Strachans local company are sponsoring Peterhead based professional golfer Ross Cameron.
Strachans are sponsoring Peterhead based professional golfer Ross Cameron as he looks to build on his fantastic achievements in 2020!
In a very shortened golfing calendar in 2020, due to the COVID 19 pandemic, Ross won the Scottish PGA Championship, the PGA Northern Open and topped the PGA Scottish region order of merit.
Strachans local company are sponsoring Peterhead based professional golfer Ross Cameron.
“Strachans contacted me towards the end of last year to congratulate me on my successes and to offer their help for the 2021 season. With tournament costs relatively high in comparison to prize money on offer, their help is invaluable to me and pretty much necessary to allow me to play these tournaments. It’s great to have a local company sponsoring me as I look to build on the successes of my 2020 season.”
Ross said
In 2021 Ross is competing on the PGA Europro Tour, a third tier development tour with the goal of gaining promotion to the second tier for 2022. This week Ross is competing at an Europro Tour event in Newbury and is currently sitting 3 shots off the lead.
Wishing you all the very best of success in your 2021 season ahead, Ross and we are proud to be sponsoring you this year.
04/09/2020
Ross Cameron achieved the biggest success of his career in winning the Loch Lomond Whiskies PGA Scottish Championship and in doing so experience some sunshine in an otherwise gloomy year.
Cancelled tournaments and shut down golf clubs due to the lockdown meant the 41-year-old from Peterhead had to take on a part-time job in a supermarket to supplement his income.
But those worries were temporarily cast aside at Deer Park Golf and Country Club as he won the Tartan Tour’s flagship event.
Self-Employment Income Support Scheme a 5th grant covering May 2021 to September 2021 will be open to claims from late July 2021
The grant is taxable and will be paid out in a single instalment.
Guidance for claiming the grant will be available by the end of June 2021.
1. Who can claim
To be eligible for the grant you must be a self-employed individual or a member of a partnership.
1.1 When you must have traded
You must have traded in the tax years:
2019 to 2020 and submitted your tax return on or before 2 March 2021
2020 to 2021
You must either:
be currently trading but are impacted by reduced demand due to coronavirus
have been trading but are temporarily unable to do so due to coronavirus
1.2 Your tax returns
To work out your eligibility for the fifth grant, we’ll first look at your 2019 to 2020 Self Assessment tax return. Your trading profits must be no more than £50,000 and at least equal to your non-trading income.
If you’re not eligible based on your 2019 to 2020 tax return, we’ll then look at the tax years 2016 to 2017, 2017 to 2018, 2018 to 2019 and 2019 to 2020.
1.3 Deciding if you can claim
You must declare that:
you intend to continue to trade
you reasonably believe there will be a significant reduction in your trading profits due to reduced business activity, capacity, demand or inability to trade due to coronavirus from May 2021 to September 2021
You must keep evidence that shows how your business has been impacted by coronavirus resulting in less business activity than otherwise expected.
HMRC expects you to make an honest assessment about whether you reasonably believe your business will have a significant reduction in profits.
Self-Employment Income Support Scheme fifth grant
2. How the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme fifth grant is different
The amount of the fifth grant will be determined by how much your turnover has been reduced in the year April 2020 to April 2021.
We’ll provide more information and support by the end of June 2021 to help you work out how your turnover was affected.
2.1 How much you’ll get
Turnover reduction
How much you’ll get
Maximum grant
30% or more
80% of 3 months average trading profits
£7,500
less than 30%
30% of 3 months average trading profits
£2,850
3. When you can claim
The online claims service for the fifth grant will be available from late July 2021.
If you’re eligible based on your tax returns, HMRC will contact you in middle of July 2021 to give you a date that you can make your claim from.
Aberdeenshire and Moray will move to level 1, Glasgow to move to Level 2 and Scotland remains on the right track.
The First Minister outlined the next steps to Parliament and confirmed that Glasgow will move to Level 2 from 00:01 on Saturday 5 June 2021.
