Highland Council helps almost 3500 businesses obtain a small business and self-catering grant during coronavirus pandemic
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The Covid-19 small business and self-catering grant scheme, set up to help companies stay in business during the coronavirus crisis, has now paid out £39.42million to 3450 Highland businesses.
The backlog of applications generated when the grant scheme was first launched has cleared and applications are now being dealt with as they are received.
Allan Maguire, Highland Council's head of development and regeneration, said: "Over the past two weeks the extra staff brought in to administer the grant scheme, have helped us to deal with the backlog.
“While businesses have worked successfully with us to get the evidence required to allow their grant to be paid, we still have more than 200 incomplete applications. We have contacted all of the businesses involved and ask that they promptly get the required information back to us, so we can complete the assessment of their application and get the grant paid to them.”
On Tuesday, the council will be opening up the grant scheme to eligible businesses who have multiple premises.
