The Government has provided Local Authorities with funding to operate a number of grant schemes to provide support to businesses
over the last year.
As of 31 March 2021, all schemes introduced prior to 16 February 2021 have now closed with immediate effect and no further
applications can be accepted in accordance with Governments instructions.
The remaining grant available is detailed below, followed with details of the new ‘Restart Grant’ that has been introduced
with effect from 1 April 2021. This is to assist and support those businesses that have been mandated to close, in re-opening,
once national restrictions have been lifted.
Local Restrictions Support Grants (for business that are closed during lockdown)
This grant is payable for the period where full National Restrictions have been in place between 16 February 2021 and 31 March 2021.
Eligibility – All businesses that are ratepayers and which were instructed to close following Government instruction. This includes
non-essential retail, leisure, personal care, sports facilities and hospitality businesses.
Period 16 February 2021 to 31 March 2021:
Rateable value less than £15,001 – £2,096
Rateable value £15,001 – £50,999 – £3,143
Rateable value greater than £50,999 – £4,714
If you wish to make an application for this scheme, please use the follow link:
Please note the last day that applications can be accepted is 31 May 2021.
RESTART GRANT
On 3 March 2021, Government announced the introduction of grant support for non-essential retail, hospitality, accommodation,
leisure, personal care and gym businesses in England.
See announcement: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/budget-2021-sets-path-for-recovery
This support will take the form of a one-off grant funding scheme in Financial Year 2021-2022.
The scheme is called the Restart Grant (RG) and is administered by business rates billing authorities in England.
Under the Restart Grant scheme, Local Authorities will receive funding to be allocated in one-off grants to businesses.
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 allocated to hospitality, accommodation, leisure, personal care and gym business premises, which may open later under plans
set out in the roadmap and will be more impacted by restrictions when they do reopen. The Restart Grant scheme supports businesses
that are predominantly reliant on delivering in-person services for the general public in the aforementioned sectors.
How much funding will be provided to businesses?
The Restart Grant scheme is for businesses occupying properties on the rating list only and is a one-off grant.
The Restart Grant will support non-essential retail premises with one-off grants of up to £6,000 in Strand One of the Restart Grant.
The following thresholds apply for these businesses:
Businesses occupying hereditaments appearing on the local rating list with a rateable value of exactly £15,000 or under on 1 April 2021
will receive a payment of £2,667.
Businesses occupying hereditaments appearing on the local rating list with a rateable value over £15,000 and less than £51,000 on 1 April
2021 will receive a payment of £4,000.
Businesses occupying hereditaments appearing on the local rating list with a rateable value of exactly £51,000 or over on 1 April 2021
will receive a payment of £6,000.
The Restart Grant will also support hospitality, accommodation, leisure, personal care and gym business premises with one-off grants of up to £18,000 in Strand Two of the Restart Grant.
The following thresholds apply for these businesses: a. business occupying hereditaments appearing on the local rating list with a rateable value of exactly £15,000 or under on 1 April 2021 will receive
a payment of £8,000.
Businesses occupying hereditaments appearing on the local rating list with a rateable value over £15,000 and less than £51,000 on
1 April 2021 will receive a payment of £12,000.
Businesses occupying hereditaments appearing on the local rating list with a rateable value of exactly £51,000 or over on 1 April 2021
will receive a payment of £18,000.
If you wish to make an application for either of these Restart Grant Strands, then use the below link whilst ensuring you select
the correct Restart Grant Strand that applies to you.
PLEASE NOTE you can only claim ONE of the restart grant strands, dependant on your circumstances, and any incorrect strand
applications received will simply be declined whereupon you will then be required to submit a further correctly stranded application.
Please note the last day that applications can be accepted is 30 June 2021.
Businesses excluded from grants
any business which has exceeded the permitted state aid threshold
any business which is in administration or is insolvent
any business which has been struck off the Companies House registe
any business that does not have a business rate account with Spelthorne Borough Council
any business which was established after the introduction of the local restrictions
State Aid
LRSG (Closed) Addendum counts towards the total de minimis state aid you are allowed to get over a 3-year period – €200,000.
If you have reached the de minimis threshold, you may still be eligible for funding under the “COVID-19 Temporary Framework”. The limit
for this framework is €800,000.
you will not exceed the relevant State aid threshold
you were not an ‘undertaking in difficulty’ on 31 December 2019 (this applies to the temporary framework only)
The undertaking in difficulty test does not apply to small and micro undertakings (less than 50 employees and less than €10 million
of annual turnover or annual balance sheet), unless any of the following apply:
the business is already in insolvency proceedings
the business has received rescue aid that has not been repaid
the business is subject to a restructuring plan under state aid rules
You must notify Spelthorne if your situation changes and you no longer meet the eligibility criteria.
The application process
Businesses applying will be expected to sign a declaration stating that they are not committing any fraud and that they are fully
complying with any State Aid limits, as well as giving the Spelthorne Borough Council permission to make pre-payment checks using
specialist Government software and this may include a check using Experian provided software to validate bank details.
Spelthorne Borough Council will undertake due diligence checks to ensure the accuracy of the information provided on the application
and ensure the correct liable business to validate claims.
The application form
The application forms will be available online. No paper copies will be available. This electronic form including the
declaration must be fully completed with all the required evidence to be considered for a grant.
Payments of Grant
Payment of the grant will be to the business bank account, and subject to verification checks using Experian software provided by
Central Government and the provision of bank statements.
Managing the risk of fraud
Spelthorne Borough Council will not accept deliberate manipulation or fraud – and any business caught falsifying their records to
gain grant money may face prosecution and any funding issued will be subject to claw back, together with any grants paid in error.
All information is subject to internal and external audit checks.
Sharing information
By applying for any grant, all applicants give authority to Spelthorne Borough Council to share data for efficient system administration
and to protect the Public Purse, subject to the General Data Protection Regulations. This will include sharing data with Surrey County
Council and other Local Authorities and Central Government. In addition, you should be aware that you may be contacted for research
purposes by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and that your data will be shared with the Department for
Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
Other information
Grant income received by a business is taxable, therefore funding paid under the Spelthorne Borough Council regarding any Grant
should be treated as income and may be subject to tax.
The Council does not accept any liability for any issues that may arise for businesses because of applying for, receiving, or not
receiving grant payments under this scheme.