East Herts Council has launched its discretionary business grant scheme after being allocated £1.5 million of additional funding by the Government to support small businesses.

Sarah Allen started her dog grooming business in 2012 but after an injury, she couldn’t groom anymore so decided to open a dog friendly café. 

The next stage of East Herts Council’s project to revitalise Old River Lane will see the closure of Northgate End car park on Monday June 1 to make way for a brand new multi-storey car park.

Since the coronavirus outbreak, Mudlarks has managed to keep their allotment site open. This is mainly due to the magnificent staff ethos of prioritising and understanding the profound needs of the learning disabled gardeners. 

Many of the good causes that you can support through the East Herts Community Lottery have adapted how they continue to provide excellent services in the face of the pandemic.

Many of the good causes that you can support through the East Herts Community Lottery have adapted how they continue to provide excellent services in the face of the pandemic.

A keen bowls player, who has supporting her local club through the East Herts Community Lottery, has won an Amazon Echo.

East Herts Council will begin restarting garden and food waste collections from Monday 11 May.

Many of the good causes that you can support through the East Herts Community Lottery have adapted how they continue to provide excellent services in the face of the pandemic.

Defra is keen to have feedback from the rural economy about how well current initiatives to support businesses are working.  You can complete the survey below, so that the results can be fed back to Defra.