COVID-19 Business Impact and Support

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Growth Platform is the City Region’s Growth Company, established by Liverpool City Region LEP and the Mayoral Combined Authority to support local business, and we are working in partnership with our business support organisations to help those businesses affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic.

We are in dialogue with Government imploring them to make the initiatives and funding for business, set out in the budget and subsequently, available immediately to help businesses who are already being severely affected. We are also developing local responses based on business need and feedback.

We have developed a dedicated COVID-19 section of the Growth Platform website that lists the available business support and guidance from official sites, and we will keep this updated over the coming days and weeks as guidance changes and we get more detailed information about accessing government and other support.

So that we can better understand the extent of the COVID-19 impact on business, and inform what help businesses need across the City Region, we are also asking as many of you as possible to complete a short survey. Please take a couple of minutes to do this if you can, to give us the intelligence we need to make the case for more support.

As we have seen in the last few days this is a fast moving situation and as advice is constantly being updated we would advise that you also visit the appropriate Government website, NHS website and Foreign and Commonwealth travel advice website for the latest official information.

If you would like to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on your business and the support you need, we are here to help. Please contact us at localgrowthhub@growthplatform.org and we will connect you to your local partner or respond to you directly.

Liverpool City Region has a strong ecosystem of business support organisations and we are working together to do what we can to help business in these difficult times.

Together, we will keep you updated on new initiatives and how to access them as soon as this information comes available.

Complete the Survey

Whilst we will continue to monitor the situation and update our site when more information is released we advise you visit the Government website for the most up to date and accurate information.

Please be aware the information provided above is meant as a general guide only rather than advice or assurance.