Sponsoring Agency: Harlow Council
Type of Fund: Grant
Deadline Available: Available
Deadline Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/04/2021
Size of the Fund: Less than USD $50,000
Essex County Council has provided Harlow Council with funding to support businesses that have not been included in the existing national and local coronavirus financial support schemes or where income, including financial support, has been unable to cover business costs.
Funding Information
The total of all Additional Business Support funding to an eligible business shall not be more than £5,000.
The amounts awarded to Eligible Businesses will be based on the size of their business as detailed above, not exceeding the following thresholds:
• Eligible Micro businesses (0-4 employees) – £1,500
• Eligible Micro businesses (5-9 employees) – £3,000
• Eligible Small businesses (10-49 employees) – £4,000
• Eligible Medium businesses (50-249 employees) – £5,000
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for Additional Business Support, your business must:
• have been trading on 1 January 2020, before the start of the pandemic
• have been adversely affected by the pandemic (for example, reductions to customer or sale numbers and reduction in cash flow so that meeting day to day working capital requirements has become unaffordable and unsustainable)
• be located within Harlow in Essex (no requirement to be occupying rateable premises)
• have been excluded from accessing other coronavirus financial support schemes or income, including financial support has been unable to cover fixed costs
The applicant’s business must fall into at least one of the categories below to be eligible to receive Additional Business Support:
• A business which forms part of the direct supply chain for hospitality, leisure or accommodation businesses including tourism
• A business which supplies non-essential retail
• A business which forms part of the direct supply chain for aviation businesses
• A business which directly organises, facilitates or performs at organised events
• A business which supplies to organised events
• A business that is not within rating list, that has been forced to close either due to mandatory restrictions or due to the temporary closure of their host premises (including non-essential market traders)
• A business which can demonstrate a heavy reliance on the ability for people to travel
• Any business which relies on close physical contact (e.g. personal care workers, hair and beauty, driving instructors, taxi drivers etc.)
• Newly self-employed who set up a business after 6th April 2019, who have not been able to receive support as part of the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS)
• Limited company directors who are not located in rateable premises and who cannot furlough themselves and continue to work to save their business
More information at: https://www.harlow.gov.uk/coronavirus/businesses
