Eligible applicants 

• Small businesses with 1 to 19 full-time employees and an ABN; or not-for-profit organisations or charities that lease a commercial shopfront.
• Strata bodies and property owners that lease a commercial shopfront to the aforementioned applicants.

Ineligible applicants

• Franchise businesses.
• Businesses located outside of the City of Vincent.

Eligible enhancements

• Facade enhancements including cleaning and painting, structural repair, tiling, external architectural and/or artistic façade features.
• Upgrading existing or installing new street furniture, affixed eating area furniture, parklets and eatlets as per the Vibrant Public Spaces Policy.
• Alfresco dining as per the Outdoor Eating Area Permit.
• Displaying goods in a window display or on the footpath.
• Upgrading entrances for universal access.
• Public art including murals, sculptures, installations and bespoke street furniture.
• Window dressing and front window displays including vacant shopfront windows.
• Enhancement or activation of underused space and/or adaptive re-use of a space.
• Opening up a tenancy for servery windows.
• Improvements to frontages to interact with the street, such as bi-fold windows or doors.
• Installing or upgrading awnings/canopies.
• Removal of redundant signage, air conditioning units and hoardings.
• Removal of window coverings, roller shutters and screening.
• Creative place branding signage including creative lighting or projections on facades, awnings and footpaths.
• Landscaping including planter boxes or vertical gardens on public and private property.

Ineligible enhancements

• Enhancements cannot predominantly involve business signage including business name or logo and/or specific product advertising.
• Projects that are already funded or supported by the City of Vincent.
• Enhancements that have already commenced or been installed.