The following mainland local authority areas will also remain at Level 2, while the situation with the virus is monitored closely:
East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire
East Ayrshire, North Ayrshire, and South Ayrshire
North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire
Edinburgh and Midlothian
Stirling and Clackmannanshire
Dundee
At the same time, from 00:01 on Saturday 5 June 2021, these 15 mainland local authorities will move to Level 1:
Highland and Argyll & Bute
Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire and Moray
Angus and Perth & Kinross
Inverclyde and West Dunbartonshire
Falkirk
Fife
West Lothian and East Lothian
The Scottish Borders
Dumfries & Galloway
Aberdeenshire and Moray
All islands currently in Level 1 will move to Level 0 at the same time due to sustained low numbers of cases. Everyone is encouraged to get tested to help stop the spread of COVID-19 by finding cases that might be missed, as around 1 in 3 people with COVID-19 don’t have symptoms.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said:
“I appreciate that today’s decisions will feel like a mixed bag. That reflects the fact that we are in a transition phase. No part of the country is going backwards today. Before the vaccines, that would have been impossible on case numbers like this. But the vaccines are changing the game. And that means we can still be optimistic about our chances of much more normality over the summer and beyond.
“As always, all of us have a part to play in beating this virus back. So please, stick with it, and each other.”
For local authority areas in Level 2, we will be providing support to soft play and other closed sectors that had expected to open, or operate in a different way from 7 June. Full details will be provided by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance tomorrow.
Aberdeenshire and Moray on Level 1: what you can do
you can meet socially in groups:
of up to 6 people from 3 households in your home or theirs – and can stay overnight
of up to 8 people from 3 households in an indoor public place like a café, pub or restaurant
of up to 12 people from 12 households outdoors in your garden or a public place
under 12s do not count towards the total number of people or households meeting outside but do count towards the number of households indoors
you do not need to physically distance from family and friends in a private home
you can travel anywhere in Scotland in Levels 0, 1 or 2 but must not enter a Level 3 or 4 area unless for a permitted reason
you can travel anywhere in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands – before you travel you must check the travel rules in those countries
you can provide informal childcare, for example to look after a grandchild
up to 100 people can attend weddings and funerals
tradespeople can carry out any work and repairs in your home such as painting, decorating or repairing
you should work from home where possible
Aberdeenshire and Moray, What can open at Level 1
Places and business that can open at Level 1 include:
cafés, pubs and restaurants
all shops and stores
all close contact services including hairdressers, barbers and beauty salons
gyms, leisure centres and swimming pools
tourist accommodation
all visitor attractions
all public buildings like libraries and community centres
all entertainment (apart from nightclubs and adult entertainment)
stadiums and events – with maximum numbers
Aberdeenshire and Moray, What must close at Level 1
Places and business that must close at Level 1 include:
Peterhead Community Centre, test has been extended until the end of June
Residents of Peterhead and the surrounding should note that the community testing for those without Covid symptoms has been extended until the end of June.
You can still get tested and also pick up your own pack of lateral flow tests at the Rescue Hall on Prince Street from 8am-8pm. It remains open to anyone who lives, works or studies in and around the town.
By taking the test, residents will be able to better protect their family, colleagues and the wider community by ensuring they are not spreading the virus to others without knowing it.
Travel restrictions update between Scotland and three local authority areas in England
Moray will be the only local authority area to change protection level as it moves to Level 2 at 00.00 tonight, 21 May 2021, following improvement in coronavirus (COVID-19) prevalence.
Data available this morning showed that in the last week case rates in Moray have fallen sharply, from 98 per 100,000 to 37 per 100,000, and cases of the April-02 variant – the so-called Indian variant – are lower there than in other parts of the country.
Travel restrictions update between Scotland and three local authority areas in England will be restricted from 00:01 on Monday 24 May 2021 due to sustained high prevalence of the virus in Bedford, Bolton and Blackburn with Darwen.
This will be reviewed in a week along with the other measures announced today.
