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Restrictions Business Fund

Published: 14/12/2020

Welsh Government has launched the Restrictions Business Fund this week to support businesses that have been directly impacted by the additional restrictions put in place on 4 December.

The first phase will be for automatic payments to be made to hospitality businesses that successfully applied for the firebreak lockdown grant in October/November without the need for a further grant application.

Flintshire County Council has been working through the latest Welsh Government guidance to ensure automatic grant payments are made to these priority groups before the Christmas break.

This week hospitality businesses occupying premises with a rateable value of up to £51,000, and who received the recent firebreak lockdown grant will receive an automatic payment of £3,000 or £5,000. 

Flintshire County Council’s Leader, Councillor Ian Roberts, said: 

“We understand the impacts on businesses at this difficult time, especially for those who operate in the hospitality sector. The Council is playing its part in helping to administer the financial support package.

“It has been a significant undertaking but I am really pleased to announce that 154 hospitality businesses had automatically been awarded their grant payments by 11 December with awards totalling £550,000. Payments are likely to reach bank accounts by no later than Thursday 17 December.”

An application based grant scheme will ‘open up’ shortly for other hospitality, tourism and leisure businesses and their supply chains and retail businesses that can evidence  greater than 40% reduction in turnover as a direct result of new restrictions. 

Further information will be available at www.flintshire.gov.uk/businessrates as other phases of the scheme go live. Businesses should check the website for further announcements.