Local restrictions support grants

Grant 1: local restrictions support grant (closed) addendum – November lockdown

Eligible businesses who applied for this grant before 31 January 2021, who have not already received this grant, will be paid this grant by 5 March 2021.

If you applied for this grant after 31 January then you will be paid by no later than 31 March 2021.

If you have applied for any other grants we will aim to pay you for other grants at the same time but this will not always be possible.

Grants 2-7

• grant 2: Local restrictions support grant (sector) – for businesses closed since March 2020
• grant 3: Local restrictions support grant (open) – for businesses affected by tier restrictions from 17 October to 4 November
• grant 4: Local restrictions support grant (open) – for businesses affected by tier 2 restrictions from 2 December to 19 December
• grant 5: Local restrictions support grant (closed) – for businesses required to close for tier 2 or 3 in December
• grant 6: Local restrictions support grant (closed) (addendum Tier 4) – for businesses required to close during tier 4
• grant 7: Christmas support payment for wet-led pubs. All applications for this grant must be received by 28 February

Eligible businesses who applied for grants 2-7 before 31 January 2021 will be paid the relevant grants by 5 March 2021.

If you applied for grants 2-7 after 31 January then you will be paid by no later than 31 March 2021.

If you have applied for any other grants we will aim to pay you for other grants at the same time but this will not always be possible.

Grants 8 and 9

• grant 8: Local restrictions support grant (closed) addendum
  • first cycle: For the period 5 January – 15 February 2021
  • second cycle: For the period 16 February – 31 March 2021
• grant 9: Closed business lockdown payment – one-off payment for businesses required to close for January lockdown

If you applied for any of the grants above (grants 1-7) before 15 January 2021 then you do not need to apply for the January onwards grants (grants 8 and 9) again.

You will be automatically assessed for grants 8 and 9 unless you contact us to tell us that you’re ineligible for these.

For business completing an application form for any of the local restrictions support grants (grants 1-9) from 15 January onwards then you can apply for grants 1-9 using one application form.

The first payment cycle of grant 8 and grant 9 will be combined and paid to businesses at the same time in one payment.

These grants will begin being paid from w/c 1 March. Where possible we will also pay the second payment cycle of grant 8 in the same payment.

All applications for grant 8 (first payment cycle) and grant 9 must be received by 31 March and the Government has advised that all payments have to be made by 30 April 2021.

All applications for the second cycle of grant 8 must be received by 31 May and the Government has advised that all payments have to be made by 30 June 2021.

If you have applied for any other grants we will aim to pay you for other grants at the same time but this will not always be possible.

If you have applied for more than one of the local restrictions support grant and you are eligible for a grant/grants you may not receive one single payment for all of the grant schemes you have applied for at the same time.

We are aiming to pay businesses for any grants you are eligible for in as few payments as possible but this will not always be achievable due to the number of different grant schemes and the fact we would like to pay businesses any available grant funding as soon as we can.

Once we have processed your payment for any of the above grants we will aim to contact you via email to confirm which grant/grants the payment is for.

Please don’t contact the Council to request an update on when you will be paid a grant or to ask which grant you have been paid for.

The heading above provides a timeline of when you can expect to be paid for each grant and we will contact businesses directly to advise which grant/grants you have been paid after payment has been made.

Grant 1: local restrictions support grant (closed) addendum – November lockdown

• eligible businesses with a rateable value of exactly £15,000 or under will receive £1,334 for the 5 November- 2 December period
• eligible businesses with a rateable value of over £15,000 and less than £51,000 will receive £2,000 for the 5 November- 2 December period
• eligible businesses with a rateable value of exactly £51,000 and above will receive £3,000 for the 5 November- 2 December period

Grant 2: Local restrictions support grant (sector) – for businesses closed since March 2020

• eligible businesses with a rateable value of exactly £15,000 or under will receive £1,049 for the 1-4 November 2020 and the 2-19 December 2020 periods
• eligible businesses with a rateable value of over £15,000 and less than £51,000  will receive £1,572 for the 1-4 November 2020 and the 2-19 December 2020 periods
• eligible businesses with a rateable value of exactly £51,000 or above will receive £2,358 for the 1-4 November 2020 and the 2-19 December 2020 periods

