{"id":3847,"date":"2020-12-03T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3847"},"modified":"2020-12-03T12:40:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T12:40:01","slug":"coronavirus-pubs-in-tier-two-and-three-areas-set-to-receive-new-1000-grant-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/coronavirus-pubs-in-tier-two-and-three-areas-set-to-receive-new-1000-grant-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Pubs in tier two and three areas set to receive new \u00a31,000 grant funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pubs that principally serve alcohol in tier two and three areas are set to receive additional financial support over the Christmas period following an announcement by the Government.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to Government guidelines, pubs that do not serve \u2018substantial meals\u2019 are not allowed to reopen if they are based in a region which currently has a high number of coronavirus cases.<\/p>\n<p>But a new \u00a31,000 grant for \u201cwet-led pubs\u201d will support affected establishments during the busy festive period.<\/p>\n<p>The one-off payment for December will be paid on top of the existing \u00a33,000 monthly cash grant for businesses forced to close due to local or national restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>This is in addition to existing measures intended to secure jobs and save businesses, such as the extension of the furlough scheme and the business rates holiday until March 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \u201cPubs are at the heart of communities across the country and they have been among the businesses which have suffered the most during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we can\u2019t make up for all the trade they will lose over Christmas, I hope this new \u00a31000 grant \u2013 on top of the furlough,\u00a0VAT\u00a0and business rates relief and existing grants, goes some way to help them weather the economic storm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Businesses can apply for the top-up payment through their local authority in the same manner that they apply for the existing COVID-19 grant funding schemes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For help and advice, contact our expert team today.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pubs that principally serve alcohol in tier two and three areas are set to receive additional financial support over the Christmas period following an announcement by the Government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30,79,112,101,106,99,80,81,73,44,86,85,25,4,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3848,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions\/3848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}