Norwich City Council know that this is an incredibly difficult time for small businesses in the city, and they want to do everything they can as quickly as possible to support them and help with cashflow problems.
Nearly 800 Norwich businesses have now received their government grants, equating to nearly £14 million, which is over a third of the allocated funding and more are being processed daily. By the end of the week ending 17 April, they will have paid out 40 per cent of their funding. They are on track to meet the government target of paying out all business grants by the end of April.
Allocating funding quickly is essential and they’re working flat out to do this, but they have to strike a balance between speed and accuracy.
Of course for the businesses still waiting for grants this is incredibly frustrating. Please be assured that if you’ve filled in an online small grants form, Norwich City Council have that form, and will contact you directly if there is a problem or if they need any more information to process the payment.
If you’ve not yet filled in a small grants form, please do so here.
They understand that there are frustrations with the lack of contact from the council to individual businesses about the status of their grant. This is a brand new process for them which they had to roll out really quickly and they are prioritising processing grants, so please bear with them.
Norwich City Council have prepared some FAQs, which hopefully answer some questions you may have.