Useful Links and Resources for your Business

We can spend an inordinate amount of time searching the internet for information.

Here are a few links which can help sole traders and SME’s:

Starting and developing your business

An enormous amount of information on starting and growing a business can be found online at Business Link‘s new portal.

Want to consider the steps to starting your business? Have a look at www.startups.co.uk and www.smallbusiness.co.uk.

Finance

Looking for finance? Check out Finance Worcestershire.

Impetus is your local Community Development Finance Institution. A source of enterprise finance making loans to applicants who have difficulty securing finance from other lenders.

Match funded finance for training and development from The Leadership and Management Advisory Service.

Need investment? Have a look at Crowd Cube.

Networking opportunities

WiRE (Women in Rural Enterprise) is all about women supporting women through networking & inspiring one another.

Free networking and support across Worcestershire and the West Midlands from Find it in Worcestershire.

Every Woman is the UK’s largest community of women in business.

General business resources

Businessballs, free work and life learning, is intended to be ethical, practical, innovative, compassionate and enjoyable.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission can be found here.

ACAS promote employment relations and HR excellence.