CORONAVIRUS: Small business support

Published Wednesday, 1st April 2020

Hartlepool Borough Council is calling on all businesses eligible to receive small business grant funding, or the retail, hospitality and leisure grant funding to respond to a letter they’ve been sent.

The Council has written to around 1,500 businesses who are eligible to receive small business grant funding – in total this will provide support of nearly £18 million to Hartlepool businesses.

Payments will be processed by the Council as soon as they receive forms and in particular the necessary bank account details.

For example, where we have already received a reply, payments will be processed tomorrow (Thursday 2 April) and businesses will receive money in their account by Monday 6 April.

Chris Little, Director of Finance and Policy at Hartlepool Borough Council, said: “We’ve written to all eligible businesses but unfortunately we haven’t received forms back from some.

“It isn’t too late to get in touch and I would encourage businesses that haven’t yet responded to fill out an e-form at www.hartlepool.gov.uk/smallbusinessgrant

“We really want to process payments as quickly as we can, but if we don’t have some basic information the Government requires – in particular bank account details – we are unable to release the funds.”