Extended Self-Employment Income Support Scheme The government has extended the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme and confirmed next steps for furloughing. If you’re eligible for the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme, you will be able to claim a second and final grant in August worth 70 per cent of your average monthly trading profits. This will be paid out in a single instalment covering three months’ worth of profits, and capped at £6,570 in total. From 1 July 2020, businesses will be given the flexibility to bring furloughed employees back part time under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

Extended Self-Employment Income Support Scheme

The government has extended the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme and confirmed next steps for furloughing.

If you’re eligible for the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme, you will be able to claim a second and final grant in August worth 70 per cent of your average monthly trading profits. This will be paid out in a single instalment covering three months’ worth of profits, and capped at £6,570 in total.

From 1 July 2020, businesses will be given the flexibility to bring furloughed employees back part time under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

Cash and coronavirus spread.

Can you avoid using cash? This NHS video gives advice on using cash machines to get money out - think how many people have touched those keys in the past few hours.

Official agencies  are asking people to think about using contactless cards rather than cash. Cash is a really good way of spreading germs. Contactless card's aren't perfect, but official advice is to think about using contactless rather than cash. You will see places like the Leisure Centre now have signs up saying -  please use contactless rather than cash.

Every little helps in containing the spread.

Doing up Millside park and playzone

Members of the Focus Team on Yate Town Council have been working with officers to raise cash to add a new multi play unit at Millside , and expand the sculpture trail in the park with more wood carvings and interpretation boards to extend play and help children to learn about their natural environment through play..

This will replace the carvings vandalised last summer.
We are delighted to announce we have now got £45,155 so we can go ahead with the project).

(You may have seen reports of this in the newspaper a couple of weeks ago, but that was a press release from someone who had not been involved in the grant process, and just heard we had an application in and we were likely to get the money.) Now it has been confirmed.

We are also working to raise the money to put in a grit or gravel path through the park, as particularly at the Goose Green Way end, it gets extremely muddy.