Business Support Measures Survey

By sharing your experiences, we can ensure that your challenges are understood and that your voice is heard by government.

This survey is for creative businesses, charities, nonprofits and freelancers operating as limited companies. It follows on from our last creative industries survey in March, which enabled us to call on government to introduce further support measures for the self-employed. This survey will help us inform UK and devolved governments on the awareness and effectiveness of COVID-19 support measures for organisations in our sector, and your views on the easing of the lockdown measures.

If you responded to our last survey, it’s important that you respond to this one. We need to assess any improvements and persistent gaps.

It is also important to respond even if you have had to close or have run out of reserves. We need to communicate to government the scale of the impact.

If you are a freelancer, you need only respond if you’re registered as a company. A separate survey on support for freelancers was circulated last week. A big thank you to the 1,700+ who responded.

This survey should take 10-15 minutes.

YOUR ORGANISATION

2.What is your organisation’s status? (Required.)

Private firm or business

Public limited company

Self-employed

Charity, voluntary organisation or trust

University or other grant funded educational establishment

Other (please specify)

5.How long have you been open/trading as an organisation?(Required.)

2 years or under

2-5 years

5-10 years

10 years +

8.Have you responded to any of these previous Creative Industries Federation surveys on the impact of Coronavirus? (Required.)

Coronavirus: Your voice, heard (17th March)

Coronavirus Creative Industries Impact Survey (27th March)

Coronavirus: Creative Industries Self-Employed Survey (17th April)

Don’t know

None of the above

CORONAVIRUS IMPACT

9.During 2020, due to the Coronavirus outbreak and based on your current understanding, do you predict your annual turnover (excluding grants) will: (Required.)

10.How long do you believe you can sustain your organisation on your existing financial reserves? (Required.)

11.What is the current operational status of your organisation? (Required.)

Continuing to operate as prior to the outbreak

Operating at reduced levels

Temporarily paused operations

Permanently ceased operations

12.Compared to a month ago, have you changed your view on how long your organisation could last on its existing financial reserves?

Yes, I estimate that my organisation can now last longer than before

No, I estimate that my organisation will last for the same amount of time

Yes, I estimate that my organisation will now last for a shorter period of time

Don’t know

13.If your view has changed, what is the reason for this?

14.During 2020, due to the Coronavirus outbreak and based on your current understanding, do you predict your exports will:(Required.)

16.Do you anticipate having to make redundancies in the coming months?(Required.)

Yes

No

Don’t know

18.How many employees have you furloughed? (Furloughed employees are employees laid off whilst paid up to 80% wages via the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme)(Required.)

20.If you are self-employed, have you already or do you anticipate you will furlough yourself?

Already furloughed

Likely to furlough

Not likely to furlough

Don’t know

CORONAVIRUS SUPPORT MEASURES

21.Do you think that, as of the 28th of April, UK Government is doing enough to support organisations in the creative industries to help them mitigate the potential impact of coronavirus?(Required.)

Yes

No

Don’t know / don’t wish to comment

Business Support Measures

27.If you are eligible for the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme, have you:

Successfully applied and money received

Successfully applied and awaiting payment

Applied and awaiting decision

Applied but rejected as they were not taking on new customers

Applied but rejected as ineligible

Not applied, but made enquiries

Not applied, don’t want to take on debt

Not applied, not needed

Don’t know enough about the scheme

28.If you have decided not to apply or have been unsuccessful please describe why

31.If eligible, have you accessed or applied for any of the following Northern Ireland government support measures? [Only respond if based in Northern Ireland] -

Successfully Applied for support

Will apply for support

Considering applying for support

Not applying for support

Creative Support Fund Organisation Grants

Successfully Applied for support

Will apply for support

Considering applying for support

Not applying for support

Creative Support Fund - Individual Artists and Creative Practitioners Programme

Successfully Applied for support

Will apply for support

Considering applying for support

Not applying for support

32.Have you applied for any other emergency funds or support?

Yes

No

33.If you have applied for other emergency funding, what scheme and for how much funding have you applied for? If known, have you been successful?

34.Of the support measures in place, are there any that you are eligible for but decided not to apply to? If yes, why?

35.To what extent have the UK-wide support measures outlined above mitigated the impact of the outbreak on your organisation? (Required.)

The impact has been fully mitigated by the support measures our organisation has accessed

The impact has been substantially mitigated by the support measures our organisation has accessed

The impact has been partially mitigated by the support measures our organisation has accessed

The impact has been not at all been mitigated by the support measures our organisation has accessed

36.To what extent have the support measures introduced by your devolved administration mitigated the impact of the outbreak on your organisation? [Only respond if based in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland]

Very significantly

Significantly

Somewhat

Not at all

37.What other measures would you like to see introduced by government or your devolved administration to support your organisation during the outbreak and to help it recover once current measures end? [Please list the measures separated by a comma]

Job Retention Scheme

38.If the current measures to limit the spread of coronavirus were lifted now, how long would you need the Job Retention Scheme to remain in place?(Required.)

CORONAVIRUS RECOVERY

39.If current measures to limit the spread of coronavirus were lifted tomorrow, how long would you need before you could restart your organisation’s main commercial operations/programme activities? (Required.)

40.If the current measures to limit the spread of coronavirus were lifted tomorrow, how quickly could your organisation return to pre-pandemic activity levels?(Required.)

41.If social distancing measures (e.g. remaining 2 metres apart) were to continue in a recovery phase, to what extent would you be able to restart your organisation’s activities?(Required.)

My organisation would be able to restart all of its activities

My organisation would be able to restart more than half its activities

My organisation would be able to restart around half of its activities

My organisation would be able to restart less than half of its activities

My organisation would be able to restart none of its activities

Not sure

Not applicable

42.What activities and services could you undertake whilst maintaining social distancing? [Please list the activities and services separated by a comma](Required.)

43.What would be the cost to your organisation of restarting all activities at a point when current measures are lifted?(Required.)

44.Aside from government support, what actions have you taken to enable the continuation of your organisation’s work?

45.How do you feel about your organisation’s prospects of being able to recover financially from the outbreak?(Required.)

Other (please specify)

46.Are you happy for us to get in touch should we need further information?

Yes

No

47.If so, please leave your name, organisation (if applicable), and email address

Name

Organisation

Email Address