The Manchester City Council has announced a one-off Restart Grant to support some business sectors including non-essential retail, hospitality, accommodation, leisure, personal care and gym businesses in England.
Sponsoring Agency: Manchester City Council
Type of Fund: Grant
Deadline Available: Available
Deadline Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 06/30/2021
Size of the Fund: Less than USD $50,000
The Manchester City Council has announced a one-off Restart Grant to support some business sectors including non-essential retail, hospitality, accommodation, leisure, personal care and gym businesses in England.
The Restart Grant scheme supports businesses that are predominantly reliant on delivering in-person goods or services to the general public.
Funding Information
• Grants of up to £6,000 will be paid to non-essential retail business premises, to help them reopen safely.
• Grants of up to £18,000 will be paid to hospitality, accommodation, leisure, personal care and gym business premises, to help them reopen safely.
Eligible Sectors
• Non-essential retail: a business that is open to the public and is used mainly or wholly for the purposes of retail sale or hire of goods or services, where the primary purpose of products or services provided are not necessary to the health and well-being of the public.
• Hospitality: a business whose main function is to provide a venue for the consumption and sale of food and drink
• Leisure: a business that provides opportunities, experiences and facilities, in particular for culture, recreation, entertainment, celebratory events, days and nights out, betting and gaming
• Accommodation: a business whose main lodging provision is used for holiday, travel and other purposes.
• Gym and Sport: a commercial establishment where physical exercise or training is conducted on an individual basis or group basis, using exercise equipment or open floor space with or without instruction, or where individual and group sporting, athletic and physical activities are participated in competitively or recreationally.
• Personal care: a business which provides a service, treatment or activity for the purposes of personal beauty, hair, grooming, body care and aesthetics, and wellbeing
Eligibility Criteria
The eligibility criteria and payment amounts vary depending on your business sector. Eligible businesses will be paid:
• a one-off grant of up to £6,000 per property in the non-essential retail sector
• a one-off grant of up to £18,000 per property in the hospitality, accommodation, leisure, personal care and gym sectors
Grants will be available from 1 April 2021.
More information at: https://secure.manchester.gov.uk/info/500362/covid-19/8165/restart_grant_scheme
Eligible Countries:
United States
