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Eyop Sheffield city council is going to give us another£500, amazing

How much did you get before

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

How do you actually go about getting these grants ? ,its not as if you can phone your local council
everything is done online. I have had a look ,and to be honest im lost in all the jargon .

Think that's part of the plan.

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IDFIMH

On our Council web site there is a box called Covid support that opens all the different support schemes.

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Grandad,
old fart with no heart

If you're a grassroots driver in England then I doubt if there's much support available, unfortunately, apart from the SEISS grants for the self-employed from HM Government.

Some individual councils have offered support to grassroots drivers, but I'm guessing they're just a small minority of local authorities. And if your own council did offer such assistance, I'm sure you would have heard about it by now. And I suspect too that the application process wouldn't be particularly difficult.

But the fact that you're asking on here mabye suggests that there's nothing readily available from your council - if, for example, other drivers in your area were able to claim something then you'd probably know about it by now.

Don't take my word for it, though, but I wouldn't get your hopes up

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-if-yo ... ions-grant

Go to your MP and ask him why your council is not supporting your taxi trade when they have had the money from the gov
The Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG) provides local councils with grant funding to support closed businesses that do not directly pay business rates as well as businesses that do not have to close but which are impacted. In addition, larger grants can be given than those made through LRSG (Closed).

Local councils can determine which businesses to target and determine the amount of funding from the ARG.

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

Our council passed 200 grants this week including Additional restrictions grants. i know that several hackney owner/drivers applied but I have not yet heard the outcome. All I know is that our application was approved but I have not had confirmation of how much we have been awarded. i was told that the grant should be in our bank by Tuesday next week.

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Grandad,
old fart with no heart

I have had a look at my councils website it does indeed have a ARG grant available . It will pay out to self employed
poeple with fixed costs ,but i dont really have fixed costs as i pay my insurance ,breakdown cover and such upfront.
Though upto Christmas i used to pay £90 a week to my plate owner , but that is now stopped as im a plate owner
as i bought a plate on Christmas week.
I might have a word with other drivers and see if they know if grants are available to drivers.

Most Labour Councils are ignoring helping the trade, North Tyneside is one, Sunderland and Durham are paying drivers a one off grant of £500 from Monday 1st February.

Name and shame them ..... Put them them in the local papers ...... I am

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/taxi-drivers-risking-lives-27p-19712597


https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/li ... p-19712597

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

Labour seem to be trying to make political capital out of this [edited by admin]

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[quote="youbeenbusy"]I have had a look at my councils website it does indeed have a ARG grant available . It will pay out to self employed
poeple with fixed costs ,but i dont really have fixed costs as i pay my insurance ,breakdown cover and such upfront.
Though upto Christmas i used to pay £90 a week to my plate owner , but that is now stopped as im a plate owner
as i bought a plate on Christmas week.


You do have fixed costs

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

Just because you pay them up front does not mean that you can't claim for them pro rata.

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Grandad,
old fart with no heart

You tell him

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!