Highland hospitality businesses invited to apply for up to £6800 in funding to make up for lost festive season bookings

Hospitality businesses which lost bookings during the Christmas/New Year period can now apply for grant support from the Scottish Government.

Busineses will receive either a grant of £4500 or £6800 depending on their rateable value.

To be eligible the hospitality business must be registered as either a public house, restaurant, café or other licensed premises classed as hospitality such as sports and social clubs. Nightclubs and hotels with bars and restaurants can also apply.

Councillor Trish Robertson, who chairs Highland Council's economy and infrastructure comittee, said: “If the business is an eligible one, and previously received a grant from the council, we have written direct to them and have invited them to complete a short online form if they wish to receive grant support.

"At the moment the grant scheme is open until the end of January, but we urge all businesses not to wait until then but to complete and submit the online form as soon as possible.

“If a hospitality business does not receive a direct email from us, and they think they may be eligible, they must go the Scottish Government’s Find Business Support website, read the guidance provided and follow instructions as to how they can apply.”

For full up-to-date details of these and any other grant schemes that may become available, affected businesses are advised to go to the Scottish Government's Find Business Support website: https://findbusinesssupport.gov.scot/coronavirus-advice

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