Mon 15 Mar 21
The purpose of this fund is to provide financial support to Bed & Breakfasts, Guesthouses and other Small Serviced Accommodation businesses who have not been able to access support through other schemes.
A grant of £2,000, payable every 4 weeks, will be available to eligible businesses, not on Non Domestic rates but paying council tax. These payments will be 4 weekly, backdated to the start of January 2021, to cover the Level 4 restrictions which apply from 26th Dec 2020 lockdown period for the duration of level 4 restrictions, and no later than 31 March 2021. This grant is not retrospectively backdated to 2nd November 2020.
If you are successful and receive the grant you can continue to accept key workers, according to Scottish Government guidance.
To complete this form you will need:
You will be asked to upload:
Have digital copies of these available before you start to complete the form - you cannot save and come back.
Advice on uploads:
You can scan your documents or you can take a photo of them with your camera, phone or tablet. You can then upload these pictures to the form when requested. If you use a phone or tablet to take the pictures and then use your phone or tablet to complete the form you can upload the pictures directly from your device. If you'd rather complete the form on a computer, make sure you have the pictures on your computer.
Files can be a maximum size of 5MB each.
When uploading choose your file on your device and submit it. Then wait for the file to appear on the form like the image below - the file is showing as "summary.jpg".
This can take a few seconds. Retrying too quickly can lead to a security warning.
What happens next
We will be paying initial grants for valid and fully completed application at the end of March. We will be in touch with you when we have processed your application, or if we need further details.
Please do not contact us about your application unless you have not heard from us by April. However, if you have any enquiries around applying for this grant, you can email us at [email protected] Please quote Council Tax - Business Support in the email subject.