Useful Information for Businesses – Updates from 25th to 29th June 2020
Within this blog we aim to give you top-line, up-to-date information at a glance with links to relevant sites that explain in more detail the latest news, support, and financial help that we hope will make a difference to your business during the Covid19 Crisis and beyond.
Applications for the Croydon Discretionary Grants Fund will close on 30 June 2020.
Businesses can apply for this grant and check the eligibility criteria on the discretionary grants fund page.
To be eligible businesses must:
- Have been trading on or before 11 March 2020
• Employ fewer than 50 employees
• Have experienced a 40% or more drop in income due to the impact of coronavirus crisis
• Have fixed property-related costs
• Have not received other coronavirus-specific grants (not including the coronavirus job retention scheme to furlough staff, or the self-employment income support scheme)
Property costs must be related to work space, not residential property or storage costs.
Businesses must be able to clearly demonstrate the 40% loss in income. Additional evidence such as cancelled orders will be considered.
Charities and bed and breakfasts are not eligible to apply.
London Growth Hub webinar series continues
- Cyber Security Unpacked: Protect Your Business(Tuesday 30 June)
- Property advice during COVID-19 (Tuesday 30 June)
Catch-up on White Label webinars
If you’ve missed previous White Label webinars, you can now watch them all on YouTube! Past topics cover: entrepreneurial Croydon – advice for directors and how to remain innovative; employee health and wellbeing; commercial space and security advice; finance and other business support during Covid-19.
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Discount on hand sanitiser
With many businesses reopening this week, it is more important than ever to reassure customers that you are taking all necessary safety measures to protect them and your staff. Save The High Street are offering a 20% discount on all hand sanitsers and sanitiser stations. This is the same sanitiser being used by Transport for London.To take advantage of the discount, use discount code SAVETHEHIGHSTREET at checkout.
Daily update from GOV.UK.
Department for Education
College collaboration fund (CCF)
PM announces transformative school rebuilding programme
Coronavirus (COVID-19): keeping children safe online
Participation in education, training and employment: 2019
Apprenticeships and traineeships: June 2020
Local authority school places scorecards
Statistics: further education and skills
Local authority school places scorecards 2019
Statistics: NEET and participation
Statistics: higher education graduate employment and earnings
Graduate outcomes (LEO): subject by provider 2017 to 2018
Statistics: school and pupil numbers
Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2020
Statistics: childcare and early years
Education provision: children under 5 years of age, January 2020
Warning notices to independent schools
School workforce in England: November 2019
Providing free school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
Open academies, free schools, studio schools and UTCs
Actions for FE colleges and providers during the coronavirus outbreak
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Solar photovoltaics deployment
List of special feature articles by subject published in Energy Trends
Small Business Survey 2019: panel report
Energy Trends: UK total energy
Energy Trends: UK solid fuels and derived gases
Small Business Survey 2019: methodology
Energy Trends: June 2020, special feature article
Quarterly total energy data revisions
UK energy statistics: statistical press release – June 2020
Energy Trends: UK oil and oil products
Methodology and changes made in the NAEI Road Transport Inventory for fuel consumption
Road transport energy consumption at regional and local authority level
Energy Trends and Prices statistical release: 25 June 2020
UK local authority and regional carbon dioxide emissions national statistics: 2005 to 2018
UK local authority and regional carbon dioxide emissions national statistics
Sub-national road transport consumption data
National Energy Efficiency Data-Framework (NEED) data explorer
Domestic National Energy Efficiency Data-Framework (NEED) methodology
National Energy Efficiency Data-Framework (NEED): consumption data tables
Quarterly Energy Prices: June 2020
Sub-national road transport consumption during 2018
National Energy Efficiency Data-Framework (NEED) report: summary of analysis 2020
Domestic energy price statistics
National Energy Efficiency Data-Framework (NEED): impact of measures data tables 2020
Industrial energy price statistics
International energy price comparison statistics
National Energy Efficiency Data-Framework (NEED)
Quarterly domestic energy customer numbers
Quarterly domestic energy switching statistics
Gas and electricity prices in the non-domestic sector
Prices of fuels purchased by manufacturing industry
International road fuel prices
Industrial energy price indices
Prices of fuels purchased by major power producers
International domestic energy prices
Monthly and annual prices of road fuels and petroleum products
Road fuel and other petroleum product price statistics
International industrial energy prices
BEIS: workforce management information, May 2020
BEIS: workforce management information
Capacity Market auction determination: letter from BEIS to National Grid ESO, June 2020
£400 million boost to regional R&D projects across the UK
Thank you to White Label Creative who have been invaluable in passing on relevant information to us on a daily basis and Croydon Council Economic Development Team – we hope that in re-circulating the salient points, we can all work together to help as many businesses as possible.
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