When you’re starting in business We’ll provide you with free help to plan your business, prepare for launch and successfully navigate the first few months. We’ll answer your questions, help you develop essential business skills and link you to ‘new business’ experts - giving you the best chance of success. Over the last three years we’ve helped over 15,000 people thinking of starting a business and 7,000 young businesses.

Why not try our online business review?
This quick business focussed assessment of your plans and performance will produce a dedicated set of priority actions, a plan of support and links to an experienced business adviser:

• If you are planning to start a business - click here for a review and plan to take the first steps into business
• If you started your business in the last year  - click here for a review of your current performance and plans for the future

To hear a description of our starting in business service 
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To hear from two young entrepreneurs:

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Support available specifically for people looking to start a business, or those in the early months of trading includes:

• A free enquiry service that will find the answers to all your questions
• A free, comprehensive ‘no-nonsense’ guide to starting out in business
• An extensive on-line service - with over 200 downloadable guides and reviews to help evaluate your idea and your business skills
• ‘Awareness’ workshops - free, local events that introduce you to self-employment, test your idea, highlight legal issues and make sure you have your finances and business plan properly prepared. Listen to our Awareness Session podcast  Click here
• ‘Key Issue’ workshops to help you manage critical tasks, including Planning, Sales and Finance
• Specialist advisory support for ambitious businesses - providing a one-to-one review of your business performance and a development plan
• EVOKE - a unique and bespoke service for those businesses with the potential to achieve sales of £1m within three years