New Zealand Government extends events insurance scheme 

New Zealand’s Events Transition Support Payment (ETSP) scheme will be extended until January 31, 2023 and will also be expanded to include business events. The scheme was originally introduced at the end of last year to help large events recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and run during the summer, but the arrival of the Omicron …

Businesses urged to apply for leftover Government COVID support grants

English businesses are being urged to keep applying for £840m ($1.3bn/€1bn) worth of COVID-19 support grants, which are still available. Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy), Paul Scully, has urged businesses to apply for the grants, which were made available by the Government to councils across the country. Funding is made up …