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Access to Finance
- Alternative Business Funding provides free and easy access to selecting alternative business funding for SME’s – especially those with an interest in alternatives to traditional bank loans or asset finance.
- Business is Great Britain Support, advice and inspiration for growing your business
- Funding Circle Get a fast, flexible loan, up to £1,000,000 for all requirements. Bypass the banks and have your loan funded by people across the UK.
- Funding for Social Enterprises The Big Venture Challenge is a national competition to find the 25 most ambitious social entrepreneurs in England
- Gov.UK Information about starting up and running a business in the UK, including help if you’re self employed or a sole trader.
- Invest Sefton Serving the needs of Sefton’s business community
Becoming Self Employed
- Enterprise Nation
- Gov.UK Information about starting up and running a business in the UK, including help if you’re self employed or a sole trader.
- HMRC guide to self employment
Blogroll
- Trading Standards – Buying with Confidence All the businesses on this website have been vetted and approved by Trading Standards to ensure that they operate in a legal, honest and fair way.
Business Start Up/Becoming self-employed
- Gov.UK Information about starting up and running a business in the UK, including help if you’re self employed or a sole trader.
- HMRC E-Learning Tutorial 'Starting Your Own Business' Have you just started in business and become self-employed?
- HMRC guide to self employment
- Princes Trust
Business Support
- Active Travel Sefton Active Travel is all about encouraging and enabling you to move around your local area on foot, by bike or by sustainable transport.
- Alternative Business Funding provides free and easy access to selecting alternative business funding for SME’s – especially those with an interest in alternatives to traditional bank loans or asset finance.
- Business is Great Britain Support, advice and inspiration for growing your business
- Federation of Small Businesses
- Funding Circle Get a fast, flexible loan, up to £1,000,000 for all requirements. Bypass the banks and have your loan funded by people across the UK.
- Gov.UK Information about starting up and running a business in the UK, including help if you’re self employed or a sole trader.
- GREAT Business Website Set up the GREAT Business Website, a single website that brings together all Government services to business in one place
- Growing Business growingbusiness website with tips on how to grow, funding, operations, finance & law, sales & marketing and more
- Help for Growing Small Businesses
- Information & Guidance from Gov.uk
- Merseyside Special Investment Fund (MSIF)
- Sefton Council for Voluntary Service Sefton CVS is a registered charity providing specialist infrastructure and support to the VCF sector that encourage and support independent resilience and sustainable communities in the borough of Sefton.
- The Association of Business Schools
- The Womens Organisation
Colleges/Universities
Councils
Employment Advice
- Business is Great Britain Support, advice and inspiration for growing your business
Employment advice and support
Environmental support
- BRE BRE Global has launched a new framework standard for the responsible sourcing of construction products – BRE Environmental and Sustainability Standard (BES) 6001: 2008
- Carbon Trust's SME Carbon Network launch of the Carbon Trust’s SME Carbon Network. The network is a free online community for SMEs designed to help share knowledge and best practice relating to reducing carbon emissions and energy costs (based on the concept of the Public Sector Carbon Ne
- Decentralised Energy Knowledge Base (DEKB) The DEKB is an information source for anyone in business who wants to make and use their own energy – including practitioners, consultants, advisors, agencies and energy consumers and developers.
- Department of Energy and Climate Change The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) was created in October 2008, bringing together energy policy previously with BERR and Defra.
- Energy Saving Trust Boiler specifications and sizing
- Free Environmental Guidance NetRegs provides free environmental guidance for small businesses in the UK. They will help you to understand what you need to do to comply with environmental legislation and protect the environment and even help you to save you money !
- NISP NISP links companies together, enabling savings by sharing resources
- Part L Part L Building Regulations- Conservation of Fuel and Power …
- The Association of Business Schools
- The Carbon Trust A not for profit company providing specialist support to help business and the public sector boost business returns by cutting carbon emissions, saving energy and commercialising low carbon technologies
- The Renewable Energy Centre Information and advice on energy saving alternatives in the UK.
- UK Green Building Council Our mission is to dramatically improve the sustainability of the built environment, by radically transforming the way it is planned, designed, constructed, maintained and operated.
- WRAP Helps individuals, businesses and local authorities to reduce waste and recycle more, making better use of resources and helping to tackle climate change. Free guidance and tools to help you reduce and manage your waste and materials are available
Export and Expanding Markets
- Business is Great Britain Support, advice and inspiration for growing your business
- UKTI (United Kingdom Trade & Investment) Export services
Funding
- Alternative Business Funding provides free and easy access to selecting alternative business funding for SME’s – especially those with an interest in alternatives to traditional bank loans or asset finance.
- Business is Great Britain Support, advice and inspiration for growing your business
- Gov.UK Information about starting up and running a business in the UK, including help if you’re self employed or a sole trader.
Help for Businesses
- Business is Great Britain Support, advice and inspiration for growing your business
Invest Sefton General
Liverpool City Region
- Liverpool &Sefton Chambers of Commerce Supports the development, growth and sustained economic viability of chamber members and the wider business community of Liverpool City Region
- Liverpool Airport
- Liverpool Local Enterprise Partnership (LLEP) An organisation which was established in late October 2010 by the government to help stimulate economic growth, create jobs and increase productivity. The Liverpool City Region Local Enterprise Partnership, or LEP, is a private sector led Board with polit
- Liverpool Vision
- Mersey Maritime
- The Port of Liverpool
National Agencies
- Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) Sector Skills Council for construction
- HMRC – E Learning tutorial E-Learning Tutorial ‘Starting your own business’-URL address
- HMRC – Library of Fact sheets Fact sheets for topical subjects
- HMRC – Webinars- Online Live seminars On line live seminars Allows questions at the end. You need to book on the chosen date and the schedule is updated regularly
Tender Opportunities
- CompeteFor CompeteFor is a free service that enables businesses to compete for contract opportunities linked to the London 2012 Games and other major public and private sector buying organisations.
- My Tenders Management of Tenders whether a purchaser or supplier
- Supplying Government The new opportunities portal for lower-value contracts – supporting UK businesses to tender for government opportunities
- The Chest THE Chest is the north west’s public sector procurement portal and has been created with funding from the North West Centre of Excellence.