone diversion from your home, mobile or business phone to another number, extra data for Pre-Paid, post-paid and Upfront mobile customers, and billing and payment support.
During recovery, Telstra can help with free call diversion from your home or business phone to another number, covering the connection cost of a new phone service at your temporary address, re-connecting your home or business phone at your original address, and billing and payment support.
A range of support is available for Belong customers in affected communities, including home internet costs, damaged modems, and payment assistance.
Prepaid customers: Eligible prepaid mobile customers on selected plans with an unexpired recharge will receive a once off 75GB of bonus data per eligible service.
You may also be eligible for a complimentary recharge on your prepaid service if your service has expired or will expire between 6 March and 10 March 2025.
Currently enrolled Griffith University students can apply for the Student Financial Support bursary if they are experiencing extreme financial hardship.
Supports netball associations or clubs that have been affected by severe weather events in 2025.
Up to $1 million will be available for 12 local governments to assist with the costs of immediate clean-up and early recovery activities.
Councils can use this funding for waste and debris removal from streets, properties, and community assets, and activities to restore public assets.
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The Emergency Hardship Assistance grant helps people affected by a disaster to get:
Food
Clothing
Medical supplies
Temporary accommodation.
You can apply for $180 per person, up to $900 for a family of 5 or more, to help purchase food, clothing and medical supplies or secure temporary accommodation. This grant isn’t income or asset tested.
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Uninsured, low income earners may receive up to $1,765 for single adults and up to $5,300 for couples or families to help with repairing or replacing essential household contents, such as beds, linen and whitegoods, that have been damaged or lost in a disaster.
**New Local Government Areas added**
The Essential Services Hardship Assistance grant is for help with essential services such as, power, gas, water, and sewage. This grant may be available if:
You live in the affected area
You have lost 1 or more essential services for more than 5 days and are experiencing personal hardship as a result
Your utility service provider/s confirm that you lost these essential services.
Grant amount: $150 for individuals, up to $750 for families of 5 or more.
**New Local Government Areas added**
Helps with safety inspections and repairs to reconnect essential services, e.g. gas, water, electricity and sewage.
Grant amount:
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Helps with structural repairs or contribution towards replacement of dwelling. This grant may be available if:
You live in the affected area
You own and live in the affected residence
Your home has become structurally unsafe to live in
You are uninsured or unable to claim insurance
You meet the income limits.
Financial hardship assistance grants provide temporary help for unforeseen circumstances for currently enrolled students at UQ.
Offers practical relief to those in urgent financial need in the Nambour area and surrounds, providing immediate assistance with food and other essential provisions.
Funding of up to $5,000 may be available for eligible sport and active recreation organisations located in disaster declared areas.
You may be eligible to apply for transport and motoring assistance for vehicle registration and licensing and other transport and motoring products.
Connects clubs impacted by Tropical Cyclone Alfred with support from the wider football community.
Nominations for QLD have been extended and close Monday 17 March at 6 pm AEST.
Not-for-profit community organisations can apply for up to $3,000 to fund projects that have arisen as a consequence of failure, damage or loss of essential equipment or infrastructure. During a declared disaster situation (such as ex-Cyclone Alfred) applicants can apply for other costs, including, but not limited to, operational costs when an organisation demonstrates financial hardship.
Following the recent severe weather event, community organisations may require immediate support to make their facilities safe, clean-up, conduct minor repairs and return to operations.
To support this relief phase of disaster recovery, Council will provide a one-off $7,500 payment to not-for-profit community organisations who have been impacted.
The RACQ Foundation will launch a special recovery grant round worth up to $500,000 for community organisations affected by Tropical Cyclone Alfred and the North Queensland floods. More details will be shared later this month.
Activated councils will have up to $1 million in funding made available once impacts are known. This will provide proactive support for communities to undertake essential immediate clean up and restoration activities for important community assets such as pre-schools, senior citizen centres, libraries and community halls.
An individual grant program for those most in need and least able to return to a safe, basic and liveable home. Grants provided under the DRG Program will be assessed on the basis of eligibility not ‘entitlement’ and may be partnered with other forms of assistance, including referrals to other agencies.
A maximum of $18,000 is available as a contribution toward the cost of re-establishing essential household items considered necessary to maintain a basic standard of living. Items include bedding, furniture, clothing and essential electrical items such as a refrigerator, washing machine, or stove.
The HHG grant assists low-income residents who have no other means of purchasing or repairing these essential household items and are not covered by insurance.
Rough sleepers can apply for a small grant that is contribution to replacing essential items, such as a tent and sleeping bag. A flat rate of $1,200 is available plus $150 for each additional resident.
Provides a contribution toward essential structural works for households unable to meet the cost of repairs and may also assist in relocation-related costs. These grants assist low-income homeowners who have no other means of restoring their homes to a safe and habitable condition.
There are 4 types of Structural Grants available (depending on the type of damage suffered by the eligible applicant):
Repair Grant: A contribution towards essential structural repairs to a Residence (including a relocatable home) to assist in restoring it to a safe and habitable condition – grant amount is determined based on assessment of scope of works and threshold considerations.
Rebuild Grant: A contribution towards the rebuild of a residence (including a relocatable home) to a basic level that has been rendered uninhabitable – grant amount is determined based on assessment of scope of works and threshold considerations.
Temporary Dwelling Grants: A Flat-rate Temporary Dwelling Package – flat rate of $5,000 for repairs and $10,000 if the temporary dwelling has been rendered uninhabitable.
Access Grant: A contribution of up to $50,000 towards a basic level of repairs to legal accessways on private property where there are no safe alternate routes to the residence or temporary dwelling (and where the Accessway was maintained and fit for purpose prior to the Natural Disaster).
A subsidy of up to $15,000 is available to eligible primary producers for the transport of fodder and/or water to a property, stock to/from agistment, stock to sale or slaughter, or bee or oyster movements.
Primary producers, small business operators, sporting and recreation clubs and associations and non-profit organisations in disaster-declared local government areas may apply for a concessional loan to support rapid recovery.
DPIRD - AASFA will be providing funding to private veterinarians to facilitate emergency animal assessment and treatment for a condition that is as a direct result of the disaster event.
Private veterinarians can provide “emergency animal treatment for a condition that is as a result of the flood event” without seeking prior approval. This will be done by DPIRD - AASFA issuing initial Finance Request (authority to spend the agreed value) approvals for each practice to the total value of $10,000.
Free legal help if you’ve been affected by a disaster, including storm, flood or bushfire. Legal Aid can help with legal problems including insurance claims and disputes, housing and tenancy, financial hardship, workplace rights, Centrelink, domestic and family violence, and government disaster grants.
Over the coming weeks, Hockey NSW will be working with affected clubs and associations to assess the impact of Cyclone Alfred and provide support where needed. "We have undertaken similar recovery efforts in the past for clubs impacted by floods and other natural disasters."