Rural Business Tasmania Information

Established in 1986, Rural Business Tasmania Inc. is a not-for-profit association that primarily offers financial counseling and business support expertise to rural and regional communities. Rural Business Tasmania’s key objective is to help rural families, business, and the community manage the ever evolving demands and challenges facing the primary industry sector. Rural Business Tasmania has assisted many hundreds of Tasmanians to find pathways to sustainable futures. It has extensive networks that connect quickly and deeply into rural and regional communities. Delivering support to clients for periods up to 5 years, at any one time the Rural Financial Counseling Service is likely to be supporting more than 200+ clients and assisting to manage some $130 million of impaired or at risk assets Primary service: Rural Financial Counselling Service Tasmania Part of the national Federal Government funded Rural Financial Counselling Program, Rural Business Tasmania’s flagship service, Rural Financial Counselling Service Tasmania, provides confidential and independent counsel to primary producers, fishermen and small rural businesses that are suffering financial hardship. Additional support services include: Financial Support Services Bookkeeping and Administration Services Rural Relief Fund