Business Ventilation Fund - eligibility criteria extended
Posted on 7 February 2022 by Christie McAlpine in Funding
The Scottish Government’s Business Ventilation Fund can provide funding to help small and medium sized businesses improve their ventilation, and help reduce the spread of COVID-19. The list of eligible sectors has recently been updated. A full of those eligible can be found below or on the Scottish Government website.
About the fund
Businesses can claim back up to £2,500 per eligible premises to recover the costs of carrying out work to improve ventilation and air quality. This could include:
- installing of carbon dioxide monitors
- repairs to windows and vents
Applications will be accepted until Thursday 31 March 2022 or until the fund runs out, whichever comes first.
Eligible sectors
The full list of sectors now eligible to apply is as follows:
- arcades and amusements
- art galleries and museums
- banks
- B&Bs/guesthouses
- bookmakers/betting shops
- cafes
- casinos
- cinemas
- close contact services*
- comedy clubs
- community, function and multi-purpose event venues (including wedding venues)
- conference centres
- essential retail
- estate agents
- GP surgeries
- hostels
- hotels
- indoor bowling alleys
- indoor crazy golf
- indoor football centres
- indoor gyms
- indoor soft play/role centre
- laser tag and escape rooms
- lawyer's offices
- leisure centres
- licensed bingo clubs
- licensed sport and social clubs
- music and event venues
- nightclubs
- non-essential retail
- pharmacies
- places of worship
- pool and snooker clubs
- post offices
- private nurseries
- public houses
- theatres
- restaurants and licensed cafes
- sexual entertainment venues
- service stations
- swimming pools
- trampoline and adventure parks
- takeaway
- yoga/dance/exercise studios
* Examples of close contact services
- hairdressing and barber services
- beauty and nail services (including make-up services)
- hair removal services
- tattoo, piercing and body modification services
- fashion design, dress-fitting and tailoring services
- indoor portrait photography and art services
- massage therapies
- complementary and alternative medicine services requiring physical contact or close physical proximity between persons, but not osteopathy and chiropractic services
- spa and wellness services
- other services or procedures which require physical contact or close physical proximity between a provider and a customer and are not ancillary to medical, health or social care services