COVID-19 Courtley West Bulletin

Posted by on Mar 22, 2020 in coronavirus, covid-19, small business, SME | 0 comments

COVID-19

We’re in this together and we’re here to support you through this crisis.

We’d like to reassure you that we have taken steps to ensure we can operate through this difficult time.

Our IT infrastructure is setup so we can work from anywhere with an internet connection, you can still call us and email us. We are geared up for video conferencing which we can host, to ensure our relationship with you is barely affected.

The only change at our end that you will see is that we’re not offering ‘in person’ meetings at this time and that if you would like to drop records off at the office please ensure this is agreed in advance.

There is no clear timescale for when this disruption will end, so we all need to adapt and work through this together.

The government has released a series of unprecedented measures to support business.

You can read more about these here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-employers-and-businesses-about-covid-19/covid-19-support-for-businesses

This includes a package of measures to support businesses including:

  • a Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
  • deferring VAT and Income Tax payments
  • a Statutory Sick Pay relief package for SMEs
  • a 12-month business rates holiday for all retail, hospitality, leisure and nursery businesses in England
  • small business grant funding of £10,000 for all business in receipt of small business rate relief or rural rate relief
  • grant funding of £25,000 for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses with property with a rateable value between £15,000 and £51,000
  • the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme offering loans of up to £5 million for SMEs through the British Business Bank
  • a new lending facility from the Bank of England to help support liquidity among larger firms, helping them bridge coronavirus disruption to their cash flows through loans
  • the HMRC Time To Pay Scheme

If you are an employee, you can read more here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-employers-and-businesses-about-covid-19/covid-19-guidance-for-employees

This is a difficult time for everyone, we are here with you and you can trust us to do our very best to support you through these unprecedented circumstances.