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Agent renews emotional plea for financial support

Government
Will Payne
17 November 2021

Strawberry Holidays founder Kate Holroyd will hand-deliver 68 letters to her local council on Wednesday (17 November) in a desperate bid to secure the financial support she says her business still needs just to make it through to Easter.

'This fight isn’t just for me. It’s for the other travel businesses who find themselves in the same situation,' Holroyd told TTG

The letters represent the 68 emails Holroyd has sent Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council since August when the government allocated councils Additional Restrictions Grant funding to help support businesses that continue to be impacted by the effects of Covid-19.

"I thought I had burnt up, I actually thought I was done at one point this summer with Strawberry," Holroyd told TTG. "It [having to chase the council] ignited something inside me that I didn’t realise I had."

During the pandemic, Holroyd took a second job with AO.com to help support her income, and now works around 80 hours a week.