Information and guidance related to business support, including on business operations, financial support packages, and business rates.
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Official Government information
Grant funding
GOV.UK – Local Authority Discretionary Grants Fund - guidance for local authorities (pdf)
GOV.UK – COVID-19: financial support for businesses (including local authorities)
GOV.UK – guidance on business support grant funding for local authorities, and business support grant funding for businesses
GOV.UK – grant funding schemes for small businesses, and fund guidance for retail, hospitality and leisure, (pdf, March 2020)
GOV.UK – grant funding provided to businesses by local authorities in England
GOV.UK – coronavirus grant funding: local authority payments to small and medium businesses
GOV.UK – check if you can claim a grant through the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme
GOV.UK – apply for the coronavirus Future Fund
Business support
Industrial Strategy – working safely guidance
GOV.UK – guidance to employers and businesses about COVID-19 (including on best practice, social distancing in the workplace, sick pay, cleaning and waste disposal)
GOV.UK – check if you can claim back statutory sick pay paid to employees due to coronavirus
GOV.UK – working safely during coronavirus
GOV.UK – business support finder tool
GOV.UK – coronavirus business support resource centre
GOV.UK – additional government resources to support your business during coronavirus disruptions
GOV.UK – help and support if your business is affected by coronavirus: a free webinar
GOV.UK – £6.1 million funding boost to help high streets and town centres during pandemic
GOV.UK – OPSS coronavirus guidance for business and local authorities
Job retention scheme
GOV.UK – coronavirus job retention scheme: step by step guide for employers
GOV.UK – coronavirus job retention scheme (relevant to local authorities also)
Other
GOV.UK – statistics on coronavirus funding for business
GOV.UK – apprenticeship programme response
GOV.UK – guidance on closing certain businesses and venues
GOV.UK – advice and guidance on fraud and cyber crime
GOV.UK – offer coronavirus support from your business
GOV.UK – COVID-19 roadmap taskforces
Food Standards Agency – reopening and adapting your food business during COVID-19
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) hosts a number of resources for jobseekers and support for employers
Business rates
GOV.UK – 7/2020: coronavirus response: monitoring
GOV.UK – business rates revaluation postponed
MHCLG – updated letter on business rates guidance and coronavirus response (pdf, 2 April 2020)
LGA – Coronavirus: Business rates relief for the hospitality and leisure sector
Other useful information
Health and Safety Executive have created a number of resources: working safely through the coronavirus outbreak (pdf, 2020), talking with your workers about preventing coronavirus (pdf, 2020) and managing risks and risk assessments at work
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial strategy (BEIS) are hosting free webinars addressing the challenges in different types of workplaces
Business in the Community is running a National Business Response Network helping frontline organisations across the UK, including local councils, respond to the needs of communities affected by COVID-19.
CIPFA/LASAAC – statement on local authority accounting requirements
British Chambers of Commerce – coronavirus business impact tracker
National Cyber Security Centre – Advisory COVID-19 exploited by malicious cyber actors
