Boss of popular pub-restaurant group offers to return Chancellor's £250K grant if his venues are used as vaccination centres to speed up roll-out
Updated Thursday, 7th January 2021, 10:58 am The Chief Executive of pub and restaurant group, Oakman Inns is offering to forego The Chancellor’s latest lockdown grant of up to £250,000 if he allows National Health Trusts to use Oakman Inns’ venues as vaccination centres. Under the business grants scheme outlined by Rishi Sunak yesterday (Wednesday), Oakman Inns would have received more than £250,000 during the next four months, but Dermot King is ready to give that back to the Government to help pay for a bigger and quicker vaccination roll-out. King said: “The only route to any norm...
Source: miltonkeynes.co.uk