[steve rix]

Anyone else getting one of these?
We are due £10,000.00 on 24th April from the local District Council as we get small business rate relief. In fact our rate bill is zero.
Although we have lost commercial business we are continuing to work but but half our staff on furlough.
This should see us through the worst of it

[jk999]

Is that a definite your getting it

[Arnold Palmer]

Anyone else getting one of these?
We are due £10,000.00 on 24th April from the local District Council as we get small business rate relief. In fact our rate bill is zero.
Although we have lost commercial business we are continuing to work but but half our staff on furlough.
This should see us through the worst of it

I've put my application in. Unfortunately it's paid by Aberdeenshire council so will most likely be paid in time for Christmas 2030.

[Richard iSparkle]

i should be getting the same

i have rates relief too. the only issue the number on the rates paperwork is different from the number on my lease..

i told them this and asked them to amend it about a month before this all kicked off...  the issue now seems to be holding everything up

i guess they need to be very careful with people putting in fraudulent claims for it

[DrewHastings]

We're getting it as well. Originally we were told they would contact us, and then they brought out a form to fill in.

Should've been paid out last week, but my landlord decided not to update council when we moved in, so its still in the old peoples name. Obviously this creates an issue with the council. I've emailed council my lease as proof, so now just waiting on them to finally get around to reading it.

[deeege]

Who was it that was on yesterday saying they were getting the £10k but really didn’t need or want it?

If it’s now an application form/process then there will be no reason for them to go through that process now will there?

[G Griffin]

Who was it that was on yesterday saying they were getting the £10k but really didn’t need or want it?

If it’s now an application form/process then there will be no reason for them to go through that process now will there?

I know, I know...……...but I don't want to cause any more upset .
My memory is a curse sometimes.

[KS Cleaning]

Who was it that was on yesterday saying they were getting the £10k but really didn’t need or want it?

If it’s now an application form/process then there will be no reason for them to go through that process now will there?

Think it was a wee birdy called 8 weekly. Somehow I can’t see him throwing his form in the 🗑

[NWH]

Some 25000 grants have been paid already in Sussex,Wealden Council.

[deeege]

Who was it that was on yesterday saying they were getting the £10k but really didn’t need or want it?

If it’s now an application form/process then there will be no reason for them to go through that process now will there?

Think it was a wee birdy called 8 weekly. Somehow I can’t see him throwing his form in the 🗑

I don’t realise that was 8 weekly’s new account.

[STEVE-UK]

We have a couple of units on farms, we have not been contacted as yet regarding the grant

Could someone post a contact email address for Gov grant queries please

[Arnold Palmer]

We have a couple of units on farms, we have not been contacted as yet regarding the grant

Could someone post a contact email address for Gov grant queries please

You need to apply through your local council. Heres mine:

https://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/media/25154/coronavirus-fund_application-form-business-support.pdf

Won't be much use to you.

[STEVE-UK]

cheers Soapy, will try our local council

[Arnold Palmer]

Who was it that was on yesterday saying they were getting the £10k but really didn’t need or want it?

If it’s now an application form/process then there will be no reason for them to go through that process now will there?

Think it was a wee birdy called 8 weekly. Somehow I can’t see him throwing his form in the 🗑

I don’t realise that was 8 weekly’s new account.

Not sure it is.

[Richard iSparkle]

Just to add some positivity here..

I've emailed in this morning as my grant hasn't come through yet and i was worried there might be a problem with it.

After playing email tennis all morning they have sorted the problem with my application (ive moved premises in the last year and had used my old rates account number it appears)

The lady at Chester council was brilliant. She kept asking for account numbers and application numbers and i kept having to say i don't have them (as I'm not in the office but working from home)

she tracked it all down, edited the application, and has processed it for payment in the next week.

absolute legend.

i hope some of you others get as much help with you applications too.

[S.A.J]

We can’t claim  for our unit😢 as not on the rates register! Council have said they are trying to help companies like us that rent units but are not registered

What hurts is a client of mine rents a office with a desk in and he’s just got 10k and spent half of it on a hot tub!

[Mike Burd]

Who was it that was on yesterday saying they were getting the £10k but really didn’t need or want it?

If it’s now an application form/process then there will be no reason for them to go through that process now will there?

I did say I don’t need it as we’ve worked through, but with time lost through staff self isolating, including me for 7 days, we are actually about £10k down. But it’s not needed.

 We’ve lost all our commercial except a funeral director. It’s only a tiny proportion of our work though. With some changes, domestic’s has carried on as before.

I have given thought to the £10k though. My thought is to throw it straight back into the local economy through hiring a local firm to deliver £10k in leaflets and try to fill another van. Win, win,win.  I certainly wouldn’t ever use it in a less than ethical way.

[Richard iSparkle]

i'm wary to spend mine when i get it. we just dont know how long this is going on for and what will happen over the medium term.

i'll most likely keep mine as a fund to keep the business going if it needs it and to keep my staff on.

all being well it won't be spent and i can use it for investing in growth, or cutting my expences at the end of this. however that might play out

R

[Dave Willis]

Why wouldn’t you spend it? Whatever you spend it on you’ll be helping the economy.
I might help the tourism industry, haven’t decided yet.

[deeege]

Are these grants treated as income, so subject to corporation tax?