Business

• Webinar will help textiles businesses become covid-19 secure

  13 July 2020

  3 minute read

  A FREE webinar is being held tomorrow to help fashion and textiles businesses learn more about making their workplaces covid-19 secure.

• City Mayor lobbies Government for extra business support

  9 July 2020

  2 minute read

  LEICESTER’S City Mayor is lobbying Government to provide more support to local businesses after it emerged the Government does not intend to provide extra financial support during the city’s extended lockdown.

• Council-led taskforce tackles issues in city factories

  6 July 2020

  2 minute read

  LEICESTER City Council is working with partners across the city to tackle issues with factory working highlighted by the current coronavirus crisis.

• Deadline approaches for business grants

  25 June 2020

  3 minute read

  BUSINESSES and charities have less than a week to apply for a share of Government money aimed at helping those whose trade has been badly hit by the coronavirus lockdown.

• Up to 400 small businesses and charities yet to claim Government grant help

  9 June 2020

  2 minute read

  AROUND 400 small businesses and charities across Leicester who are eligible for Government grants of £10,000 to £25,000 have still not claimed the financial help.

• Discretionary Business Grant application process opens

  8 June 2020

  3 minute read

  BUSINESSES and charities are being invited to apply for a share of a new pot of Government money aimed at helping those whose trade has been badly hit by the coronavirus lockdown.

• Action taken over busy shop flouting coronavirus regulations

  3 June 2020

  2 minute read

  BUSINESSES are being reminded of their responsibility to follow correct Government coronavirus regulations to protect staff and customers following an incident in which a city centre cosmetics shop was serving people inside despite not being allowed to do so.

• Businesses urged to come forward to claim financial help

  27 April 2020

  2 minute read

  BUSINESSES across Leicester are being urged to come forward to get financial help from an £85million Government fund designed to help them during the coronavirus pandemic.

• Milestone for council-led transformation of Waterside as work begins on new offices

  27 April 2020

  3 minute read

  THE ambitious redevelopment of Leicester’s once-neglected Waterside area has reached another major milestone, as work begins on the first new office complex in Frog Island.

• New Covid-19 redundancy and recruitment service for Leicester and Leicestershire

  21 April 2020

  3 minute read

  A NEW service has been launched to support people in Leicester and Leicestershire who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus outbreak.

• City gets £85million package of help for businesses

  2 April 2020

  3 minute read

  BUSINESSES in Leicester which are struggling due to loss of trade caused by the coronavirus pandemic will be able to access a package of financial help totalling £85million.

• Shisha café fined for breaching smokefree regulations

  20 February 2020

  2 minute read

  A COMPANY and director behind a city centre shisha café have been fined £6,000 and ordered to pay over £2,000 in costs after being convicted of a series of smoke-free offences.