New Coronavirus advice for businesses in Scotland
Coronavirus advice for businesses in Scotland
Further funding measures have been identified as being potentially available, although the full details are still to be revealed to enable us to provide further information.
If you want to enquire further at this point or create an application, please follow the links below. All applications must be personally completed through your local authority website.
Pivotal Enterprise Resilience Fund
What does this involve?
This grant is for businesses that can play a critical role in supporting Scotland’s recovery but need some immediate support. It might be to get back up and running or to maintain or diversify your current operations.
If you have the potential to continue trading and supporting employment but have an immediate cash flow challenge, then this grant is for you.
Please read strict eligibility criteria closely before considering further.
Creative or Tourism and Hospitality Enterprises Hardship Fund
What does this involve?
This fund is designed for companies that are ineligible for other COVID-19 grant support or are not yet in receipt of the funds they need to survive.
Please read strict eligibility criteria closely before considering further.
Newly Self-Employed Hardship Fund
What does this involve?
You need to apply in your Local Authority area. You may only apply to this fund once.
You will be asked to provide documentary evidence of your status and eligibility for the grant. Local authorities will then determine whether you meet the criteria, which has been set by the Scottish Government.
You will need to provide:
documentation to show you had an active business prior to COVID-19, such as your VAT registration, bank account statements showing revenue and outgoings linked to self-employment, marketing materials, etc. A full list is provided with the application form.
self-declaration that you are currently experiencing hardship
evidence of being resident in the local authority area of application
Successful applicants will receive a one-off payment of £2,000.
Please read strict eligibility criteria closely before considering further, as to qualify self employment must have begun after 06/04/2019 and strictly no self employed income (however small) could have been declared on your 2018/19 tax return.
