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Business Support Grants for Bedford Borough businesses
As Bedford Borough has entered Tier Three – Very High Alert Level today (Saturday 19 December), businesses that are required to close will be receiving a business support grant.
These grants are set and funded by the Government at a national level and administered by the local council.
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New Recovery and Resilience grants of up to £50,000 available to South East Midlands businesses
New match funding is available for businesses to invest in new technologies, plant equipment, machinery or premises growth, helping businesses create employment opportunities.
The £1.44million of funding will support businesses in the South East Midlands looking for ways to recover from the economic impact of lockdown and strengthen business performance through capital funding.
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Central Bedfordshire Council: applications open for new business grant scheme
Online applications are now open for the new discretionary business support scheme (the Additional Restrictions Grant) aimed to support local businesses unable to access previous funding.
This scheme is to support businesses forced to close but who do not have a business rates reference number as they pay rates via their landlord or businesses which, while not legally forced to close, are severely impacted by the restrictions put in place to control the spread of COVID-19.
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Bedford Borough businesses awarded £56million in COVID-19 support
Bedford Borough Council has released figures that show that it has awarded £56million of support to local businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and restrictions.
This includes £29.5million in cash grants and £26.5million in relief from paying business rates, provided by the Government to support local businesses during the pandemic and administered by the Council.
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Community Grant programme available for local training and employment schemes
To help support the community during this time, local organisations can apply for up to £20,000 grant funding to help people to get into work.
The Community Grant programme, re-opens for funding applications today (17 August 2020). The programme has already awarded over £600,000, which is supporting 666 people to date.
The programme is for voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE) to deliver bespoke projects that help currently unemployed individuals in the hardest to reach communities to take up training or get back into work.
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More Bedford Borough businesses eligible for support during Coronavirus
Bedford Borough Council is urging any businesses that may be eligible for support through a discretionary business support grant to get in touch by Friday 28 August.
The Government has allocated £1.6 million to Bedford Borough Council for the discretionary grants scheme.
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Lidlington business owner asked council to consider home-based businesses when allocating funding
At a special (remote) meeting of Central Bedfordshire Council’s Executive (5 June 20200, Lidlington business owner, Miranda Smythe, asked the Executive to consider home-based businesses when allocating funds from the new Small Business Discretionary Grant scheme.
The new, Government-funded scheme, is aimed to help those small businesses, badly hit by the pandemic which were not covered by the Business Support Grant Scheme or other financial support.
Ms Smythe, who runs a learning and development consultancy, said that she recognised that the Council had to make some tough decisions with limited funding. But she asked them to factor in a group of businesses that she said had been “explicitly excluded” from all other forms of government support
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Bedfordshire’s businesses urged to claim support grants
As part of the government’s coronavirus business support package, the UK government has distributed £12.3 billion to local authorities in England.
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