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Additional restrictions grant - High street growth

Application form

Eligibility assessment

Please complete the questions below for an immediate assessment as to whether you meet the eligibility requirements.

Are you a micro or small business? *

Yes No

To be a micro business, under the Companies House Act 2006, a business must satisfy two or more of the following requirements:

Turnover: Not more than £632,000
Balance sheet total: Not more than £316,000
Number of employees: a headcount of staff of not more than 10

To be a small business, under the Companies House Act 2006, a business must satisfy two or more of the following requirements:

Turnover: Not more than £10.2 million
Balance sheet total: Not more than £5.1 million
Number of employees: a headcount of staff of not more than 50

Is your company registered in Lichfield District?*

Yes No

Is your business in adminstration, insolvent or has a striking off notice been made in respect of the business?*

Yes No

Do you occupy a ground floor unit in one of Lichfield District’s settlements?*

Yes No

From the answers you have given above you have met the initial eligibility criteria. Please complete the rest of the form to submit your application.

From the answers you have given above you have not met the initial eligibility criteria.

Please do not submit this form.

About you

What is your name?*

First Name

Last Name

What is your role in the business (e.g. director, owner etc.)*

What is your email address?*

What is your telephone number?*

About your business

What is the full name of your business?*

What is your business address?*

Address Line 1

Address Line 2

City

County/Region

Postcode

What is your website address?*

If you do not have a website enter "Not applicable".

You must supply at least one of the below references:

Business rates account number (this can be found on your bill)

Must be 8 characters.

Company registration number

VAT registration Number

Charity registration number

Unique tax reference or partnership number

National insurance number

Please describe your businesses activities.*

Please outline your growth project plan, what items you are seeking to request?*

How will the project and these items support your businesses growth, e.g. job creation, diversification, new products or services, increased capacity etc.*

I agree that the grant shall go towards my business directly and not be used as a wage supplement*

Yes

I understand that the grant income received is taxable.*

Yes

Supporting information

What is the total project cost?* £

How much grant are you requesting?* £

How much will your contribution be? (it must be at least 25% of the overall project cost)* £

Please provide proof of match funding (latest monthly bank statement)*

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4.5 Please outline the project items, their cost and a link to the items you are requesting to purchase (showing evidence of the items cost)*

Please provide a link to your businesses Companies House page

Do you require planning permission or building control approval for your project?*

Yes No

Have you received approval?*

Yes No

Please provide evidence of planning permission or building control approval such as a link to the webpage or uploading evidence below.

maximum 200 characters

Upload evidence if no link available

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Payee details

Please make sure that you enter the details below accurately, as payments may be rejected.

Bank name*

Bank address*

Address Line 1

Address Line 2

City

County/Region

Postcode

Name on bank account*

Account number*

Must have 8 digits (e.g. 12345678)

Sort code*

Must have 6 digits (e.g. 123456)

State Aid

The United Kingdom left the EU on 31 January 2020, nonetheless under the Withdrawal Agreement the State aid rules continue to apply during a transition period, subject to regulation by the EU Commission. The local authority must be satisfied that all State aid requirements have been fully met and complied with when making grant payments, including, where required, compliance with all relevant conditions of the EU State aid De-Minimis Regulation, the EU Commission Temporary Framework for State aid measures to support the economy in the current COVID-19 outbreak, the approved COVID-19 Temporary Framework for UK Authorities, and any relevant reporting requirements to the EU Commission.

Local authorities have a discretion to make payments to eligible recipients under either the De Minimis rules or the COVID-19 Temporary Framework for UK Authorities (provided all the relevant conditions are met).

Payments of up to and including £10,000 can be provided under the De Minimis rules, meaning applicants can receive up to €200,000 of aid within a three year period.

Payments of up to and including £25,000 (or where the De Minimis threshold has been reached) should be paid under the COVID-19 Temporary Framework for UK Authorities. Local authorities should note the conditions attached to the Temporary Framework, including the €800,000 threshold per undertaking (€120 000 per undertaking active in the fishery and aquaculture sector or €100 000 per undertaking active in the primary production of agricultural products), and requirement for recipients to declare they were not an undertaking in difficulty on 31 December 2019.

Please tick the confirmation box below to confirm that your application meets the state aid requirements.*

Yes

Data Protection

Your information may be shared with other council services and partner organisations to ensure our records are kept accurate and to help us to identify services or benefits you may be entitled to or interested in. We may also need to share your information for the prevention and detection of fraud and/or other crimes or as the law requires. For further information about how we use your information please refer to the Council’s Privacy Statement on www.lichfielddc.gov.uk.

E-newsletter

Lichfield District Council’s Economic Development service have a Business News e-newsletter which provides local businesses with business and economic news, funding opportunities, workshops and initiatives to help you develop and grow your business.

Please tick the box if you’d like to be added to the e-newsletter database.

Yes

Monitoring

As part of receiving the grant funding from the Additional Restrictions Support Grant, we will be contacting you about how you have spent the money to support your business.

Please tick the box to acknowledge that we will be contacting yourself after receiving the grant for the above monitoring purposes.*

Yes

Declarations

Please tick the confirmation boxes to acknowledge that you understand the following elements of the scheme.

Once your application has been approved all items must be purchased in two weeks with invoices sent to the economic development team to release the funding. Without proof of purchase the grant can’t be defrayed.*

Yes

You are unable to claim items retrospectively before receiving a response about the outcome of your application.*

Yes

The economic development team must be made aware of any amendments to items or quotes requested after approval, for them to be confirmed as satisfactory. *

Yes