Support and resources for social enterprises during the COVID19 crisis
Access information and advice to support your business
We are all facing a time of uncertainty as Covid-19 (Coronavirus) has wide-reaching implications for individuals, businesses and society in general.
We realise this is a challenging time for many social enterprises (as well as other businesses) and are here to support our network and the wider social enterprise community in any way we can.
We have set up this page to signpost you to support, guidance and resources – it will be regularly updated, and please do get in touch if we can provide any further support.
Government advice and resources
- Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme – step-by-step guide
- Government announce £85m financial support for social enterprises and charities
- Government guidance for VCSE organisations
- Government business support finder
- Government support for business
- Government advice on Coronavirus
- Government protection for commercial tenants
- Government support if your business is affected by coronavirus
- HMRC tax helpline
- HMRC Time to Pay scheme
- HM Treasury advice on financial support
- Relief measures for those supplying the public sector
- Scottish government support for businesses
- Top-up to local business grant funds scheme
Business advice & guidance
- Bates Wells Crisis Decision Network Tool
- BITC National Business Response Network
- BITC small business advice
- Charity Bank COVID-19 resources hub
- Communications consultancy support
- Communications resources
- Continuity planning for social businesses and charities
- Co-operative UK advice for co-ops
- Coronavirus guidance for CICs
- Key steps to dealing with business change
- Make an Impact podcast – support for social entrepreneurs
- NCVO guidance for charities and voluntary organisations
- Power to Change support for community businesses
- Real Ideas Organisation business support webinars
- SSE information & resources
- Small Business Charter – tips for SMEs
- Social Enterprise UK briefing paper
- The Hive support for co-operatives
- UMi Back to Business Bundle
Finance and funding
- Action Against Corona – funding for solutions
- Arts Council England emergency funding
- Barclays Community Aid Package
- Big Society Capital £100m emergency funding
- Bounce Back Loan scheme
- C-19 Emergency Trading Income Support Scheme
- CAF Coronavirus Emergency Fund
- Community Radio Fund
- Co-op Local Community Fund
- Co-operatives UK funding opportunities for co-ops
- Cornwall Community Foundation Emergency Fund
- Corona Business Interruption Loan Scheme
- Coronavirus Community Support Fund
- Covidcap database of cash relief resources
- Covid-19 Digital Response Fund
- Covid-19 Community-Led Organisations Recovery Scheme
- Creative England New Ideas Fund
- Crowdfunder ‘Pay it Forward’ free fundraising
- Devon Coronavirus Response and Recovery Fund
- DM Thomas Foundation for Young People Central Grants Programme
- Ecover Fertilise the Future Fund
- Emergency funding for social sector
- Esmée Fairbairn emergency funding
- Facebook Small Business Grants
- Good Finance guide to navigating funding opportunities
- Good Finance resource hub
Finance and funding (continued)
- Government Coronavirus Future Fund
- Goverment Food Charities Grant Fund
- Government grants to boost small business recovery
- Government Loneliness Covid-19 Grant Fund
- Grants Online – directory of funding programmes
- Heritage Emergency Fund
- Homelessness Response Fund
- Impact investing webinar – emergency funding for social enterprises
- Innovate UK funding competition for business-led innovation
- Lloyds Bank Foundation COVID Recovery Fund
- London Community Response Fund
- Mind Coronavirus Mental Health Response Fund
- National Emergencies Trust Coronavirus Appeal
- Nationwide Community Grants
- NatWest Social & Community Capital Coronavirus Response Fund (England and Wales)
- NatWest Social & Community Capital Coronavirus Response Fund (Northern Ireland)
- NatWest Social & Community Capital Coronavirus Response Fund (Scotland)
- Pioneers Post funding index
- Princes Trust and NatWest Enterprise Relief Fund
- RAFT Transition Fund
- Resilience and Recovery Loan Fund
- Rosa’s Covid-19 Response Fund
- Salesforce small business grants
- SAP COVID-19 Emergency Fund
- Social Enterprise Support Fund
- Scotland Third Sector Resilience Fund
- UnLtd emergency fund application guide
- Wales Coronavirus Resilience Appeal
- Wales Economic Resilience Fund
Health & wellbeing
Human resources
- ACAS guidance for employers and employees
- ACEVO – leadership in challenging times
- Advice on furloughing employees
- Claim for employee wages through Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- RAFT Directory for Skilled Volunteer Requests
- Roots HR guidance on furlough leave
- Roots HR webinar – managing people through the crisis
- Roots HR – support and guidance for employers
Legal
Remote working
- BBC: How to work from home, the right way
- Cosmic remote working advice toolkit
- How learning to manage remotely can make you a better manager
- Investors in People – managing remote teams
- Rising Minds working from home webinars and online course
- Roots Human Resources home working support for employers
- Tech against Coronavirus – remote working tools
- UnLtd remote working advice
Other support
- Bitpod introduction to running webinars
- Businesses and COVID-19 webinar series
- Digital Boost free digital advice
- Ethical Angel – free virtual support
- Ground Up Digital – free business health checks
- Good news stories
- Homeschooling during COVID-19
- Inspiring Impact impact support
- Pioneers Post COVID-19 news updates
- SEWF – global responses
- Social enterprise support forum
- Social Enterprise UK – taking your voice to government
- Social Value UK Ideas Exchange weekly webinars
- Thomson Reuters Foundation coronavirus news updates
We will be keeping this page regularly updated, but please visit https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus for the latest government advice. Links to external sources do not constitute a recommendation or endorsement of those providers’ products and/or services.
