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Coronavirus updates: Support for your business
Coronavirus: Business support
Find out how to access the support that has been made available to NI businesses and employees - who is eligible and how to apply.
- Coronavirus: Support for businesses and employees in Northern Ireland - a quick guide (PDF, 228K) >
- Coronavirus: Find out what financial support you can get for your business >
Coronavirus: Frequently asked questions
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Coronavirus: News
Find information and support to help manage the impact of COVID-19
4 June 2020
3 June 2020
- Coronavirus: Workplace safety guidelines and social distancing > [Updated]
- Coronavirus: NI Micro-business Hardship Fund > [Updated]
2 June 2020
- Coronavirus: Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme - what is changing? >
- Coronavirus: Self-Employed Income Support Scheme extended >
- Coronavirus: Support and advice for the self-employed > [Updated]
- Coronavirus: Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme - HMRC webinars > [Updated]
- Coronavirus: COVID-19 Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme – HMRC webinar > [Updated]
- Coronavirus: Self-employment Income Support Scheme - HMRC webinar > [Updated]
1 June 2020
- Coronavirus: Reopening plan for hotels and other tourist accommodation >
- Coronavirus: Organisations Emergency Programme for arts activity > [Updated]
- Coronavirus: Check if you can claim a grant through the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme > [Updated]
Coronavirus: Claim a grant through the Self-employment Income Support Scheme > [Updated] - Coronavirus: Reporting employees' wages to HMRC when you've claimed through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme >
- Coronavirus: Claim for wages under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme > [Updated]
- Coronavirus: Check if you can claim for your employees' wages through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme > [Updated]
- Coronavirus: Check which employees you can put on furlough to use the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme > [Updated]
- Coronavirus: Work out 80% of your employees' wages to claim through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme > [Updated]
Week beginning 25 May 2020
- Coronavirus: Executive sets out plans for retail to reopen from June >
- Coronavirus: Outline plan for economic recovery >
- Coronavirus: £25,000 Retail, Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Grant >
- Coronavirus: Driving licence extensions and DVA service update >
- Coronavirus: Get ready to apply for the NI Micro-business Hardship Fund >
- Coronavirus: Emergency support package for aquaculture sector >
- Coronavirus: Claim back Statutory Sick Pay paid to your employees due to coronavirus (COVID-19) >
- Coronavirus: Check if you can claim back Statutory Sick Pay paid to employees due to coronavirus >
- Coronavirus: Support and advice for small businesses >
Week beginning 18 May 2020
- Coronavirus: Working safely during coronavirus >
- Coronavirus: Working safely during COVID-19 webinars >
- Coronavirus: Guidance for food businesses looking to operate during COVID-19 pandemic >
- Coronavirus: How to manage social distancing in food businesses >
- Coronavirus: Food business guidance >
- Coronavirus: £25,000 Retail, Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Grant >
- Coronavirus: Claim for wages under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme >
- Coronavirus: Businesses to get support through Trade Credit Insurance guarantee >
- Coronavirus: £10,000 Small Business Support Grant Scheme >
- Coronavirus: Business Support Grants online form for rental properties and/or properties with a Total NAV of £1,590 or below >
- Coronavirus: Rates support for businesses >
- Coronavirus: Future Fund for innovative businesses >
- Coronavirus: Apply for the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme >
- Coronavirus: Enterprise Relief Fund for young entrepreneurs >
- Coronavirus: Employer referral testing for essential or key workers >
- Coronavirus: Workplace safety guidance and priority sector list >
- Coronavirus: Business closures and restrictions >
- Coronavirus: COVID-19 Childcare Support Scheme >
- Coronavirus: Support for Innovate UK award recipients >
Week beginning 11 May 2020
- Coronavirus: Check which employees you can put on furlough to use the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme >
- Coronavirus: Check if you can claim for your employees' wages through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme >
- Coronavirus: Artists Emergency Programme >
- Coronavirus: Five-stage recovery plan published by Executive >
- Coronavirus: Furlough scheme extended until 31 October 2020 >
