Salesforce is partnering with Enterprise Nation to offer eligible small businesses the opportunity to receive a £5,000 grant to help them through the COVID-19 outbreak. To be eligible to apply, companies must: be registered at Companies House been established for at least 12 months have not received any other cash grant during 2020 in relation to COVID-19 from any Government be based in the UK with a British bank account have between 2 to 50...
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The Welsh Government have updated their guidance on the closure of businesses and premises in Wales as some of the restrictions are now being eased. The guidance includes: businesses and premises that must remain closed work carried out in people’s homes length of closure compliance financial support business support How do I get advice about what I can and can’t do? The Welsh Government has issued guidance to accompany the regulations and these answers to...
HMRC publishes the employer bulletin 6 times a year, giving employers and agents the latest information on topics and issues that may affect them. The employer bulletin is only available online. You can download and read the employer bulletin on screen or print it off. You can register for HMRC’s employer email alert service to receive emails from HMRC which tell you when the latest issue is available. For further information and to download the...
What you and businesses can and cannot do during the outbreak and what happens if you break these new laws. There are four main things: certain businesses are not allowed to be open people have to stay local and not be indoors with anyone who is not a member of their household unless they have a good reason rules have been made about keeping people 2 metres apart when they do go out (known as...
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, has up to £800,000 from the Plastics Research and Innovation Fund, to invest in business projects that seek to better understand the behaviour of customers and users and use that understanding to create innovative design concepts. Projects must develop design concepts that do not rely on single-use plastic using customer and user research. They could look at redesign of existing goods, services or business models or design...
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) will close on 31 October 2020 and the UK Government has updated their guidance. What you need to do from July: start your flexible furloughing of employees from 1 July onwards, you can decide the hours and shift patterns they work to suit the needs of your business – you’ll pay their wages for the time they’re in work and can apply for a job retention scheme grant to...
Retailers will be able to resume trading if they can take all reasonable measures to comply with the physical distancing duty in Welsh law to reduce the spread of coronavirus and protect shop workers and shoppers. The changes are part of a comprehensive package of measures being introduced step by step every Monday over the next three weeks. They follow the fourth statutory review of the coronavirus regulations by Welsh Ministers, using the latest scientific...
The Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) currently allows you to claim a taxable grant worth 80% of your average monthly trading profits, paid out in a single instalment covering 3 months’ worth of profits, and capped at £7,500 in total. If you’re eligible you must make your claim for the first grant on or before 13 July 2020. This scheme is being extended, click here to find out more about the extension to the scheme...
The Welsh Government has introduced Test, Trace, Protect to limit the spread of infection, trace the virus and protect communities. Testing Critical Workers in particular is key to the success of this approach and for business continuity to enable critical workers to return to work quickly and safely. Welsh Government have created campaign assets to help you communicate this message to your employees. In this toolkit you will find: printable and digital posters social assets...
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) will support excellent proposals of up to 18 months duration which meet at least one of the following: new research or innovation with a clear impact pathway that has the potential (within the period of the award) to deliver a significant contribution to the understanding of, and response to, the Covid-19 pandemic and its impacts supports the manufacture and/or wide scale adoption of an intervention with significant potential gathers critical...