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22/12/2021 UPDATE

The Government have announced a financial support package for businesses in the hospitality industries. See a summary here.

21/12/2021 UPDATE

A bailout package has been announced for business impacted by the latest wave of covid cases:

• Grants for hospitality and leisure businesses in England, worth up to £6,000 per premise. The Treasury has set aside £683m for these payments, which will be administered through local authorities and will be available in the coming weeks.

• Further grants for businesses in England, worth £102m, intended to help businesses most in need, and again administered through local authorities.

• The resumption of the statutory sick pay rebate scheme, which will reimburse employers in the UK with fewer than 250 workers for the cost of paying statutory sick pay for Covid-related absences for up to two weeks.

• An extra £30m for arts organisations , paid through the culture recovery fund.

20/12/2021 Update

With the spread of the new Covid variant Omicron, businesses yet again face an incredibly challenging time ahead. We are working with other BIDs, the local council and the Mayor of London to lobby the government for effective and sufficient support. See below the letters Camden Town Unlimited & Euston Town are signatories to, calling for urgent responses to the needs of businesses.

16.12.21

Letter to: the Prime Minister
From: from Mayor and London leaders
Calling for urgent support for retail, hospitality leisure and culture sectors. PRESS RELEASE.

17.12.21

Letter to: the Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretary of State of the Dept for Business Energy & Industrial Strategy, Her Majesty’s Treasury, BEIS
From: Cllr Danny Beales, Camden BIDs and Camden Business Board
Requesting urgent support for Local Authorities to provide businesses with immediate grants, full business rates relief to be introduced until March 2022 and extension of VAT relief for hospitality, and a commitment to review if new restrictions introduced.