COVID-19: business grant funding

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Local restrictions support grants (LRSG)

The latest business grant funding, to cover the national restriction measures put in place by Government, are as follows, you only need to apply once to receive the funding your business is eligible for under all schemes:

A one-off payment for the 28-day period from 5 November to 2 December 2020 (this grant funding is only available to businesses that were told to close in that lockdown period)
Based on this initial application, further support is available for those businesses in the hospitality and leisure sectors to cover the Tier 2 restriction period during December
Based on this initial application, further support is available to cover the Tier 4 restriction period from 26 December 2020 to 4 January 2021
Based on this initial application, further support is available to cover the 42-day period of national lockdown from 5 January onwards
A one-off payment to cover the national lockdown period from 5 January to mid-February known as the Closed Business Lockdown Payment (CBLP)

Business and venues which must close

To qualify for these grants, your business premises must be in the East Suffolk area and have been:

trading on the day before national lockdown restrictions came into force
liable for paying business rates
required to close due to Government lockdown restrictions for the November lockdown, Tier 4 restrictions and/or January lockdown periods
be within the hospitality and leisure business sectors for the Tier 2 funding scheme

The value of the grant varies depending on the business premises’ rateable value:

Rateable value of property	Grant for 28 days (November lockdown)	Grant per 14 day periods in Tier 2 restrictions (will be paid pro-rata to cover the number of days in Tier 2 restrictions)	Grant per 14 day periods in Tier 4 restrictions (will be paid pro-rata to cover the number of days in Tier 4 restrictions)	Grant per 42 day period (Jan-Feb lockdown)	One-off grant payment (Jan-Feb lockdown) (CBLP)
£15,000 or under	£1,334	£467	£667	£2001	£4000
£15,001 to £50,999	£2,000	£700	£1000	£3000	£6000
£51,000 or over	£3,000	£1,050	£1500	£4500	£9000

You only need to apply once for all LRSG schemes in place. We will automatically calculate and pay all appropriate business support grants, including the CBLP, based on your successful LRSG application, you do not need to submit another application form.

You must inform us if your circumstances have changed since submitting your original application, for instance if your business has permanently closed or you have reached state-aid limits.

Local Restrictions Support Grant application form

Christmas Support Payments (CSP) for wet-led pubs – please ensure you have submitted an LRSG application, there is no need to apply again if you have already submitted an application form. We will contact you for a further declaration on being a wet-led pub and make the appropriate one-off payment for the Christmas period.

Additional Restrictions Grant

The Government has also allocated some funding to Local Authorities to pay out under an Additional Restrictions Grant. You only need to apply once to this scheme, successful applications will receive the appropriate funding to cover all lockdown periods..

This grant is to help those businesses which – while not legally forced to close – are severely impacted by the restrictions put in place to control the spread of Covid-19. The Government has stated that this scheme should be focused on the following business groups, however since this is a discretionary scheme it will not be wholly restricted to these groups and any SME business that can demonstrate that it has been severely affected will potentially be eligible.

businesses which supply the retail, hospitality, and leisure sectors
businesses in the events sector
businesses outside the business rates system, which are effectively forced to close – for example market traders

The Government has also advised that Local Authorities may want to take into account:

the level of fixed costs faced by the business in question
the number of employees
whether they are unable to trade online
the consequent scale of coronavirus losses

Full East Suffolk Additional Restrictions Grant guidance

All businesses must meet the following criteria to be eligible for a grant:

Businesses must have been trading on the day before national lockdown restrictions came into force
Businesses must be able to demonstrate that they will experience a fall in income of greater than 30% of their usual expected income at this time of year due to Covid-19 restriction measures. The Council will ask the business to give a written statement of the impact on its financial position of the restrictions. The business should include a description of what goods or services it offers and therefore what the impact of Covid-19 has been.

Businesses eligible for the ARG scheme will be as defined in Groups A to E, but we urge all business owners to read the full grant guidance before applying for the grant:

	Business type	Grant amount
A	Businesses in shared spaces (businesses that do not currently pay their own business rates but occupy a unit or room in a larger business space)	£500, £1,334, £2,000, or £3,000
B	Market traders	£350
C	Bed and breakfast businesses	£700
D	Businesses that have been severely impacted by Covid-19 restrictions occupying premises on the local rating list	£1,334, £2,000, or £3,000
E	Other businesses that have been severely impacted by Covid-19 restrictions	Home based businesses £500 Mobile businesses £350 Other businesses which fall into this category to be determined by panel

Additional Restrictions Grant application form

The ARG scheme applies to the November lockdown period and has now been extended to cover the Tier 4 restrictions period from 26 December and the national lockdown period from 5 January onwards – there is no need to apply again, automatic pro-rata payments will be made to cover all eligible periods.

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