Energy Bill Assistance
Drought Relief Assistance - AGL
AGLs Drought Relief Assistance initiative could help you get back on track with your energy bills and take some pressure off running your farm. Simply complete the online application form and you could wipe up to $1,500 (incl GST) of existing debt from your AGL business energy account.
Registration Assistance
Registration Relief for Farmers - RMS
To give farmers and their families some much needed drought relief from 30 July 2018 Roads and Maritime Services are waiving registration charges on Class 1 agricultural vehicles.
Financial Counselling
Rural Financial Counselling Service
Rural Financial Counsellors provide a free, impartial & confidential service, working closely with eligible clients (eligible clients include farmers, fishing enterprises, forestry growers and harvesters, and small related businesses who are suffering, or at imminent risk of suffering financial hardship) to assist them to resolve urgent issues and develop a plan for their future and that of their families and their enterprise.
Training Assistance
Subsidised Skills Training - Training Services NSW
The NSW Government is subsidising skills training for farmers and regional businesses impacted by the drought to support off farm income and diversification of business practices.
Access to this funding aims to provide support to farmers and businesses to manage the impact of the drought.
Department of Agriculture
Drought and Rural Assistance
The Department of Agriculture has various programs and packages available for drought assistance.
Department of Primary Industries
DroughtHub
The NSW Department of Primary Industries has a variety programs, subsidies and information available for drought assistance
Mental Health
Rural Resilience Program
The Rural Resilience team work with primary producers across regional and remote NSW to build personal and family resilience, which is an essential tool to withstand the challenges of rural life and farm based businesses.
Rural Adversity Mental Health Program
RAMHP has 19 Coordinators based across regional, rural and remote NSW who inform, educate and connect individuals, communities and workplaces with appropriate services and programs.
Farming Community Counselling Service
The Farming Community Counselling Service is to provide 1:1 professional support and/or counselling to farmers, their families and the wider agricultural community including people who work in agriculture and rural communities impacted by the drought.
Rural Assistance Authority
Rural Assistance Authority
The NSW Rural Assistance Authority (RAA) has decades of experience and expertise in the assessment and administration of financial assistance schemes to primary producers and small business operators in NSW on behalf of both the NSW and Australian Governments.
Community Assistance
Tackling Tough Times Together
The Tackling Tough Times Together grant program helps communities access the resources they need to support one another through the ongoing effects of the drought.
Grants are available for a broad range of grassroots, community-led initiatives that directly and clearly benefit local communities. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis and assessed quarterly.