The UK government offers a package of community and business support following flooding under the flood recovery framework. Find out if you're eligible and how to apply.
Six schemes have been made available following Storm Henk:
- Community Recovery Grant: up to £500 per flood affected household to help with immediate recovery costs. This is a grant scheme administrated by the DLUHC.
- Council Tax Discounts: passed on to householders for the duration that they remain out of their homes. This a scheme administrated by the DLUHC.
- Business Recovery Grant: up to £2,500 per flood affected business to help with immediate recovery costs. This is a grant scheme administrated by DBT.
- Business Rate Relief: passed on to businesses for the duration that they remain out of their premises. This a scheme administrated by the DLUHC.
- Property Flood Resilience Scheme: this Defra scheme offers householders and businesses up to £5,000 per property to fund measures which improve a property's resilience over and above repairs that would normally be covered by insurance.
- Farming Recovery Fund: government grants of up to £25,000 for farmers who have have been adversely affected by flooding and suffered uninsurable damage to their land.
Growers should be able to find details of the schemes available in each area on their local authority and council websites, along with instructions on how to apply.
Local authorities have until 12 April to notify the government of 50 internally flooded properties to become eligible for flood recovery framework support.
Are farms eligible for business recovery grant support?
Where a farm business is a SME and operates an ancillary SME business which is severely impacted by flooding such as a farm produce shop, ice cream parlour or tea shop, local authorities can award business recovery grants where the applicant satisfies the scheme eligibility criteria in full.
Only one business recovery grant award may be made per ancillary SME business premises and where ancillary businesses share a premises, only one award may be made per premises.
Business recovery grant funding should not be awarded for flooded farmland or fields, damaged crops, loss of livestock or flooded buildings that house livestock such as barns, milking parlours or any other premises from which trading does not take place.
Farming Recovery Fund
This is for Storm Henk only and offers up to £25,000 towards repair and reinstatement costs for farmers – Defra administrated this funding through the Rural Payments Agency.
This scheme is not open yet, but we will provide more information when it becomes available.
Councils eligible for the flood recovery framework following Storm Henk:
- Gloucestershire County
- Nottinghamshire County
- West Northamptonshire
- Warwickshire
- Worcestershire County
- Herefordshire County
- Lincolnshire County
- Somerset County
- Surrey County
- Oxfordshire County
- Leicester City
- Leicestershire County
- Wiltshire
- Windsor & Maidenhead
- Tower Hamlets
- West Berkshire
For more information: nfuonline.com