COVID-19 Response

Oceansgate Businesses & Stakeholders,

With the developing coronavirus (COVID-19) situation and ongoing government advice, we would like to share details of Oceansgate current response plan.

We will be continuing to support all of our businesses and stakeholders as fully as we can.

We have taken a number of actions to reduce any risk to our team and to the businesses we work with and value highly. We prioritised our employees who fall into higher risk categories and they are all now working remotely as are those providing sole care and family support.

All face-to-face meetings are now being conducted remotely unless deemed absolutely business critical, in which case social distancing measures and hygiene protocols are being strictly observed.

Oceansgate will do all it can to continue to support you, and we will take whatever action is necessary to maintain continuity of service during this challenging time.

If there is any assistance that you need from us, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

We wish all of our clients good health and we look forward to working with you going forwards.

Best Regards

The Oceansgate team

The Invest Plymouth team have put together an advice and guidance page for businesses on their website. The page is being regularly updated with the latest advice and information and now includes sector specific pages with signposting to the latest industry guidance.

View the COVID-19 business support page.

Key pages:

• Coronavirus guidance to employers and businesses
• Business grants
• Finance support
• Sector specific advice

In these uncertain times, we thought it might be helpful to remind businesses what current grant offers our business support programmes have to offer.

What the Marine Business Technology Centre has to offer:

Consultancy Grants are available to Devon based SMEs working in the Marine sector for Innovation projects accessing specialist consultancy services not available from within the MBTC project e.g. specialist IP advice, strategic marketing, accreditation, design consultants, business growth and finance specialists etc.

What the Meet the Expert has to offer:

Businesses may be eligible to access a £1,000 fixed sum grant for external consultancy support, which could be used to access a range of advice.

Please get in touch if you’d like to discuss further.