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Businesses eligible for a restart grant

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The examples below are not exhaustive, but indicate the types of businesses that can be supported under this scheme.

Non-essential retail (up to £6000)

  • Animal groomers
  • Antiques stores
  • Auction rooms
  • Betting offices
  • Book shops
  • Car auction
  • Car/caravan stores
  • Car showrooms
  • Car supermarkets
  • Car washes (standalone)
  • Carpet stores
  • Charity shops
  • Clothes shops
  • Departmental stores
  • Electronic goods and mobile phone shops
  • Florists
  • Furniture shops
  • Gift shops
  • Homeware shops
  • Jewellers
  • Make-up shops
  • Markets (other than livestock)
  • Photography studios
  • Plant nurseries
  • Sales/display/hiring
  • Sales kiosks
  • Sales offices
  • Showrooms, e.g. kitchen, bathroom, tile, glazing
  • Sites
  • Sofa shops
  • Stationery shops
  • Sweet shops
  • Tobacco and vape stores
  • Travel agents

Hospitality (up to £18000)

  • Cafes
  • Food courts
  • Public houses 
  • Restaurants
  • Roadside restaurants
  • Wine bars

Leisure (up to £18000)

  • Amusement arcades including adult gaming centres
  • Amusement parks
  • Animal attractions at farms
  • Arenas
  • Aquaria
  • Bingo halls
  • Botanical gardens
  • Bowling alleys
  • Casinos and gambling clubs
  • Cinemas
  • Circuses
  • Clubs & institutions
  • Concert halls
  • Conference centres
  • Events venues
  • Exhibition centres including for use as banquet halls and other events
  • Go kart rinks
  • Heritage railways
  • Hostess bars
  • Ice rinks
  • Indoor riding centres
  • Miniature railways
  • Model villages
  • Museums and art galleries
  • Night clubs & discotheques
  • Pavilions
  • Pleasure piers
  • Public halls
  • Roller skating rings
  • Sexual entertainment venues
  • Shisha bars, waterpipe consumption venues
  • Soft play centres or areas
  • Stately homes & historic houses
  • Theatres
  • Theme parks
  • Tourist attractions
  • Village halls & scout huts, cadet huts etc.
  • Visitor attractions at film studios
  • Wedding venues
  • Wildlife centres
  • Zoos & safari parks

Accommodation (up to £18000)

  • B&Bs
  • Boarding houses
  • Campsites
  • Canal boats or other vessels
  • Caravan parks
  • Caravan sites and pitches
  • Catered holiday homes
  • Chalet parks
  • Coaching inns
  • Country house hotels
  • Guest & boarding houses
  • Holiday apartments, cottages or bungalows
  • Holiday homes
  • Hostels
  • Hotels
  • Lodges

Personal care (up to £18000)

  • Barbers and groomers
  • Beauticians and aesthetics
  • Beauty salons
  • Hairdressing salons
  • Holistic therapy (reflexology, massage, acupuncture)
  • Massage centres and massage treatments
  • Nail salons
  • Spas, sauna and steam rooms
  • Tanning salons
  • Tattoo and piercing studios
  • Other non-surgical treatments

Gym and sport (up to £18000)

  • Cricket centres
  • Dance schools and centres
  • Dance studios
  • Driving ranges
  • Golf courses
  • Gymnasia/fitness suites
  • Outdoor adventure centres
  • Outdoor sports centres
  • Shooting and archery venues
  • Ski centres
  • Sports and leisure centres
  • Sports courts
  • Squash courts
  • Swimming pools
  • Tennis centres
  • Water sport centres

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