Help for businesses
Lancaster City Council grants and support
Government funding, grants and support
- Free bookkeeping courses and one year's free accounts software subscription
- Financial assistance from the government
- Find out what financial support schemes you may be eligible for
- Job Support Scheme
- Self-employment grant
- Kickstart Scheme
Advice
- Latest government advice and restrictions
- Covid Safe scheme for retail and hospitality businesses
- Street cafe licensing (for food and drink outlets)
- Business ventilation
If you would like more information on ventilation or would like to purchase a C02 monitor at a greatly subsidised cost of £20 to help monitor the adequacy of ventilation within your premises, please email environmentalhealth@lancaster.gov.uk
Following the Government announcement in November 2021 about the re-introduction of facemasks in shops and on public transport, Lancaster City Council have a range of resources available to help businesses and customers comply with these requirements.
You can download signage from your business ( see below) and we can also provide you with boxes of face coverings. Please email environmentalhealth@lancaster.gov.uk for further information or supplies.
Signage and posters - Free Materials for Businesses
We have created a suite of free materials for businesses to use to help keep their workplace, staff and customers safer. Feel free to download the files and use on social media or print for display in venues.
Living With Covid Materials
- New Facemask rules Nov 21
- Be Covid safe while having a drink poster
- Covid Pass information leaflet
- Lateral Flow Collection poster
- Be Wise and Sanitise poster
- We kindly ask you to wear a facemask poster
- Covid advice for events leaflet
"Freedom Day" Materials
- Empty Belly Covid Rules (PDF, 29KB)
- Collective rules (PDF, 47KB)
- Continue to wear a mask (PDF, 32KB)
- Free covid tests (PDF, 32KB)
- Covid vaccine (PDF, 36KB)
- Test, jab, be careful (PDF, 37KB)
- Wash hands (PDF, 33KB)
- Be cautious (PDF, 34KB)
- Wear face masks in crowded areas (PDF, 33KB)
Archived materials
Business webinars
We like to keep businesses across the district up-to-date from HSE information to Covid safety information through a variety of ways, including hosting webinars, so that businesses get the opportunity to get the information they need, but also the opportunity to ask questions.
There is a chance to catch up on the webinars via the links below:
Update on Covid safety in the workplace - Ventilation
Update on business support measures - 17/12/2022
General business support
The government has published guidance on working safely during Coronavirus. The guidance covers the following business areas:
- Construction and other outdoor work
- Factories, plants and warehouses
- Labs and research facilities
- Offices and contact centres
- Working in other people's homes
- Restaurants, pubs, bars and takeaway services
- Shops and branches
- Vehicles
Business support team
Our dedicated Business Support Team are here to offer advice and support to business owners through the Covid pandemic and beyond.
Lancaster City Council has developed a package of measures so business owners have the confidence to reopen in a manner that is safe not only for customers, but for their staff and themselves. Some of this work has been funded by the European Regional Development Fund.
