Be Business Smart: Cut Cost and Carbon Virtual Exhibition
North East Lincolnshire Council’s Smart Energy Greater Lincolnshire programme has partnered up with the Lincolnshire Chamber of Commerce, to provide businesses with a virtual exhibition. It will highlight and demonstrate the latest technology and approaches to allow companies to innovate and adopt changes to save time, money and contribute towards the fight against climate change.
The ‘Be Business Smart: Cut Cost and Carbon’ Virtual Exhibition will take place on 30th September 2020 and will also be full of insights, inspiration, helpful advice and 1-2-1 support.
Aimed at SME’s across all sectors in Greater Lincolnshire, the event intends to provide a forum to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy through learning forums, knowledge sharing activities, panel discussions and case studies.
For more information please see here.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport have published guidance that pulls together the various schemes under the £1.57bn Cultural Recovery Fund that is open for applications at the moment. They include:
- Arts Council England Grants- £500m grants for cultural organisations that are at risk of failure because of COVID-19 and who need funding of up to £3m
- Culture Recovery Fund for Independent Cinemas - £30m for independent cinemas who provide a year round film programme, that are at risk of failure because of COVID-19
- Arts Council England Repayable Finance - £270m repayable finance for cultural organisations that are at risk of failure because of COVID-19 and who need funding of over £3m
- Historic England - £50m heritage stimulus fund (capital) to restart vital construction and maintenance projects on heritage sites, stalled due to the restrictions caused by COVID-19
- Arts Council England Capital - capital expenditure funding for existing Arts Council capital grant holders who can demonstrate a capital funding shortfall due to COVID-19.
Read the guidance here.
If you are a business or organisation which has been advised to collect customer, staff and visitor details a customer logging toolkit is now available here.
The UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, has published a strategy that seeks to encourage and support excellent design in innovation. The document, ‘Design in Innovation strategy, 2020-2024’, recognises that the UK is a world-leader in design excellence and there are great opportunities for business to realise more value by tapping into that capability and embedding design within their processes and culture.
Yet there are barriers to progress. It is not good enough for an idea to be technically feasible, it must also be desirable and fit-for-purpose. To address this, Innovate UK will launch a programme that will meet business need under four themes:
- Making the case for investment in design
- Reducing the cost of entry for those new to design
- Helping businesses access the best design talent
- Helping businesses maximise the value contribution of design
Further details here.
135 at risk grassroots music venues have been saved by emergency funding as part of the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund
- £2.25m funding topped up by more than £1 million to help more venues in need of support to survive
- Recipients of the fund include The Troubadour in London, where Adele and Ed Sheeran performed in the early days of their career, as well as The Jacaranda in Liverpool, where The Beatles played early rehearsals and one of their first gigs
- Arts, film and culture organisations encouraged to get their bids in for a share of £880 million worth of grants through Arts Council England, the British Film Institute, Historic England and the National Lottery Heritage Fund
The ban on evictions is extended for another 4 weeks and new 6 month notice periods will be in place until at least 31 March 2021.
Once eviction hearings restart, the judiciary will carefully prioritise the most serious cases including those involving anti-social behaviour and domestic abuse. Further details here.
New figures show that more than 64 million meals have been enjoyed by diners across the country since the launch of the government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme.
Upward trend in meals claimed for shows millions continue to flock to eat out to support 1.8 million jobs in the hospitality sector – which has been hit hard by coronavirus. Further details here.
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