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, 256K) >
- Coronavirus: Find out what financial support you can get for your business >
Coronavirus: Guidance and support
Find information and support to help manage the impact of COVID-19
Financial support | Paying your employees
- Check if you can claim for your employees' wages through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- Check which employees you can put on furlough to use the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- Individuals you can claim for through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme who are not employees
- Steps to take before calculating your claim using the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- Calculate how much you can claim using the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- Claim for wages through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- Download a template if you're claiming for 100 or more employees through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- Changes to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme from July 2021
- Reporting employees' wages to HMRC when you've claimed through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- Furloughed workers to receive full parental leave entitlement
- Pay Job Retention Scheme grants back
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme - HMRC webinars
- Ask HMRC not to publish your Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme claim details
Financial support | Paying sick pay
Financial support | Paying tax
Financial support | Business rates relief
Financial support | Business support grants
- Bus Operator Financial Assistance Scheme
- COVID-19 Supply Chain Resilience Development Framework
- Film and TV Production Restart Scheme
- Closed to applications | £10,000 Small Business Support Grant Scheme
- Closed to applications | £25,000 Retail, Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Grant
- Closed to applications | Agriculture and horticulture support schemes
- Closed to applications | Artists Emergency Programme
- Closed to applications | Bed and Breakfast, Guest House and Guest Accommodation Scheme
- Closed to applications | Bed and Breakfast, Guest House, Guest Accommodation, Hostel and Bunk House Support Scheme
- Closed to applications | Bus Operator Financial Assistance Scheme
- Closed to applications | Business Support Grants online form for rental properties and/or properties with a Total NAV of £1,590 or below
- Closed to applications | Childcare Recovery Support Fund
- Closed to applications | Childcare Sustainability Fund
- Closed to applications | Childcare Temporary Closure Support Fund
- Closed to applications | COVID-19 Business and Financial Planning Grant
- Closed to applications | COVID-19 Business and Financial Planning Support Programme for tourism industry
- Closed to applications | COVID-19 Charities Fund
- Closed to applications | COVID-19 Charities Fund (second phase)
- Closed to applications | COVID-19 Childcare Support Scheme
- Closed to applications | COVID-19 Digital Selling Capability Grant
- Closed to applications | COVID-19 Energy Efficiency Capital Grant
- Closed to applications | COVID-19 Micro-business E-commerce Grant
- Closed to applications | COVID-19 Productive Investment Capital Grant
- Closed to applications | Covid Restrictions Business Support Scheme: Part A
- Closed to applications | Covid Restrictions Business Support Scheme: Part B
- Closed to applications | COVID Social Enterprise Fund
- Closed to applications | Eat Out to Help Out scheme
- Closed to applications | Hardship Fund for sports clubs and sporting organisations
- Closed to applications | Heritage Recovery Fund Northern Ireland
- Closed to applications | Individuals Emergency Resilience Programme
- Closed to applications | Large Tourism and Hospitality Business Support Scheme
- Closed to applications | Limited Company Director's Support Scheme
- Closed to applications | Localised Restrictions Support Scheme
- Closed to applications | NI Micro-business Hardship Fund
- Closed to applications | Organisations Emergency Programme for arts activity
- Closed to applications | Newly Self-Employed Support Scheme
- Closed to applications | Sign Language COVID-19 Support Fund
- Closed to applications | Sports Sustainability Fund
- Closed to applications | Stability and Renewal Programme for Organisations
- Closed to applications | Taxi Drivers Financial Assistance Scheme 2021
- Closed to applications | Travel Agents Coronavirus Financial Assistance Scheme 2021
- Closed to applications | Voluntary, Community and Social Economy Sector Covid Recovery Fund
- Closed to applications | Wet Pubs Business Support Scheme
Financial support | Self-employed
- Coronavirus: Support and advice for the self-employed
- Check if you can claim a grant through the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme
- Claim a grant through the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme
- How your circumstances affect eligibility for the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme
- How your trading conditions affect your eligibility for the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme
- How HMRC works out trading profits and non-trading income for the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme
- Tell HMRC and pay the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme grant back
Financial support | Small and medium-sized businesses
- General Export Facility - export finance support for small businesses
- Recovery Loan Scheme
- Closed to applications | Bounce Back Loan scheme
- Closed to applications |Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme - for small and medium-sized businesses
- Closed to applications | COVID-19 Equity Investment Fund
- Closed to applications | Future Fund for innovative businesses
- Closed to applications | Innovation Continuity Loans
Financial support | Large businesses
Financial support | Apprenticeships
Businesses closures and restrictions
Managing staff
- Coronavirus: Advice for employers with staff working in the UK on visas
- Coronavirus: Are you an employer who is actively recruiting?
- Coronavirus: Changes to right to work checks
- Coronavirus: Employer and service provider guidance from the Equality Commission
- Coronavirus: Employer referral testing for essential or key workers
- Coronavirus: Online isolation notes - providing proof of absence from work
- Coronavirus: Range of online learning available to upskill and retrain staff
- Coronavirus: Rules on carrying over annual leave relaxed
- Coronavirus: Six data protection steps on the use of personal information
Working safely
- Workplace COVID-19 testing for key sector employers
- Coronavirus: Working safely in different business settings
- Coronavirus: Workplace safety guidelines and social distancing
- Coronavirus: Guide to making workplaces safer and priority sector list
- Coronavirus: Example workplace risk assessment template for COVID-19
- Coronavirus: Working safely in tourism and hospitality
- Coronavirus: Guidance for the hospitality industry on maintaining records of staff, customers and visitors
- Coronavirus: Construction site management guidance
- Coronavirus: Food business guidance
- Coronavirus: Guidance for food businesses looking to operate during COVID-19 pandemic
- Coronavirus: How to manage social distancing in food businesses
- Coronavirus: Advice for community pharmacies in response to coronavirus regulation
- Coronavirus: Social distancing in public spaces
- Coronavirus: Safer transport guidance for operators
Driving and transport
Property
- Coronavirus: Code of practice for the commercial property sector
- Coronavirus: Extension of notice to quit period for landlords
- Coronavirus: Guidance for private rented sector landlords and tenants
- Coronavirus: Hold on water bills and tariff increases for businesses
- Coronavirus: Protection from eviction for commercial tenants
- Coronavirus: Temporary changes to major planning application process
Trading internationally
Volunteering and offering help
NI Executive strategy and regulations
- Coronavirus: The Executive's pathway out of restrictions
- Coronavirus: Extension of notice to quit period for landlords
- Coronavirus: Protection from eviction for commercial tenants
- Coronavirus: Automatic renewal of taxi licences
- Coronavirus: Temporary changes to major planning application process
- Coronavirus: Waste sector temporary measures
- Coronavirus: Changes to insolvency law
Other support
- Coronavirus: Advice if you're experiencing cashflow pressures
- Coronavirus: Business support organisations offering advice and guidance
- Coronavirus: Enterprise Relief Fund for young entrepreneurs
- Coronavirus: Guidance for the charity sector
- Coronavirus: Support for government suppliers impacted by COVID-19
- Coronavirus: Support for research related to COVID-19
- Coronavirus: Innovation Continuity Loans
- Coronavirus: Sustainable Innovation Fund
Coronavirus: Other business support information
Find advice on key business areas that you may need guidance on as you manage the current challenges.
- Business continuity and crisis management >
- Managing financial difficulty >
- Change an employee's terms of employment >
- Redundancy and lay-offs >
- Redundancy and short-time working >
- Employers' responsibilities when closing down a business >
- Employees working from home >
- Flexible working: the law and best practice >
- Liability insurance for your business >
- Assess the health and safety risks in your business >