{"id":609,"date":"2021-12-09T09:28:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T09:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/funeral-industry\/?p=609"},"modified":"2021-12-09T09:28:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T09:28:22","slug":"covid-19-business-ventilation-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/funeral-industry\/2021\/12\/09\/covid-19-business-ventilation-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 : Business ventilation funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Business Ventilation Fund\u00a0is\u00a0now open to applications and will remain open until\u00a031\u00a0March 2022. The Business Ventilation Fund will provide\u00a0funding to help small and medium sized businesses improve their ventilation, and help reduce the spread of COVID-19. The total funding package is worth \u00a325 million, and was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/news\/improving-ventilation-to-tackle-covid-19\/\">announced by the First Minister in September 2021<\/a>.\u00a0Businesses can claim up to \u00a32,500 per eligible premises to recover the costs of carrying out work to improve ventilation and air quality.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/publications\/coronavirus-covid-19-business-ventilation-fund\/pages\/overview\/\">guidance<\/a> sets out the eligibility criteria, costs which can be claimed back and the application process.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In order to be considered for this funding businesses must meet the eligibility criteria. Eligible sectors that may be able to claim funding for eligible costs to improve their ventilation. It is for a local authority, on behalf of the Scottish Ministers, to determine if a business meets the description and further information may be requested by them, where necessary, to determine eligibility of applications. This could include the funeral sector under community, function and multi-purpose event venues as indoor event spaces that are available for rent or use by members of the community specifically for the purposes of hosting personal events such as funerals. Funeral directors and crematoriums would be eligible to apply to the fund so long as they meet the other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/publications\/coronavirus-covid-19-business-ventilation-fund\/pages\/eligibility\/\">eligibility criteria<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Business Ventilation Fund\u00a0is\u00a0now open to applications and will remain open until\u00a031\u00a0March 2022. The Business Ventilation Fund will provide\u00a0funding to help small and medium sized businesses improve their ventilation, and help reduce the spread of COVID-19. The total funding package is worth \u00a325 million, and was\u00a0announced by the First Minister in September 2021.\u00a0Businesses can claim&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>COVID-19 : Business ventilation funding - Funeral Industry News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/funeral-industry\/2021\/12\/09\/covid-19-business-ventilation-funding\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COVID-19 : Business ventilation funding - Funeral Industry News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Business Ventilation Fund\u00a0is\u00a0now open to applications and will remain open until\u00a031\u00a0March 2022. 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