TAKE ADVANTAGE OF A £2,000 GRANT SME Brexit Support Fund Unsworth are certified training providers and can help guide and support your business with customs compliance and declarations. Our team is ready to create a tailored proposal for you and your business, supporting on training and/or professional advice, to help you with changes to trade rules with the EU. GET STARTED ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA Who can apply for the SME grant? To be eligible for this funding your business must: · Be established in the UK · Have been established in the UK for at least 12 months before submitting the application, or currently hold Authorised Economic Operator status · Not have previously failed to meet its tax or customs obligations · Have no more than 500 employees · Have no more than £100 million turnover · Import or export goods between Great Britain and the EU, or move goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland ‍ Your business must also either: · Complete (or intend to complete) import or export declarations internally for its own goods · Use someone else to complete import or export declarations but requires additional capability internally to effectively import or export (such as advice on rules of origin or advice on dealing with a supply chain) ‍ DEDICATED TEAM OF EXPERTS How can Unsworth help you? Unsworth is a recommended listed training provider. We are able to support you no matter which grant you choose. As your Training Provider, we can: Provide training on how to complete customs declarations, with help on simplifying processes and eliminating complexities. Show you how to manage customs processes and use customs software and systems. Read more on our Customs Visibility Platform here. Support on specific import and export related aspects including VAT, excise and rules of origin. Simplify customs declarations or other declarations required to complete customs processes in the UK or EU, such as safety and security declarations. As your Professional Advisor, we can: Provide consultancy and advice that enables your business to discharge its obligations to HMRC, such as customs, VAT relating to importing or exporting or safety and security declaration obligations. Provision professional advice on specific aspects of regulations such as clarification of rules of origin or VAT relating to imports or exports. Explain associated costs with the delivery of professional advice – such as the consultant’s travel and subsistence costs and costs of products supplied included within the consultant’s fee and essential to the delivery of the advice. Take advantage of up to £2,000 of government funded grant money. Appoint Unsworth as your training provider or professional advisor. Simplify your Brexit related customs processes. REGISTER NOW AND BEGIN YOUR APPLICATION How to apply for the SME Brexit Support Fund Follow the below steps. You must register via the Customs Intermediary Grant website. You will be required to provide some basic information about your organisation and further details depending on what type of grant you have chosen. If your application is successful, you will receive confirmation of this by email. Complete application form. You will need to provide a quote for the eligible expenditure you are seeking a grant for. Further eligibility checks are then taken. Submit evidence of applicable expenditure. You will need to submit proof of payment within 2 calendar months of the grant offer being issued - at the latest on or before 31 August 2021. Required evidence includes a VAT invoice and redacted bank statement evidencing the expenditure. Once payment proof is reviewed, payment is made within 30 days for all valid claims. Register now via the Customs Intermediary Website by clicking below. REGISTER NOW Get started with Unsworth. Find out how Unsworth can supercharge your supply chain, through freight expertise combined with superior technology. GET STARTED SME Brexit Support Fund FAQ's What is the SME Brexit Support Fund? The government has made £20 million available through the current SME Brexit Support Fund. Provided you meet certain eligibility criteria, HMRC may provide funding towards the costs of training and/or professional advice, to help you with changes to trade rules with the EU. Traders can apply for up to £2,000 in total through two types of grants. What grants are available? Each business can apply for up to £2,000, with two types of grants available. Grant for Training: The grants can be used to provide training on the following: 1) How to complete customs declarations 2) How to manage customs processes and use customs software and systems. 3) Specific import and export related aspects including VAT, excise and rules of origin Grant for Professional Advice: The grant can be used to get professional advice, so your business can meet its customs, excise, import VAT or safety and security declaration requirements. Are there limitations on the Brexit Grant Scheme? The maximum claim per applicant across both training and professional advice is £2,000 so if the full grant has been claimed for training, no further grant can be claimed for consultancy and vice versa, and there can be no application made for trainee’s salaries. Qualifying expenditure must be evidenced, in full, on submission of your claim for payment. The claim for payment including acceptable evidence of expenditure must be submitted within two calendar months of the grant offer being issued, and by 31 August 2021 at the latest. What is Brexit and Customs Software? Managing Brexit customs declarations and paperwork can be tricky. Our software solution and digital platform, Customs Visibility, gives you the ability to digitise your movements, allowing full control over processes, with documentation and declarations in one place, you can bring stakeholders together to collaborate more effectively. 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