The government asked councils to administer grant schemes to businesses that were forced to close by law under Tier 3, Tier 4 and national lockdown restrictions.

These schemes are now closed: 

• National Lockdown - Closed Business Lockdown Scheme 
• Local Restrictions Support Grant (Closed) for businesses closed from 5 November to 2 December 2020 
• Local Restrictions Support Grant (sector) 
• Local Restrictions Support Grant (for open businesses)  
• Restart grants

Businesses closed from 16 December 2020

Government restrictions came into force on:

• 16 December 2020 - Tier 3
• 20 December 2020 - Tier 4
• 5 January 2021 - national lockdown

To help us calculate grant payments, we separated the local and national restrictions into four periods:  

Name	Restrictions	When restrictions were in place and which grants apply
Period A	Tier 3 restrictions	16 December 2020 to 19 December 2020 (4 days)   Local Restrictions Support Grant (Closed) Addendum applies
Period B	Tier 4 restrictions	20 December 2020 to 4 January 2021 (16 days)      Local Restrictions Support Grant (Closed) Addendum applies
Period C	National lockdown	5 January 2021 to 16 February 2021 (6 weeks)     National Lockdown - Closed Business Lockdown Scheme (Single one-off payment) applies and Local Restrictions Support Grant (Closed) Addendum applies.
Period D	National lockdown	16 February 2021 to 31 March 2021 (44 days)     Local Restrictions Support Grant (Closed) Addendum applies.

Local Restrictions Support Grant (Closed)

Grants were paid to businesses that pay business rates to the Royal Borough of Greenwich and had to close by law because of Tier 3, Tier 4 and national lockdown restrictions. This included non-essential retail, leisure, personal care, sports facilities and hospitality businesses.

The grant amounts are calculated by the government and are based on the rateable value of the business address. The grant amounts for each period of entitlement are based on businesses being closed for a qualifying period of 14 days. 

Rateable Value	Grant amount
Rateable Value	Grant amount
Rateable value of below £15,001	£667
Rateable value of between £15,001 to £50,999	£1,000
Rateable value of over £50,999	£1,500

How payments are calculated

As the requirements for each lockdown were different, grant payments were calculated on a pro-rata basis across the three possible periods of entitlement.

These tables show the grant payments calculated pro-rata: 

Period A: Tier 3 Restrictions from 16 December 2020 to 19 December 2020 (4 days) 

Rateable Value	Grant amount
Rateable value of below £15,001	£190.57
Rateable value of between £15,001 to £50,999	£285.71
Rateable value of over £50,999	£428.57

Period B: Tier 4 Restrictions from 20 December 2020 to 4 January 2021 (16 days)    

Rateable Value	Grant amount
Rateable value of below £15,001	£762.29
Rateable value of between £15,001 to £50,999	£1,142.86
Rateable value of over £50,999	£1,714.29

Period C: National Restrictions from 5 January 2021 to 16 February 2021 (6 weeks)   

Rateable Value	Grant amount
Rateable value of below £15,001	£2,001
Rateable value of between £15,001 to £50,999	£3,000
Rateable value of over £50,999	£4,500

Period D: National Restrictions from 16 February 2021 to 31 March 2021 (44 days)

Rateable Value	Grant amount
Rateable value of below £15,001	£2,096
Rateable value of between £15,001 to £50,999	£3,143
Rateable value of over £50,999	£4,714

National Lockdown - Closed Business Lockdown Scheme 

This grant was a one-off single payment available to businesses in addition to the payments made under the Local Restrictions Support Grant Scheme (Closed) Addendum Scheme. 

Grants were paid to businesses that pay business rates to the Royal Borough of Greenwich and had to close because of the national lockdown restrictions that began on 5 January 2021. 

The grant amounts are calculated by the government and are based on the rateable value of the business address.

Rateable Value	Grant amount
Rateable value of below £15,001	£4,000
Rateable value of between £15,001 to £50,999	£6,000
Rateable value of over £50,999	£9,000

Local Restrictions Support Grant (Closed) for businesses closed from 5 November to 2 December 2020 

This was a mandatory scheme. Grants were paid to businesses that pay business rates and had to close because of government restrictions during the national lockdown from 5 November to 2 December 2020. This included non-essential retail, leisure, personal care, sports facilities and hospitality businesses. 

The grant amounts are dependent on rateable value:

Rateable Value	Grant amount
Rateable value of below £15,001	£1,334
Rateable value of between £15,001 to £50,999	£2,000
Rateable value of over £50,999	£3,000

Local Restrictions Support Grant (sector) 

This was a non-discretionary grant for nightclubs and adult entertainment venues that had to close from 23 March 2020.

The government asked local authorities to pay grants for the 4-day period from 1 November to 4 November and subsequently after the national lockdown.

The grant amounts are dependent on rateable value range for “14 day” periods: 

Rateable Value	Grant amount
Rateable value of below £15,001	£667
Rateable value of between £15,001 to £50,999	£1,000
Rateable value of over £50,999	£1,500

Restart grants

Restart grants were one off grants for business ratepayers, payable from 1 April 2021. Applications closed on 30 June 2021. 

To qualify, the business must have been the ratepayer on 1 April 2021 and must have been trading on that date. Indicators that a business was trading included: 

• the business had staff on furlough 
• the business continued to trade online 
• the business was engaged in business activity 

The business must not have been:  

• in liquidation 
• dissolved 
• struck off or subject to a striking off notice 

Grant amounts

Non-essential retail premises 

This table shows the grant amounts that eligible non-essential retail businesses were entitled to:

Rateable value	Grant
£0 to £15,000	£2,667
£15,001 to £50,999	£4,000
£51,000 and over	£6,000

Hospitality, leisure, accommodation, gym and sports, and personal care sectors 

This table shows the grant amounts that eligible businesses in the hospitality, leisure, accommodation, gym and sports, and personal care sectors were entitled to:

Rateable value	Grant
£0 to £15,000	£8,000
£15,001 to £50,999	£12,000
£51,000 and over	£18,000

Eligibility 

The list of businesses eligible for each grant were categorised by business type: 

Non-essential retail businesses

Non-essential retail premises are businesses that are open to the public and used mainly or wholly for the purposes of retail sale or hire of goods or services, where the primary purpose of products or services provided are not necessary to the health and well-being of the public.

Hospitality businesses

The main function of hospitality businesses is to provide a venue for the consumption and sale of food and drink.

Leisure businesses

Leisure businesses provide opportunities, experiences and facilities, in particular for culture, recreation, entertainment, celebratory events, days and nights out, betting and gaming.

Accommodation businesses

Accommodation businesses provide lodging for holiday, travel and other purposes.

Gym and sport businesses

Gym and sport businesses are commercial establishments where physical exercise or training is conducted on an individual basis or group basis, using exercise equipment or open floor space with or without instruction, or where individual and group sporting, athletic and physical activities are participated in competitively or recreationally.

Personal care businesses

Personal care businesses provide a service, treatment or activity for the purposes of personal beauty, hair, grooming, body care and aesthetics, and wellbeing.

If you have any queries about this scheme, email businesssupportgrants@royalgreenwich.gov.uk. Please include your business address and business rates account number.