Councils begin administering coronavirus business grants

Councils across the British isles, which include Sunderland, Devon and Cornwall, have this week began producing grant payments to qualified companies and organisations amid the coronavirus.

In response to the immense economic impression of the coronavirus pandemic, the British isles federal government declared unprecedented ranges of business aid, which include grants to deal with wages, business costs holidays and income grants.

Sunderland Town Council has designed income grants to business amounting to the value of £3.3m. The £10,000 and £25,000 income grants to companies declared by the federal government for Sunderland corporations are becoming administered by Sunderland Town Council’s Business Rates team.

Around 10,000 companies across Cornwall have received a total of £116m in grant funding to help cope with the impression of the pandemic. A even more 3,500 companies have applied to Cornwall council in just the last three times for a business aid grant – a fund established up by the federal government and administered by the council.   

Meanwhile, Torridge District Council (TDC) in Devonshire has processed extra than £17m in grants for companies influenced by the disaster.