Grant 3: Local restrictions support grant (open) – for businesses affected by tier restrictions from 17 October to 4 November

• eligible businesses with a rateable value of exactly £15,000 or under will receive £634 for the 17 October- 4 November period
• eligible businesses with a rateable value of over £15,000 and less than £51,000 will receive £950 for the 17 October- 4 November period
• eligible businesses with a rateable value of over £51,000 will receive £1,425 for the 17 October- 4 November period

Grant 4: Local restrictions support grant (open) – for businesses affected by tier 2 restrictions from 2 December to 19 December

• eligible businesses with a rateable value of exactly £15,000 or under will receive £467 for the 2- 15 December period
• eligible businesses with a rateable value of over £15,000 and less than £51,000 will receive £700 for the 2- 15 December period
• eligible businesses with a rateable value of over £51,000 will receive £1050 for the 2- 15 December period

Grant 5: Local restrictions support grant (closed) – for businesses required to close for tier 2 or 3 in December

Businesses closed in the December Tier 2 period (wet led pubs)

• eligible businesses with a rateable value of exactly £15,000 or under will receive £667 for the 2-15 December period
• eligible businesses with a rateable value over £15,000 and less than £51,000 will receive £1,000 for the 2-15 December period
• eligible businesses with a rateable value of exactly £51,000 or above will receive £1,500 for the 2-15 December period

Businesses closed in the December Tier 3 period (including hospitality, accommodation, indoor tourism, entertainment and leisure venues)

• eligible businesses with a rateable value of exactly £15,000 or under will receive £191 for the 16-19 December period
• eligible businesses with a rateable value over £15,000 and less than £51,000 will receive £286 for the 16-19 December period
• eligible businesses with a rateable value of exactly £51,000 or above will receive £429 for the 16-19 December period

Grant 6: Local restrictions support grant (closed) (addendum Tier 4) – for businesses required to close during tier 4

• eligible businesses with a rateable value of exactly £15,000 or under will receive £763 for the 20 December-4 January period
• eligible businesses with a rateable value over £15,000 and less than £51,000  will receive £1,143 for the 20 December-4 January period
• eligible businesses with a rateable value of exactly £51,000 or above will receive £1,715 for the 20 December-4 January period

Grant 7: Christmas support payment for wet-led pubs

• eligible businesses will receive a £1,000 one-off payment

Grant 8: Local restrictions support grant (closed) addendum

First payment cycle: 5 January – 15 February 2021

• eligible businesses with a rateable value of exactly £15,000 or under will receive £2,001
• eligible businesses with a rateable value over £15,000 and less than £51,000 will receive £3,000
• eligible businesses with a rateable value of exactly £51,000 or above will receive £4,500

Second payment cycle: 16 February to 31 March 2021

• eligible businesses with a rateable value of exactly £15,000 or under will receive £2,096
• eligible businesses with a rateable value over £15,000 and less than £51,000 will receive £3,143
• eligible businesses with a rateable value of exactly £51,000 or above will receive £4,714

Grant 9: Closed business lockdown payment – one-off payment for businesses required to close for January lockdown

• eligible businesses with a rateable value of exactly £15,000 or under will receive £4,000
• businesses with a rateable value over £15,000 and less than £51,000 will receive £6,000
• businesses with a rateable value of exactly £51,000 or above will receive £9,000

This grant is for businesses that were required to close for the national lockdown period which began on 5 November.

Eligible businesses include: non-essential retail, leisure, personal care, sports facilities and hospitality businesses.

These grants are only available to those businesses rate account holders.

A single grant to cover the lockdown period will be paid to each eligible business. Businesses with more than one qualifying property will be able to receive more than one grant.

Eligibility criteria

To be eligible:

• you must be the business rates account holder for the business premises
• you must have been trading on 4 November 2020, prior to the start of the national lockdown from 5 November 2020
• you must be a non-essential business that legally had to close from 5 November to 2 December 2020 (you are still eligible if for this grant if, as a result of lockdown measures, you continued to trade through click-and-collect, delivery or takeaway during this period)

You cannot receive grant funding if:

• you have chosen to close but have not been legally required to close by the government
• your usual (pre-lockdown) primary method of trading is as a takeaway

Read the government guidance.

