You could be eligible for a grant of up to £18,000.

We are aware that there are still eligible businesses in the borough that haven’t yet applied and we don’t want them to miss out.

Please help us to spread the word!

• Did your business have to close during Lockdown but you were not eligible for Local Restrictions Support Grants or Restart Grants?
• Were you able to stay open during lockdown but your business has been badly affected by the closure of other businesses?

Eligible businesses who applied for earlier rounds of the Additional Restrictions Grant will be automatically paid and don’t need to reapply.

Applications for this criteria close on 30 June 2021. 

Book your space for Junes Learning Lunch on Wednesday 16 June 12-1pm. Hear from our great speaker Reigate resident Matt Burgess from Hurt Liqueur. As part of our Local Business Heroes themed events, Matt will be telling us his story of how a walk in the Surrey Hills during lockdown inspired his new business.

• 15 June 10.00-11.00 Enterprise Nation - Small business meet up Crawley, Redhill, Reigate & Gatwick Book your space 
• 16 June 10-10.30 Companies House Webinar - Choosing the right legal structure for your business  Book yourspace
• 16 June 12.00-13.00 Reigate & Banstead Learning Lunch with local business hero, Matt Burgess, from Hurt Liqueur, talking about finding new markets, local opportunities and building your businesses.  Book your space
• 23 June 10.00-10.30 Companies House Webinar - Starting and running a limited company Book your space Book your space
• 24 June 09.30  RH Bitesized with Dan - Book now 
• 30 June 10.00-10.30 Companies House Webinar  - Thinking of starting a community interest company? Find out how 
• 30 June 10.00-13.00 Surrey County Council - Good mental health is good business sense Find out more
• 10 July 10.00-17.00 Love Reigate Market, Tunnel Road with

        - Local businesses

        - Food & drink stalls

        - Arts and Crafts 

        - Live entertainment

Reigate:

• Welcome to Gail's Bakery now open on the high street. 
• Welcome The Gardent, a vegan and veggie cafe in Lesborne Road.
• Congratulations to Nourish, Grow Cook enjoy  who is now stocked with Able and Cole, have launched a range of raw bars stocked at Planet Organic, and have doubled their listings at Ocado.

Banstead:

• Brush Hair design will be moving premises to 83 High Street from 14 June.

Redhill

• Congratulations to Pleese cakes, Redhill, who have three mini me Pleesecakes in all four of the new, revolutionary Amazon Fresh UK stores. 

This five-minute survey has been developed by Redhill & Reigate Climate Action Group to understand the appetite of local businesses to "build back better", creating a greener future for the borough while realising business opportunities. Through the survey, they hope to help catalyse change through initial discussions, identifying best practice and making connections where appropriate.

Find out how to pay VAT payments deferred between 20 March and 30 June 2020. You can pay now or join the VAT deferral new payment scheme until 21 June 2021.

We are lucky to have some fabulous independent businesses in the area, so why not show them your support by nominating them for the Muddy Stilettos Awards 2021.  

Nominations are now open and  you can nominate your favourite business in each of the 27 categories, including:

• Bar
• Beauty salon
• Fitness instructor
• Gift shop
• Hair salon
• Cafe
• Destination pub
• Best local food/drink producer
• Best new Covid Biz

Are you looking to grow your business? Grants of £2k to £170k can be awarded to start-up & established business. It is a match-fund, meaning a business agrees to pay, or raise capital for 60% of their expenditure cost and Invest4 Fund will agree to pay the remaining 40%.

Registration is now open to join a group-buying scheme for solar panels and battery storage. Called Solar Together Reigate & Banstead Borough Council have teamed up with Surrey County Council and independent experts in group-buying, iChoosr Ltd, to make it easier for residents and small-scale business projects to purchase high-quality solar panels for their homes at a competitive price. Register for free, and without obligation, before 29 June to take part.

Businesses are being encouraged to hire apprentices of any age with new incentive payments of £3,000.  This is in addition to the £1,000 employers already receive for hiring an apprentice:

• aged 16 to 18 years old
• under 25 with an education, health and care plan or who has been in the care of their local authority

To receive the full payment, the apprenticeship must last for at least one year

You will receive £3,000 for new apprentices of any age who have an employment start date of 1 April 2021 to 30 September 2021.

They must have an apprenticeship start date of 1 April 2021 to 30 November 2021.

What can you use this payment for?

The payment is different to apprenticeship levy funds, so you can spend it on anything to support your organisation’s costs. such as uniforms, your apprentice’s travel or their salary. You do not have to pay it back.

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