| The application process for all business grants via Cotswold District Council has now reopened with individuals encouraged to check their eligibility and apply through the Council website. |
| A series of different business grants have been made available by the Government with local businesses applying to their local council to access the funding where they are eligible.
Since the pandemic started, Cotswold District Council has distributed 2,154 grants totalling more than £22m in vital funding to local businesses. Following the series of changes to tiers before Christmas, many businesses were left confused on what they were entitled to. The Council has simplified the highly complicated grant applications into two simple forms with staff ensuring that once a business applies it is allocated all the grants it is eligible for without business owners having to apply multiple times. Businesses will only need to apply once depending on whether they were closed by national restrictions or severely impacted but allowed to remain open. The application form covers the latest lockdown grants as well as those relating to various previous restrictions in force since November. Business owners that have applied for a grant since November do not need to re-apply by completing another form. Instead, they are being contacted by email from tomorrow and asked to indicate which grants they believe they are entitled to. Their eligibility will then be assessed by the council revenues team. Businesses are urged to make sure they look out for council emails if they had applied since November and put in an application if they have not done so since the November lockdown started. Any business waiting for payment, unsure of the status of their application or wondering whether they should apply for a grant, should see the dedicated web page: |
Business Grant Applications open for January Lockdown as Applications Process is Simplified