This grant is for certain businesses (nightclubs, discos, dance halls, hostess bar, adult entertainment venues) who were required to close on 23 March 2020 and have been unable to reopen since.

The government has advised that payments will be made per 14-day closure period from the 1 November 2020 and will not be backdated.

During any national lockdown period, this grant will cease temporarily and eligible businesses will be paid from the local restrictions support grant (for closed businesses) grant fund.

Eligibility criteria

To be eligible:

• you must be the business rates account holder for the business premises
• you must have been trading on 22 March 2020 prior to the first national lockdown on 23 March
• you must be a nightclub, disco, dance hall, hostess bar or adult entertainment venue that was required to close on 23 March and has been legally required to stay closed since this date

You cannot receive grant funding if:

• you have reopened as another type of business (for example, changing a nightclub to a bar)
• you have chosen to close but have not been legally required to close by the government

Read the government guidance.

This is a discretionary grant for leisure, hospitality and accommodation businesses that were most affected by the Tier 2 restrictions including preventing households from mixing indoors and the 10pm curfew for pubs and restaurants.

This grant covers the 19 day period from 17 October to 4 November. The government has advised that this fund should be aimed at hospitality, accommodation, and leisure businesses who are most impacted by the Tier 2 restrictions.

Eligibility criteria

To be eligible:

• you must be the business rates account holder for the business premises
• you must have been trading on 16 October 2020, prior to the introduction of Tier 2 restrictions on 17 October 2020
• your business must be in the leisure, hospitality or accommodation sectors such as a cinema, restaurant, bar, pub, theatre, music venue, hotel, bed and breakfast, leisure or sports venue, gym, art gallery, museums or cafe

You cannot receive grant funding if:

• your business is a takeaway as it is considered that takeaways will not have been severely impacted by the Tier 2 restrictions
• your business is Airbnb style accommodation

Read the government guidance.

This is a discretionary grant for leisure, hospitality and accommodation businesses that were most affected by the Tier 2 restrictions including preventing households from mixing indoors.

This grant covers the Tier 2 period from 2 December to 19 December. The government has advised that this fund should be aimed at hospitality, accommodation, and leisure businesses who are most impacted by the Tier 2 restrictions.

Eligibility criteria

To be eligible:

• you must be the business rates account holder for the business premises and be registered for business rates with Hackney Council
• you must have been trading on 1 December 2020, prior to the introduction of Tier 2 restrictions on 2 December 2020. Please note if your business was closed on 1 December as a result of Government Covid-19 restrictions but would otherwise have been open and trading then you will be considered to have been trading on the 1st December
• your business must be in the leisure, hospitality or accommodation sectors such as a cinema, restaurant, bar, pub, theatre, music venue, hotel, bed and breakfast, leisure or sports venue, gym, art gallery, museums or cafe

You cannot receive grant funding if:

• your business is a takeaway as it is considered that takeaways will not have been severely impacted by the Tier 2 restrictions
• your business is Airbnb style accommodation

Read the government guidance.

This grant is for leisure, hospitality and accommodation businesses that were required to close due to Tier 2 or 3 restrictions that were in place from 2 December 2020 until the 19 December 2020.

Eligible businesses include:

• pubs that could not serve table meals and therefore had to close during Tier 2 restrictions, hospitality, accommodation, conference centres, exhibitions halls, indoor tourism, entertainment and leisure venues that were required to close under Tier 3 restrictions. Read more information on the businesses required to close in Tier 3

Eligibility criteria

To be eligible:

• you must have been required by the government to close your premises as a result of tier restrictions
• you must be the business rates account holder for the business premises and be registered for business rates with Hackney Council
• you must have been trading the day before the relevant tier restrictions came into effect. Where local restrictions are preceded by national lockdown measures, requiring the extended closure of eligible businesses, it is accepted that those businesses are still trading

You cannot receive grant funding if:

• you have chosen to close but have not been legally required to close by the Government
• your usual (pre-lockdown) primary method of trading is as a takeaway

Read the government guidance.