Travel restrictions update – People can travel freely throughout most of Scotland and between most of Scotland and the rest of the UK, other than to, or from, Glasgow. Because Glasgow remains in Level 3.
Nicola Sturgeon said:
“The situation in Moray has improved very significantly – cases and test positivity have fallen markedly and the April-02 variant does not seem to be as commonly present as in Glasgow and some other parts of the country. I can therefore confirm that Moray will now move down to Level 2, taking effect from midnight tonight. This has been made possible by the efforts of local public health teams, their partners, and of course the public – and I am grateful to all of them.
Travel restrictions update
“Extensive public health measures have been deployed in Glasgow city, including enhanced testing and vaccination in the areas with the highest rates of COVID – especially the G41 and G42 postcodes – and enhanced contact tracing has been put in place. Despite all of the efforts that have been made in the last 10 days, however, cases in Glasgow are still rising and we are fairly certain the increase is being driven by the April-02 variant. We are confident that the major public health efforts which are underway will be effective – and that they will bring levels of the virus back under control – but they need a bit longer to do that.
“We also need a bit more time to be more confident that vaccination will stop rising case numbers today becoming sharply rising hospital and severe illness numbers a couple of weeks from now.
“I know how unwelcome Glasgow remaining in Level 3 is for individuals and businesses, but I genuinely hope it will not be for too much longer, and all of us who do live in Glasgow can play our part in getting this under control as soon as possible.
“While the case rates per 100,000 in Glasgow and East Renfrewshire look similar, the total number of cases in East Renfrewshire – because it’s a smaller area – is significantly smaller than in Glasgow. More importantly, many more of the cases that have been reported in the last week in East Renfrewshire can be traced to specific household clusters than is the case in Glasgow, where transmission appears to be much more widespread. That means we think strong and targeted public health measures have more of a chance of stemming the rise, without the need to use wider restrictions.
“We know there are particularly serious outbreaks of the April-02 variant in three specific English local authority areas – Bedford, Bolton, and Blackburn with Darwen. For that reason, from Monday onwards, we are imposing hopefully temporary Travel restrictions update between Scotland and those three local authority areas in England. If you are planning to visit friends or relatives, or to stay in those areas, you must delay your visit. We hope that these rules and guidelines will not be in place for very long, but at the moment they are a further way of reducing the risk that people will bring the April-02 variant into Scotland from those locations.”
Level 2 restrictions will apply across all of mainland Scotland from midnight tonight 21 May 2021, with the exception of Glasgow City local authority area. Travel to, and from, Glasgow continues to be prohibited other than for permitted reasons.
Nicola Sturgeon has completed appointments to her new ministerial team.
Consisting of 10 Cabinet Secretaries, including the First Minister, the Scottish Cabinet will be supported by 15 Junior Ministers.
First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon Minister for Drugs Policy, Angela Constance
Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Covid Recovery, John Swinney Minister for Parliamentary Business, George Adam
Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy, Kate Forbes Minister for Just Transition, Employment and Fair Work (who will also work alongside the Net Zero Secretary), Richard Lochhead Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism and Enterprise, Ivan McKee Minister for Public Finance, Planning and Community Wealth, Tom Arthur
Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, Humza Yousaf Minister for Public Health, Women’s Health and Sport, Maree Todd Minister for Mental Wellbeing and Social Care, Kevin Stewart
Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, Shirley-Anne Somerville Minister for Children and Young People, Clare Haughey Minister for Higher Education and Further Education, Youth Employment and Training, Jamie Hepburn
Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero, Energy and Transport, Michael Matheson Minister for Environment, Biodiversity and Land Reform (who will also work alongside the Rural Affairs Secretary), Mairi McAllan Minister for Transport, Graeme Dey
Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Keith Brown Minister for Community Safety, Ash Denham
Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government, Shona Robison Minister for Equalities and Older People, Christina McKelvie Minister for Social Security and Local Government, Ben MacPherson
Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Islands, Mairi Gougeon
Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, External Affairs and Culture, Angus Robertson Minister for Culture, Europe and International Development, Jenny Gilruth
