Government/Council grants/loans etc

[Jagmanv12]

Several grants or loans totalling millions have been promised but has anybody received any of these grants or loans?

[louiechevy]

I had the letter and form last Friday that I've filled out and sent back, no idea how long I will have to wait though.

[Sophisticated Sarah]

Don’t they usually come with ridiculous terms and conditions that make them pointless?

[mondeoman]

After 2 weeks, something like £270m has been lent to 900 (?) companies, with about 200,000 applications outstanding.

You cannot get through to a bank to talk about CBILs.

The Furlough application website wont be open until at least end of April.

Unless this changes this week, a lot of SME's wont make it past mid-May, let alone through the shut-down.

[louiechevy]

Should of mentioned I have a small car repair businesse so small in fact it's just me! And I've applied for the small businesses grant so nothing to pay back.

[louiechevy]

The grant has been paid into my business account today. So I've got mine anyone else?

[biggbn]

I am self employed and have not had any word from hrmc yet. If I look online it says you can't apply, they contact you? To be fair if nothing comes nothing comes, we will manage. I will hopefully be starting my probationary year as a teacher in August so not long to go

[Countdown]

louiechevy said:

The grant has been paid into my business account today. So I've got mine anyone else?

Two of my brothers run their own businesses and I believe they've had theirs. They're both with different Local Authorities.

ETA It seems odd how the £10k grant doesn't take into account whether your business has been negatively or positively affected by COVID19. Afaics you could actually be doing far better as a direct result of the pandemic and still get the grant.

[mcdjl]

Countdown said:

louiechevy said:

The grant has been paid into my business account today. So I've got mine anyone else?

Two of my brothers run their own businesses and I believe they've had theirs. They're both with different Local Authorities.

I've had one, got phone by the council and told to apply. Had the money through 2 weeks later.

[Ian Geary]

The council I work for went flat out to get a web form written and crunch data to get the £10k and £25k grants out.

Our problem has been contacting businesses where we don't have bank details...there's no way we're sending cheques out to businesses that are potentially closed up for the duration.

I would suggest businesses who think they might quality get onto the council they pay nndr to.

Can't speak for the bank loans or furlough scheme, but logistically it would be a nightmare I guess especially with details being hazy.

Reminds me of the Brexit scheme for EU citizens to get domiciled status.

Off they went building a website that took a payment, only for the govt to announce that applications would be free.

Turns out their whole website and process workflow was based on a payment being taken first...oops, they had to completely rebuild it.