Applications open for COVID-19 Additional Relief Fund
Date Added: 02/02/2022
Applications are open for rate-paying businesses in Central Bedfordshire to benefit from the COVID-19 Additional Relief Fund scheme.
The government has allocated us approximately £5.3million to provide business rates relief for businesses impacted by COVID-19 and who are not eligible for other existing relief schemes such as the Extended Retail Discount, Nursery Discount and Small Business Rate Relief.
Applications are open for four weeks until Monday 28 February.
To be eligible, your business must:
• not be eligible (or would have been eligible) for any rate relief scheme from the government or us (i.e. Expanded Retail Discount, Nursery Discount or Small Business Rate Relief)
• have been adversely impacted by the pandemic and have been unable to adequately adapt to that impact; full details on eligibility criteria are available to read in the CARF policy (PDF)
Eligible businesses will receive a grant amount equivalent to a 30% rate relief off their 2021/22 bill. The maximum amount of funding for rate relief that can be awarded to a business is £25,000.
If your application is successful, the amount of relief you will be awarded won't be calculated until the scheme has closed.
We'll contact you with the outcome, once the scheme has ended.
Find out more and apply