Week beginning 4 May 2020
- Coronavirus: Guidance to businesses wanting to offer services and volunteers >
- Coronavirus: Land & Property Services office and phone line closures >
- Coronavirus: Guidance on manufacturing PPE and hand cleaning products >
- Coronavirus: 20 May deadline approaching on local grant schemes >
- Coronavirus: Skills Focus Programme now fully funded to help local employers >
- Coronavirus: International Trade webinars >
- Coronavirus: Apply for the Bounce Back Loan scheme >
- Coronavirus: Apply for the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme >
- Coronavirus: Apply for the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme - for small and medium-sized businesses >
Week beginning 27 April 2020
- Coronavirus: Update on tax policy consultations >
- Coronavirus: Waste sector temporary measures >
- Coronavirus: Temporary changes to major planning application process >
- Coronavirus: Advice for employers with staff working in the UK on visas >
- Coronavirus: Exporting personal protective equipment >
- Coronavirus: Extension of notice to quit period for landlords >
Week beginning 20 April 2020
- Coronavirus: Furloughed workers to receive full parental leave entitlement >
- Coronavirus: Rules on carrying over annual leave relaxed >
- Coronavirus: COVID-19 - Apprenticeships guidance for employers >
- Coronavirus: Reporting payments in PAYE Real Time Information from the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme >
- Coronavirus: Hardship Fund for sports clubs and sporting organisations >
- Coronavirus: WIPO launches COVID-19 patent search functionality >
- Coronavirus: Companies House support for businesses hit by COVID-19 >
- Coronavirus: Future Fund for innovative businesses >
Week beginning 13 April 2020
- Coronavirus: Guidance for private rented sector landlords and tenants >
- Coronavirus: Hold on water bills and tariff increases for businesses >
- Coronavirus: Automatic renewal of taxi licences >
- Coronavirus: Eligibility date for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme extended to 19 March >
- Coronavirus: Calculating total income and trading profits for the Self-employment Income Support Scheme >
Week beginning 6 April 2020
- Coronavirus: Business support organisations offering advice and guidance >
- Coronavirus: Security agencies issue COVID-19 cyber threat update >
- Coronavirus: Guidance for the charity sector >
- Coronavirus: Support for research related to COVID-19 >
- Coronavirus: Protection from eviction for commercial tenants >
- Coronavirus: Moving goods through customs >
- Coronavirus: Register if your business can provide services or PPE supplies >
- Coronavirus: Customs authorisations during the coronavirus >
- Coronavirus: Apply for the COVID-19 Corporate Financing Facility for large companies >
- Coronavirus: £1.5 million support package for fishing industry >
Week beginning 30 March 2020
- Coronavirus: Call for rapid sanitising technology for ambulances >
- Coronavirus: Changes made to the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme >
- Coronavirus: Construction site management guidance >
Coronavirus: Guidance for UK businesses trading internationally > - Coronavirus: Temporary change to carrier bag law >
- Coronavirus: Emergency Volunteering Leave >
- Coronavirus: NI Budget 2020-21 includes further rates reduction >
- Coronavirus: Changes to right to work checks >
- Coronavirus: Can your business offer COVID-19 support? >
- Coronavirus: UKRI open call for R&I ideas to address COVID-19 >
- Coronavirus: Call for businesses to help make NHS ventilators >
- Coronavirus: Advice for community pharmacies in response to coronavirus regulation >
- Coronavirus: Drivers' hours rules >
Week beginning 23 March 2020
- Coronavirus: Deferred VAT payments >
- Coronavirus: Tax helpline to support businesses affected by COVID-19 >
- Coronavirus: Advice for hotel and other accommodation providers >
- Coronavirus: Support for government suppliers impacted by COVID-19 >
- Coronavirus: Are you an employer who is actively recruiting? >
- Coronavirus: Online isolation notes - providing proof of absence from work >
Week beginning 16 March 2020
- Coronavirus: Deferred Self-Assessment payments >
- Coronavirus: Summary of additional support announced for businesses and the self-employed >
- Coronavirus: Tourism NI business support helpline >
- Coronavirus: Advice if you're experiencing cashflow pressures >
- Coronavirus: Support and advice for the self-employed >
- Coronavirus: Information if your company cannot file accounts with Companies House on time >
- Coronavirus: Industry guidance on limiting the spread >
- Coronavirus (COVID-19): Advice for businesses >
Coronavirus: Guidance
Find advice on key business areas that you may need guidance on as you manage the current challenges.