Business grants
Additional funding for businesses
The government recently provided additional funding schemes to help businesses impacted by COVID-19 and the Omicron variant in particular.
Omicron Hospitality and Leisure Grant (OHLG)
Eligible businesses trading on 30 December 2021 could claim up to £6,000 as a one off payment to compensate for the loss of trade as a result of the Omicron variant. The deadline for claiming funding under this scheme was 18 March 2022. Applications are now closed.
Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG)
The additional funding has now been distributed as a top up to hundreds of small businesses that already qualified under this scheme, bringing the total ARG funding paid out to over £8.5m.
Covid Additional Restrictions Fund (CARF)
This fund will be distributed to eligible businesses as a relief on 2021/22 business rate bills, but as per government guidelines this will not include businesses that already receive, or are eligible for Expanded Retail Relief on their business rate bills, or where the business is not trading.
Whilst we fully understand businesses are in urgent need of this additional financial assistance, this scheme requires us to set up additional local discretionary criteria for eligibility which means that it needs to go through formal decision making processes. Once this discretionary scheme has been agreed, we will work as quickly as we can to implement it. Please check back for further information.
Grants paid
The table below details the number of businesses that received funding and the value of funding disbursed. The different schemes are listed in order of when they were launched, starting with the most recent.
Grant | No. of businesses paid a grant | Total paid out |
---|---|---|
Omicron Hospitality and Leisure Grant |
443 |
£1,811,372 |
LRSG (Closed) Addendum - second payment cycle (16 February to 31 March) |
53 |
£155,000 |
Restart Grant 1 |
429 |
£1,549,000 |
Restart Grant 2 |
858 |
£9,602,000 |
Closed Business January Lockdown Support Package |
1,236 |
£13,799,000 |
LRSG (Closed) Addendum - Tier 4 |
1,039 |
£1,086,000 |
Christmas Support Payments for wet-led pubs |
51 |
£51,000 |
LRSG (Closed) |
243 |
£99,000 |
LRSG (Sector) |
1 |
£3,000 |
LRSG (Open) |
225 |
£381,000 |
Additional Restrictions Grant |
1,638 |
£8,550,000 |
Local Restrictions Support Grant (Closed) - Addendum November 2020 |
1,227 |
£2,274,000 |
Discretionary Business Fund Grant |
212 |
£2,120,000 |
Retail, Hospitality & Leisure Grant (£10,000) |
1,048 |
£2,100,000 |
Retail, Hospitality & Leisure Grant (£25,000) |
210 |
£26,200,000 |
Small Business Grant |
1,274 |
£12,740,000 |
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Updated: 04 April 2022
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