Help and advice for businesses
Support for businesses:
Grants for your business:
- Restart grants
- Expanded retail discount 2021 to 2022
- Additional restrictions grant (February to March 2021) (ARG) (closes 25 April 2021)
- Taxi business support grant - additional restrictions grant - taxi driver (February to March 2021) (closes 25 April 2021)
- Business support package following January 2021 lockdown second payment cycle 16 February 2021 to 31 March 2021 (closes 1 June 2021)
Grant schemes which have now closed:
- Business support package following January 2021 lockdown first payment cycle 5 January 2021 to 15 February 2021 (closed 1 April 2021)
- National lockdown grant from 5 January and Tier 4 grant funding 31 December to 4 January (including: closed lockdown payment - one off top-up grant) (closed 1 April 2021)
- Local restrictions support grant (LRSG-closed) (Tier 3 restrictions payments) (closed 1 April 2021)
- Local restrictions support grant (for businesses that are required to temporarily close under national restrictions 5 November to 2 December) (closed 1 April 2021)
- Local restrictions discretionary support grants (December 2020) (closed 31 March 2021)
- Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council business recovery project fund (closed 28 March 2021)
- Additional restrictions grant (discretionary) (ARG) January 2021
- Taxi business support grant - additional restrictions grant - taxi driver (January 2021)
- Christmas support payment for ‘wet-led’ pubs (closed 28 February 2021)
- Additional restrictions grant (discretionary) (ARG) - scheme (closed 20 January 2021)
- Small business grant and retail, hospitality and leisure grants (scheme ended 28 August 2020)
- Small business discretionary grant - deadline now passed
Support for your business
- Welcome back: support for businesses reopening on 12 April
- Coronavirus - Information to help support your business
- Advice and support for tourism businesses
- Help prevent coronavirus: posters for businesses to print off (Published by Leicestershire County Council)
Food businesses - guidance and advice
- Apply for a pavement licence (outdoor seating)
- Guidance for food businesses (GOV.UK)
- Alcohol and entertainment licences - Permission for pubs and restaurants to operate as takeaways
- Whether registered or not, all food produced, stored or distributed outside of a family setting must be done so in accordance with food hygiene legislation and be safe to eat. Further advice and guidance on food hygiene:
'Love local' click and collect and takeaway directory
Test & Trace
- Prepare your business for the Covid-19 app (GOV.UK)
- Customer logging toolkit (phe.gov.uk) - a toolkit for businesses that collects customer details for Test & Trace
Information and advice
- Licences, registrations and permits - changes to the service
- Coronavirus - Health Protection Regulations - information for businesses - new regulations to ensure that all premises close or remain closed until otherwise directed by the Secretary of State
- Regaining possession of a privately rented property - Changes to the eviction process of tenants
- Guidance for the construction sector (adeptnet.org.uk) - National guidance for the construction sector
Last updated: 14/04/2021 12:22