Types of Business the Restart Grant is available to
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Non-essential retail
Grant amounts are available between £2,667 and £6,000, depending on the rateable value of your premises.
Non-essential retail businesses include:
- animal groomers
- antiques stores
- auction rooms
- betting offices
- book shops
- car auctions
- car showrooms
- car supermarkets
- car washes (standalone)
- car or caravan sales, display or hiring sites
- 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 kiosks
- sales offices
- showrooms, for example kitchens, bathrooms, tiles and glazing
- sofa shops
- stationery shops
- sweet shops
- tobacco and vape stores
- travel agents
Definition of non-essential retail
A business that is open to the public and is used mainly or wholly for the purposes of selling or hiring products or services, where the primary purpose of the products or services is not necessary to the health and wellbeing of the public.
Hospitality
Grant amounts are available between £8,000 and £18,000, depending on the rateable value of your premises.
Hospitality businesses include:
- cafes
- food courts
- public houses and pub restaurants
- restaurants
- roadside restaurants
- wine bars
Definition of a hospitality business
A business whose main function is to provide a venue for the consumption and sale of food and drink.
Personal care
Grant amounts are available between £8,000 and £18,000, depending on the rateable value of your premises.
Personal care businesses include:
- barbers and groomers
- beauticians and aesthetics
- beauty salons
- hairdressing salons
- holistic therapy (reflexology, massage, acupuncture)
- massage centres and massage treatments
- nail salons
- other non-surgical treatment providers
- spas, saunas and steam rooms
- tanning salons
- tattoo and piercing studios
Definition of a personal care business
A business that provides a service, treatment or activity for the purposes of personal beauty, hair, grooming, body care and aesthetics, and wellbeing.
Leisure
Grant amounts are available between £8,000 and £18,000, depending on the rateable value of your premises.
Leisure businesses include:
- amusement arcades including adult gaming centres
- amusement parks
- animal attractions at farms
- aquariums
- arenas
- bingo halls
- botanical gardens
- bowling alleys
- casinos and gambling clubs
- cinemas
- circus clubs and institutions
- concert halls
- conference centres
- events venues
- exhibition centres including for use as banquet halls
- go kart rinks
- heritage railways
- hostess bars
- ice rinks
- indoor riding centres
- miniature railways
- model villages
- museums and art galleries
- night clubs and discotheques
- pavilions
- pleasure piers
- public halls
- roller skating rings
- sexual entertainment venues
- shisha bars and waterpipe consumption venues
- soft play centres or areas
- stately homes and historic houses
- theatres
- theme parks
- tourist attractions
- village halls, scout huts and cadet huts
- visitor attractions at film studios
- wedding venues
- wildlife centres
- zoos and safari parks
Definition of a leisure business
A business that provides opportunities, experiences and facilities, in particular for culture, recreation, entertainment, celebratory events, days and nights out, betting and gaming.
Accommodation
Grant amounts are available between £8,000 and £18,000, depending on the rateable value of your premises.
Accommodation businesses include:
- bed and breakfasts
- 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 and boarding houses
- holiday homes, apartments, cottages or bungalows
- hostels
- hotels
- lodges
Definition of an accommodation business
A business whose main lodging provision is used for holiday, travel and other purposes.
Gym and sport
Grant amounts are available between £8,000 and £18,000, depending on the rateable value of your premises.
Gym and sport businesses include:
- cricket centres
- dance schools and centres
- dance studios
- driving ranges
- golf courses
- gyms and 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
Definition of a gym and sport business
A commercial establishment where physical exercise or training is conducted on an individual basis or group basis, using exercise equipment or open floor space with or without instruction. Or where individual and group sporting, athletic and physical activities are participated in competitively or recreationally.