• Business
  • Community
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Blog
  • Subscribe
  • Contact
Search
  • Listen or translate
Sign in
Welcome! Log into your account
Forgot your password? Get help
Password recovery
Recover your password
A password will be e-mailed to you.
  • Business
  • Community
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Blog
  • Subscribe
  • Contact
Home Business and economy Further support for small businesses with new focus on those run from...
  • Business and economy
  • Newsroom Email

Further support for small businesses with new focus on those run from home

By
jw47
-
29th July 2020
0
2528
Share on Facebook
Tweet on Twitter

Small businesses in South Gloucestershire who have not yet applied for a Discretionary Business Support Grant of up to £5000 to help with financial impact of Covid-19, are encouraged to apply in the third round of applications, which is now open.

We are providing another opportunity to apply for this fund with an extended focus on small and micro businesses who operate from residential premises. Applications are now open until Wednesday 12 August (at midday).

Discretionary Business Support Grants can provide financial aid to small and micro businesses towards ongoing fixed costs if they can demonstrate a significant drop in income as a result of coronavirus pandemic restriction measures.

So far, we have provided financial aid to more than 220 businesses with over £1.3 million of funding and we are keen to reach as many eligible businesses as possible, by now including those that operate from residential premises. Overall we have provided over £100 million in grants and business rates relief to support businesses through the pandemic.

The fund will prioritise the following businesses:

• businesses in shared or flexible spaces (such as units in industrial parks, science parks and incubators which do not have their own business rates assessment)
• regular market traders
• small charity properties in receipt of Charitable Business Rates Relief that would otherwise be eligible for

Small Business Rates Relief

• Bed and Breakfasts that pay council tax rather than business rates
The following are also able to apply:
• independent businesses – those that are not eligible for small business rate grants due to payment to a landlord of all-inclusive rent, or that operate form a residential premises
• charities and community organisations – those not eligible for small business rate grants due to payment to a landlord of all-inclusive rent
• childcare nurseries – those with a rateable value over £15,000 who will not have received business support grants to date, or that are not eligible for small business rate grants due to payment to a landlord of all-inclusive rent

South Gloucestershire Council’s Cabinet Member for Corporate Resources, Cllr Ben Burton said: “We are keen to reach all of the small businesses who are eligible for this scheme and have suffered financially due to the financial impact of coronavirus lockdown restrictions. Our focus in this round is those businesses that are being run from home – or any type of residential premises, to support them through these tough times. We are pleased to have already helped hundreds of local businesses with over £100 million in grants and business rates relief, and we want to reach as many as possible to help them bounce back as lockdown restrictions ease.

“We made a decision to widen the scope of the scheme to include those businesses that operate from home and may not have been successful in the first two rounds of applications. Any applications which were previously submitted and are now eligible will be reassessed without having to submit a new application.”

Successful applications from the first and second round have recently been informed they will receive a 50 per cent top-up on the payments they have already received. This has been possible because of the number of applications we received was lower than anticipated and we have been able to increase the financial support provided.

For further information on eligibility, criteria, grant amounts and any other questions, please read the Discretionary Grants Fund FAQs before beginning your application www.southglos.gov.uk/discretionaryfund

**Please note – there is no need to apply again if you have already applied but were rejected due to operating your business from a residential premises, we will reassess these claims.**

  • TAGS
  • business
  • COVID-19
SHARE
Facebook
Twitter
  • tweet
Previous articleEight councils receive MHCLG grant to identify Covid best practice and develop playbook to improve community conversations and better identify local needs
Next articleMoney and debt advice available across South Glos
jw47

RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR

A photograph of South Gloucestershire Council's Badminton Road office

Public consultation opens on updated proposals to balance council budget

One of two access pits excavated to reach the damaged drainage pipe, three metres below the road surface.

Tunnelling 80 metres under South Gloucestershire’s busiest A road

An image of the A4174 ring road

A4174 junction plans will not progress due to improved traffic movements

Recent Posts
  • South Gloucestershire Council partnered project set to receive £4.7 million Live Labs 2 highways decarbonisation funding
  • Bristol man ordered to pay £1,600 for illegally transporting scrap metal in South Gloucestershire
  • Bristol woman fined over £700 for littering in South Gloucestershire
  • New North Filton rail station approved
  • South Gloucestershire Prevention Programme gets the go ahead
Categories
  • Business and economy
  • Chair
  • Children and Young People
  • Community
  • Digital inclusion
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Featured
  • Featured
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Housing
  • Leader's blog
  • Newsroom Email
  • Newsroom Email Featured
  • Transport

EDITOR PICKS

South Gloucestershire Council 2021/2022 Budget

Recover and Rise Budget will take forward council priorities and provide...

11th February 2021
Vehicles queuing for community surge testing for Covid-19 variant in Emersons Green

An update on surge testing in Bristol and South Gloucestershire

10th February 2021
Covid-19 Get Tested - community surge testing available - A mutation of the Covid-19 UK variant is present in parts of Bristol and South Gloucestershire. Everyone aged 16 or over without symptoms in eligible postcodes should get tested to help suppress this variant, and help protect their loved ones.

Two additional testing sites to open for community surge testing

9th February 2021

POPULAR POSTS

Vehicles queuing for community surge testing for Covid-19 variant in Emersons Green

Additional Community Testing for South Gloucestershire and Bristol

6th February 2021
Covid-19 Community surge testing

Further surge testing announced in South Gloucestershire

28th February 2021

First Covid-19 Community Testing Unit to open in South Gloucestershire at...

30th September 2020

POPULAR CATEGORY

  • Newsroom Email676
  • Community357
  • Environment209
  • Health and wellbeing187
  • Transport148
  • Business and economy141
  • Education127
  • Newsroom Email Featured47
  • Digital inclusion21
ABOUT US
FOLLOW US
©