Jan 21, 2021 – The Small and Medium Sized Business Recovery Grant program provides fully funded grants to businesses to ensure they have the support they need during and beyond COVID-19.
How the program works
Grants of $10,000 to $30,000 are available to small and medium sized B.C. businesses impacted by COVID-19. An additional $5,000 to $15,000 grant is available to eligible tourism-related businesses.
The program runs until March 31, 2021 or until the funds are fully allocated, whichever comes first.
The first step is to apply for funding online.
If you’re eligible, you’ll be asked to develop a recovery plan. Professional service providers are available to help businesses with the recovery plan as needed. More information is available in the application.
Once your recovery plan is submitted and reviewed, approved businesses will receive grant funding for their plan.
You may be asked to give information and documentation about your recovery efforts and how the grant funding was used.
How to use your funding
Funding can be used to implement the actions identified in your recovery plan. For example, you might propose to:
- Provide new services to your customers
- Modify your physical business location
- Install new outdoor patio with social distancing barriers
- Support your business moving online
- Hire an online marketing service
Many businesses do not have an adequate or modern online presence. Use this grant to develop a website or an app. For example if you are a hair salon possibly look at developing an app for online appointment booking.
To receive the grants you will need to complete a recovery plan. Small Business BC will provide access to professional services to assist you in creating the recovery plan required to apply for the grant and will pay upto $2,000 to these service providers. So there should not be any out of pocket costs for applying for the grant. For more info click here