This grant is for businesses that were required by the government to close during the Tier 4 period in London. This grant covers the period from the 19 December 2020 until 5 January 2021.

Eligible businesses include:

• non-essential retail, leisure, personal care, sports facilities and hospitality businesses legally required to close by the government during this period. Read more information on the businesses required to close in Tier 4

Eligibility criteria

The above amounts will be paid pro rata if required to reflect the number of of days the restriction was in place.

To be eligible:

• you must have been required by the government to close your premises as a result of tier restrictions
• your business must have been trading the day prior to Tier 4 restrictions being introduced (18 December 2020) if you were required by government to close earlier as a result of these restrictions
• you must be the business rates account holder for the business premises

You cannot receive grant funding if:

• you have chosen to close but have not been legally required to close by the government
• your usual (pre-lockdown) primary method of trading is as a takeaway
• you have already received grant payments that equal the maximum levels of State Aid

Read the government guidance.

This is a one-off grant for wet-led pubs and bars for December and is in addition to any other grant awards you may be eligible for under Tier 2, 3 or 4 restrictions.

Pubs and bars that derive less than 50% of sales from food are considered to be wet-led.

Applications for this grant closed on 28 February 2021. You can no longer apply for this grant. All payments for this grant will be made by 31 March 2021.

Eligibility criteria

To be eligible:

• your business must be a pub (the definition of a pub excludes restaurants, cafes, nightclubs, hotels, snack bars, guesthouses, boarding houses, sporting venues, music venues, festival sites, theatres, museums, exhibition halls, cinemas, concert halls and casinos)
• when trading, your business is open to general members of the public
  when trading, your business allows free entry other than when occasional entertainment is provided
• when trading, your business allows drinking without requiring food to be consumed
• your business was trading on the day before the scheme was announced (i.e trading on the 30 November 2020)
• your business receives more than 50% of business income from the sales of drinks, and under 50% of business income from food sales
• you are a Hackney business rates account holder

Please note if your business was closed on the 30 November 2020 as a result of Government Covid-19 restrictions, but would otherwise have been open and trading then you will be considered to have been trading on the 30 November.

Read the government guidance.

Important note: If you have already applied for grant 1 for the November lockdown period you do not need to submit an application as you will be automatically assessed for this grant.

This grant is for businesses that were required to close for the national lockdown period which began on 5 January 2021.

This grant covers an initial period of 42 days between 5 January 2021 and 15 February and will be paid in one lump sum alongside the Closed Business Lockdown Payment. Businesses will receive further payment via the Local Restrictions Support Grant (Closed)(Grant 8) at a later date if the lockdown period extends beyond this point.

Eligible businesses include:

• non-essential retail, leisure, personal care, sports facilities and hospitality businesses.

Applications close on 31 March 2021.

Eligibility criteria

To be eligible:

• you must be the business rates account holder for the business premises
• you must have been trading on 4 January 2021, prior to the start of the national lockdown from 5 January 2021. Where businesses were closed due to restrictions that preceded the national restrictions, it is accepted that those businesses are still trading
• you must be a non-essential retail, hospitality or leisure business that legally had to close from 5 January 2021.

You cannot receive grant funding if:

• you have chosen to close but have not been legally required to close by the government
• your usual (pre-lockdown) primary method of trading is as a takeaway

Important note: If you have already applied for Grant 1 for the November lockdown period you do not need to submit an application as you will be automatically assessed for eligibility.

This one-off payment to support non-essential businesses that were required to close for the January lockdown. This payment is in addition to the funding provided by Grant 8. This grant will be paid to businesses at the same time as Grant 8.

Applications close on 31 March 2021.

Eligibility criteria

To be eligible:

• you must be the business rates account holder for the business premises
• you must have been trading on 4 January 2021, prior to the start of the national lockdown from 5 January 2021. Where businesses were closed due to restrictions that preceded the national restrictions, it is accepted that those businesses are still trading
• you must be a non-essential business that legally had to close from 5 January 2021

You cannot receive grant funding if:

• you have chosen to close but have not been legally required to close by the government
• your usual (pre-lockdown) primary method of trading is as a takeaway