Liverpool City Council is administering the “Small business grant fund” and the “Retail, hospitality and leisure grant” for businesses that are part of the wider government support response to the coronavirus outbreak.
As we have seen, the Government is doing what it can to support businesses and employees with a furloughing scheme, loans, deferment of tax payments, business rate holidays and protection from landlords and more to come. That will help alleviate concerns to an extent, but with everyone now advised to stay at home & work from home, consumer demand and confidence is at a very low ebb for some businesses and non-existent for others.
Brothers Will and John Walne from the Striped Pig Company are taking their Garstang-based outside catering outfit “inside” in a move to not only help serve the local community.
Downtown CEO Frank McKenna, chats to Director of The Northern Powerhouse Partnership, Henri Murison in the #DowntownDen.
Chairman of Downton in Business Birmingham Prof. Paul Cadman invited Jamil Shabir from Bootcamp Media, Christina Wadlow from Western Union, Prof. Nassim Belbaly from BCU and Sarah Grace from Kate&Co into the Downtown Den to discuss all things Brummie Business.
The Chancellor has this evening announced a financial support package which is similar in some respects to the “furloughing” measures announced earlier this week – the Coronavirus Self-Employment Income Support Scheme.
