Do you need business support or advice?

Business advice and support grants are available through a new grant scheme to help local businesses recover and move forward following the pandemic.

Grants of up to £10,000 are available to businesses based in North Herts, for specific and general business advice provided by Hertfordshire Growth Hub.

Jo Dufficy, Service Director for Customers, explained: “This is the latest grant scheme to become available to businesses in the district, to aid their recovery adapting and moving ahead following Covid restrictions and the general downturn.

“We are pleased to work with Hertfordshire Growth Hub on this scheme, which can provide a range of business packages. We continue to urge local businesses to come forward and see what grant scheme may help them.”

Hertfordshire Growth Hub is the county’s flagship business support provider, powered by Hertfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP).

Other support schemes available:

Covid Additional Relief Fund (CARF) – maximum of 25% relief for qualifying rate paying businesses for the current financial year 2021-22, criteria applies.

New premises grants – up to £5,000 to reimburse costs of preparing and moving into a new commercial premise within North Herts (the move must have taken place after 1 April 2021, and the costs incurred/invoice date after 1 July 2021).

Omicron hospitality and leisure grants – one-off payment of either £2,667, £4,000 or £6,000 (dependant on rateable value) for businesses which offer in-person services within a fixed business rate-paying premises.

Additional restrictions grants (ARG) – similar to previous ARG schemes, business rate-payers that don’t qualify for the Omicron hospitality and leisure grants can apply for discretionary grants. If successful grants will be awarded by the end of March. 

For more information and to apply for any of the business support schemes, please visit www.north-herts.gov.uk/businessgrants