Useful Information for Businesses – Update 27th May 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 relevant news, support, and financial help that we hope will make a difference to your business during the Covid19 Crisis and beyond:

High streets set for a June reopening amid £50m recovery boost

Updated guidance for the retail sector was published alongside this announcement, detailing the measures retailers should take to meet the necessary social distancing and hygiene standards. You can find the guidance here.

You can also join a free webinar, hosted by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, to find out more about how to make your retail workplace COVID-secure.

• Thursday 28 May, 11am: Shops and branches – Guidance for people who run shops, branches, stores or similar environments.

Further information on the £50m Reopening High Streets Safely Fund can be found here.

Innovative space companies sought for £1m fund to tackle space debris

The call for applications is open from 26 May 2020 and will close on 10 July 2020.

ADDITIONAL UPDATES AND GUIDANCE

The coronavirus Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme is now live on GOV‌.UK
If you’re an employer with fewer than 250 employees, you can now claim for coronavirus-related Statutory Sick Pay (SSP). If you have a tax agent, they can also make claims on your behalf.

To make a claim now, please visit GOV‌.UK and search ‘Check if you can claim back Statutory Sick Pay paid to employees due to coronavirus (COVID-19)’.

WEBINARS

GOVERNMENT BUSINESS SUPPORT

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.