Omicron Hospitality and Leisure Grant

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You do not qualify for Omicron Hospitality and Leisure Grant. You may qualify for Additional Restrictions Grant, please return to the website for further details.

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For the purposes of this grant scheme, a business is considered to be trading if it is engaged in business activity. This should be interpreted as carrying on a trade or profession, or buying and selling goods or services in order to generate turnover. Fully constituted businesses in liquidation, dissolved, struck off or subject to a striking-off notice are not eligible under these conditions. To help further, some trading indicators are included below that can help assess what can be defined as trading for the purposes of the grant schemes. Indicators that a business is trading are: • The business continues to trade, including online, via delivery services etc. • The business is not in liquidation, dissolved, struck off or subject to a striking-off notice or under notice • The business is engaged in business activity; managing accounts, preparing for reopening, planning and implementing COVID-safe measures

e.g. hairdressers, restaurant etc


Holiday accommodation businesses  must demonstrate income generated from the let of the premises during the 6 months prior to 30 December 2021 to be eligible for this scheme.  This can be in the form of invoices, receipts, or bank statements showing income from the letting of the unit for which you are making an application for this grant.  



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On Thursday 4 March new subsidy allowances were established for the COVID-19 business grants schemes. 
Subsidy allowance

Amount and conditions
Small amounts of financial assistance allowance

Grants may be paid in accordance with Article 364(4) of the TCA, which enables an applicant to receive up to a maximum level of subsidy without engaging Chapter 3 of the TCA. This allowance is up to 325,000 Special Drawing Rights, to a single economic actor over a rolling period of three fiscal years (the “Relevant Period”), which is the equivalent of £335,000 as at 2 March 2021. When calculating the amount of subsidy an applicant has received under Article 364(4) of the TCA in a Relevant Period, a local authority should have regard to any subsidy given under Article 364(4) and any subsidy given under Commission Regulation (EU) No 1407/2013 (the De Minimis Regulation). An applicant may elect not to receive grants under the Small Amounts of Financial Assistance Allowance and instead receive grants only using the below allowances available under this scheme.

COVID-19 business grant allowance

Where the Small Amounts of Financial Assistance Allowance has been reached or an applicant has elected not to receive a grant under this allowance, grants may be paid in compliance with the Principles set out in Article 366 of the TCA and in compliance with Article 364(3) of the TCA under the COVID-19 Business Grant Allowance (subsidies granted on a temporary basis to respond to a national or global economic emergency). For the purposes of the COVID-19 Business Grant Schemes, this allowance is £1,900,000 per single economic actor. This allowance includes any grants previously received under other COVID-19 Business Grant Schemes using the COVID-19 Business Grant Allowance and any State aid previously received under Section 3.1 of the European Commission’s Temporary Framework across any other UK scheme. This may be combined with the Small Amounts of Financial Assistance Allowance to equal £2,235,000 (subject to the exact amount applicable under the Small Amounts of Financial Assistance Allowance using the Special Drawing Right calculator, and any other support an applicant has received under the Small Amounts of Financial Assistance Allowance in the Relevant Period).

COVID-19 business grant special allowance

Where an applicant has reached its limit under the Small Amounts of Financial Assistance Allowance and COVID-19 Business Grant Allowance, it may be able to access a further allowance of funding under the COVID-19 Business Grant Schemes of up to £10,000,000 per single economic actor, provided the following conditions are met:

The Special Allowance covers only the applicant’s uncovered fixed costs incurred during the period between 1 March 2020 and the date of application, including such costs incurred in any part of that period (‘eligible period’);

Applicants must demonstrate a decline in turnover during the eligible period of at least 30% compared to the same period in 2019. The calculation of losses will be based on audited accounts or official statutory accounts filed at Companies House, or approved accounts submitted to HMRC which includes information on the applicant’s profit and loss;

‘Uncovered fixed costs’ means fixed costs not otherwise covered by profit, insurance or other subsidies;

The grant payment must not exceed 70% of the applicant’s uncovered fixed costs, except for micro and small enterprises (for the purposes of this scheme defined as less than 50 employees and less than £9,000,000 of annual turnover and/or annual balance sheet), where the grant payment must not exceed 90% of the uncovered fixed costs;

Grant payments under this allowance must not exceed £10,000,000 per single economic actor. This allowance includes any subsidies previously received in accordance with Section 3.12 of the European Commission’s Temporary Framework or previously received under the COVID-19 Business Grant Schemes using this COVID-19 Business Grant Special Allowance; all figures used must be gross, that is, before any deduction of tax or other charge;

Grants provided under this allowance shall not be cumulated with other subsidies for the same costs.


An applicant must be able to provide the necessary documentation to demonstrate it is eligible for funding under this COVID-19 Business Grant Special Allowance



Grants provided in excess of the Small Amounts of Financial Assistance Allowance may not be granted to applicants that were defined as an 'undertaking in difficulty' on 31 December 2019.

In derogation to the above, grants can be granted to micro or small enterprises (as defined above) that were already in difficulty on 31 December 2019 provided that they are not subject to collective insolvency proceedings.

'Undertaking in difficulty' means an undertaking in respect of which at least one of the following circumstances occurs:

  • In the case of a limited liability company (other than an SME that has been in existence for less than three years) where more than half of its subscribed share capital has disappeared as a result of accumulated losses. This is the case when deduction of accumulated losses from reserves (and all other elements generally considered as part of the own funds of the company) leads to a negative cumulative amount that exceeds half of the subscribed share capital. For the purposes of this provision, 'share capital' includes, where relevant, any share premium.
  • In the case of a company where at least some members have unlimited liability for the debt of the company (other than an SME that has been in existence for less than three years) where more than half of its capital as shown in the company accounts has disappeared as a result of accumulated losses.
  • Where the undertaking is subject to collective insolvency proceedings or fulfils the criteria for being placed in collective insolvency proceedings at the request of its creditors.
  • Where the undertaking has received rescue aid and has not yet reimbursed the loan or terminated the guarantee or has received restructuring aid and is still subject to a restructuring plan.
  • In the case of an undertaking that is not an SME, where, for the past two years: (1) the undertaking's book debt to equity ratio has been greater than 7.5 and (2) the undertaking's EBITDA interest coverage ratio has been below 1.0.


Declaration

You must declare all state subsidy received in the table below, whether this has come from Folkestone & Hythe District Council, another Local Authority or Central Government, whether for this hereditament, another property in the same economic actor’s name or for any other purposes.
You will have been advised if any funding is considered state subsidy/aid by the awarding body at the time it was made.
The council does not have a means to access this information on your behalf so you may need to refer to your tax returns and/or bank statements in order to provide us with the complete list.
Any partially completed lists may be rejected and cause a delay to your application.
This should only be left blank if this is the first time you/your organisation have claimed a grant or other aid from any public sector body in the last three fiscal years.
Details of aid received



I declare

  • I am authorised to sign on behalf of the business
  • This premise is not used for personal use
  • This business has not exceeded subsidy allowances
  • I have filled out this form and declare that the information given within it is true and complete to the best of my knowledge

The Government will not accept deliberate manipulation and fraud – and any business caught falsifying its records to gain additional grant money will face prosecution and any funding issued will be subject to claw back, as may any grants paid in error.


The Council will share your data with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial strategy.