Sponsoring Agency: Northumberland County 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
Applications are open for the Northumberland County Council's Restart Grant to support businesses in the non-essential retail, hospitality, leisure, personal care and accommodation sectors with a one-off payment, to help them reopen safely as COVID-19 restrictions are lifted.
Funding Information
The grant will be a one-off payment and calculated based on the rateable value of the qualifying business property, as below.
There are two strands to the Restart Grant as follows:
Strand One – non-essential retail properties
• Rateable value and Grant
o £15,000 or under: £2,667.00
o £15,001 – £50,999: £4,000.00
o £51,000 or over: £6,000.00
Strand Two – hospitality, accommodation, leisure, personal care and gym businesses
• Rateable value and Grant
o £15,000 or under: £8,000.00
o £15,001 – £50,999: £12,000.00
o £51,000 or over: £18,000.00
Eligibility Criteria
To qualify for a grant, businesses must satisfy all of the following criteria:
• Have a property within Northumberland with a qualifying rateable value.
• Have been trading on 1 April 2021.
• Be classed as non-essential retail, hospitality, accommodation, leisure, personal care or a gym business. (Annex C of the Government’s Restart Grant guidance gives a more indicative list of businesses that fall into scope of the Restart Scheme. You can read this at the link below.)
• Offer in person services where the main service and activity takes place in a fixed rate paying premises.
• Not be in administration, insolvent or have a striking-off notice against them.
• Not breach subsidy rules if they were to receive a grant payment under this scheme.
More information at: https://www.northumberland.gov.uk/coronavirus/Support-for-Businesses-coronavirus/COVID-19-business-support-grants.aspx#six
