FURTHER Government grants are available to help businesses in Harborough district bounce back from the pandemic.
The four new Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG) schemes will act as a catalyst to boost recovery, growth, and innovation for local businesses, with or without commercial premises.
The grants, which will be distributed by Harborough District Council (HDC), will continue to support business sectors severely impacted by the extended coronavirus restrictions, and encourage businesses to look to the future, in an innovative, greener, and more digitally connected manner.
Three of the schemes will focus on supporting businesses to either: Go Digital – supporting digital technology solutions to improve performance and encourage wider, online access to customers.
Go Green – helping businesses reduce their carbon footprints, increase energy efficiency and reduce fixed costs.
Innovation – encouraging the adoption of sustainable and innovative solutions, by reviewing product or service delivery to improve operations or service provision.
And the fourth element is: Business Survival – providing ‘funding of last resort’ to support businesses still severely impacted by the extended restrictions and unable to get support elsewhere.
HDC leader Phil King said: “These grants will help boost recovery, growth and innovation as well as enable businesses to become greener and more digitally connected. These grants will build on the £35million worth of Government support grants which we have already allocated locally.”
Visit the council’s grants page for more details.
