If you should be eligible for one of the grant funds schemes, you will be contacted by one of our team from Harborough District Council. However we will never ask you to confirm any of your business or personal bank details.

We will only ever contact you via telephone to explain the process of the grants to you, We will not send any links to applications via email.

For more information as to how to protect yourself from coronavirus scams, find out more below

The Federation of Small Businesses is running a number of webinars, posting the latest regional updates and giving businesses the opportunity in online format, to keep businesses connected, collaborating and supporting one another at a time where change is on the doorstep.

Find out how you can keep informed and connected via the link below

A Top-up for the Small business Grant Funds has been announced to accommodate certain small businesses previously outside the scope of the local business grant funds scheme.

As of 27 April, over £7.5 billion has been paid out to over 614,000 businesses via the Small Business Grand Fund and the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund Schemes.
This is over 61% of the grant funding allocated to local authorities.

This additional fund is aimed at small businesses with ongoing fixed property-related costs.

Local authorities will prioritise businesses in shared spaces, regular market traders, small charity properties that would meet the criteria for Small Business Rates Relief, and bed and breakfasts that pay council tax rather than business rates.

But local authorities may choose to make payments to other businesses based on local economic need.

The allocation of funding will be at the discretion of local authorities, who will soon be given further guidance on this.