Suffolk Growth Partnership
Economy & Business:
Response and Recovery
Suffolk Growth leads the economy & business workstream, a key part of Suffolk’s county wide Strategic Recovery team responsible for coordinating Suffolk’s response to and recovery from Covid 19. We work closely with all our local authority partners, Suffolk Chamber of Commerce and New Anglia LEP, along with the wider Suffolk Resilience Forum, including police, fire, communities and Central Government.
This page provides links to the latest guidance for employers / employees, summarises the funding available to support businesses and economic recovery and links to training events that we are sponsoring to ensure businesses can re-open and remain open in a Covid secure economy.
We provide regular communications on all the latest news & updates on Covid 19 and the wider work of Suffolk Growth via our fortnightly headlines. If you would like sign-up to receive this newsletter visit our news & subscriptions webpage: News & Subscriptions | Suffolk Growth ||
If you would like further information about Suffolk's Economy & Business: Response and Recovery please contact info@suffolkgrowth.co.uk
Suffolk local authorities are working to ensure we support our businesses in meeting the requirements for reopening and ensuring we work together to minimise the spread of COVID-19. At the same time the Suffolk Resilience Forum had been encouraging residents to shop local and support Suffolk traders during these extraordinary times. We know there is a wealth of guidance and this can be confusing. We have put together some information, linked to the Government’s roadmap to re-opening to help businesses open and remain open while being COVID safe.
Follow the link to find out more about Suffolk's promotional video to encourage our local businesses to operate safely and for visitors to do so responsibly. We have also developed various 'good practice' exemplars to provide peer-to-peer support across our business sectors.
Suffolk local authorities are here to support you and your business with both re-opening and staying open safely. Working with Park City Consulting we are offering four FREE webinars for Suffolk businesses providing support and advice on reopening.
The Suffolk Inclusive Growth Investment Fund is a £1.65m fund allocated by Suffolk Public Sector Leaders and New Anglia LEP to support local, place-based economic recovery from Covid 19 across Suffolk.
Find out what local and national funding support is available for all sectors here.
Suffolk Growth have also provided a summary paper of Government support available to businesses, employees, self-employed & the vulnerable.
Suffolk Councils, working with the Suffolk Chamber of Commerce, are helping to deliver a brand-new national programme to boost opportunities for young people in the workplace.
Suffolk businesses are being encouraged to protect themselves by getting their staff tested for COVID-19 twice a week, as part of a new campaign launched.
The Yes 2 Test campaign complements the Government’s roll-out of regular rapid testing for everyone. Businesses across Suffolk are being asked to commit to whole-staff lateral flow testing, either through testing at their workplaces or encouraging staff to sign-up for home testing kits.
Suffolk Growth developed a number of personal stories in June 2020 to demonstrate the economic and financial impact of Covid 19 on residents in Suffolk. Please note these are fictional case studies only to demonstrate the direct and indirect economic and financial impacts – while based on real data they are not a statistically valid representation of the total impact.
Suffolk employers are asked to continue to support the vaccination programme by encouraging employees to have their vaccinations when eligible.