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As part of the response to the coronavirus crisis, local organisations have come together to create a new Clackmannanshire Business Support Partnership. They are working together to co-ordinate activity in order to provide effective support to our local business community. This guide tells you more about it.

For advice and support, please contact Business Gateway Clackmannanshire which is the Council’s main interface with business.
They can be contacted Monday to Friday on the following numbers:

• 01259 726429 (9am–12 noon and 1–3pm)  
• 01259 726430 (9am–1pm and 3–5pm)   

Alternatively, you can email your enquiry to businessgateway@ceteris.co.uk.

Ceteris have created a 7-day rolling business support news feed with information and stories from around the Forth Valley.
Other support delivered locally includes:

• The Scottish Government Coronavirus Business Support Fund and the Newly Self-employed Hardship Fund are being administered locally by Clackmannanshire Council.
• Redundancy support can be provided through Partnership Action for Continuing Employment (PACE), a Scottish Government initiative provided through local partnerships.
• As per Scottish Government guidance on Business Support for Private and Third Sector Childcare Providers the Council continues to pay our partner private nurseries and partner childminders the grant funding for all children they were due to have. 
• Environmental Health advice for food and drink businesses.
• Information about benefits and other financial support on our Worried About Money page.
• Clackmannanshire Citizens Advice Bureau is operating a phone and email service Tel: 01259 219404. Email: Bureau@clackscab.casonline.org.uk.
• Alloa Jobcentre phone numbers:
  • New Benefit Claims: 0800 055 6688
  • Existing Benefit Claims: 0800 169 0310
  • Universal Credit: 0800 328 9344