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Originally written by Anna Jordan on Small Business
An astonishing 835,494 new businesses were registered in the UK during the last year, according to Reboot SEO Agency.
That’s a 41 per cent increase from 2019 when 591,924 businesses were registered and a 96 per cent increase from 2018 when the figure sat at 425,703. It’s a 141 per cent increase from 2017 when 345,675 new businesses were registered.
The most popular new business between January 2020 and January 2021 is retail sale through mail order houses or via internet, with 39,733 registered.
Activities within this category could include internet auctions, internet retail sales, mail order, radio direct sales, telephone direct sales, and television direct sales.
This is followed by buying and selling property/real estate with 30,637 businesses registered. In third place is ‘management consultancy activities other than financial management’, with 29,911 new businesses registered. ‘Other service activities n.e.c.’ with 26,397 registrations followed and in fifth place ‘other letting and operating of own or leased estate’ with 26,264 businesses registered.

The city with the highest number of new businesses is London with 219,679. In second place is Birmingham with 19,724 businesses and Manchester in third with 17,517 businesses registered in the last year.
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Restart Grant for your small business – what is it and where to claim

by Timothy Adler • February 28, 2021 • 0 Comments

Originally written by Timothy Adler on Small Business
Rishi Sunak has announced a £5bn Restart Grant scheme to help any small business most badly affected by Covid-19, according to reports.
A Restart Grant worth up to £18,000 for the largest businesses will help shops, pubs, hotels and any other small business through to June 21, when it’s hoped the final coronavirus restrictions will be lifted.
Mr Sunak is also expected to announce on Wednesday that other small business support schemes such as furlough will be extended until the end of June.
Where to find your Restart Grant
The Restart Grant scheme, administered by local councils, will help almost 700,000 small business owners including those running shops, pubs, clubs, hotels restaurants, gyms and hair salons.
Non-essential retail businesses will get up to £6,000 per premises through the Restart Grant scheme to help them reopen. Shops will reopen no earlier than April 12, according to the Government’s Covid-19 roadmap.
More Restart Grant money will be available for any small business in hospitality, accommodation, leisure, personal care and gyms, which will reopen later and will be more affected by restrictions. They can receive up to £18,000, depending on their rateable value.
Meanwhile, local authorities in England will also get an extra