Business categorisation for the purposes of grant funding thresholds

Non-essential retail (up to £6,000)

• Betting offices
• Departmental stores
• Markets (other than livestock)
• Sales kiosks
• Showrooms, e.g. kitchen, bathroom, tile, glazing
• Tobacco and vape stores
• Antiques stores
• Sales offices
• Travel agents
• Electronic goods and mobile phone shops
• Clothes shops
• Book shops
• Auction rooms
• Car auction
• Car showrooms
• Car supermarkets
• Car washes (standalone)
• Car/caravan
• Sales/display/hiring Sites
• Charity shops
• Carpet stores
• Furniture shops
• Sofa shops
• Homeware shops
• Florists
• Plant nurseries
• Jewellers
• Stationery shops
• Gift shops
• Make-up shops
• Animal groomers
• Sweet shops
• Photography studios

Hospitality (up to £18,000)

• Food courts
• Public houses/pub restaurants
• Restaurants
• Roadside restaurants
• Wine bars
• Cafes

Leisure (up to £18,000) 

• Bingo halls
• Bowling alleys
• Casinos and gambling clubs
• Cinemas
• Ice rinks
• Museums and art galleries
• Roller skating rings
• Stately homes & historic houses
• Theatres
• Zoos & safari parks
• Amusement parks
• Pleasure piers
• Pavilions
• Conference centres
• Exhibition centres including for use as banquet halls and other events
• Wedding venues
• Events venues
• Heritage railways
• Public halls
• Night clubs & discotheques
• Hostess bars
• Sexual entertainment venues
• Shisha bars, waterpipe consumption venues
• Arenas
• Concert halls
• Go kart rinks
• Model villages
• Tourist attractions
• Aquaria
• Miniature railways
• Theme parks
• Amusement arcades including adult gaming centres
• Animal attractions at farms
• Wildlife centres
• Botanical gardens
• Circus
• Visitor attractions at film studios
• Soft play centres or areas
• Indoor riding centres
• Clubs & institutions
• Village halls & scout huts, cadet huts etc.

Accommodation (up to £18,000) 

• Caravan parks
• Caravan sites and pitches
• Chalet parks
• Coaching inns
• Country house hotels
• Guest & boarding houses
• Hostels
• Hotels
• Lodges
• Holiday apartments,
• Cottages or bungalows
• Campsites
• Boarding houses
• Canal boats or other vessels
• B&Bs
• Catered holiday homes
• Holiday homes

Personal care Spas, sauna and steam rooms Hairdressing salons (up to £18,000) 

• Tanning salons
• Nail salons
• Massage centres, massage treatments
• Tattoo and piercing studios
• Holistic therapy (reflexology, massage, acupuncture)
• Barbers, groomers
• Beauty salons
• Beauticians, aesthetics
• Other non-surgical treatments

Gyms & sport (up to £18,000) 

• Dance schools and centres
• Dance studios
• Gymnasia/fitness suites
• Cricket centres
• Ski centres
• Sports and leisure centres
• Outdoor sports centres
• Outdoor adventure centres
• Squash courts
• Tennis centres
• Sports courts
• Swimming pools
• Shooting and archery venues
• Driving ranges
• Water sport centres
• Golf courses