Useful Links
Business Support Solutions: http://www.business-support-solutions.co.uk
Business Support Solutions offers a direct route to the advice, information and resources you need to help your business improve and grow. We offer sound, professional advice and high quality, value-for-money services, meeting a wide range of business needs.
Business Support Solutions works in close partnership with Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce and can be a vital asset to your business, whatever your size, sector or stage of development
Business Link: http://www.businesslink.gov.uk
Practical advice for businesses:
Starting up, Finance and Grants, Taxes, returns and payroll, emplying people, health, safety and premises, environment and efficiencey, explointing your ideas, IT and e-commerc, sales and marketing, international trade, growing your business, buying and selling a business and regulations, licences and contact specific to your business area.
Inland Revenue: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk
HMRC is responsible for collecting the bulk of tax revenue, as well as paying Tax Credits and Child Benefits, and strengthening the UK's frontiers. Has information for businesses covering tax and VAT.
Tameside Council Procurement Concordat: http://www.tameside.gov.uk/procurement
The Council is committed to delivering locally the National Procurement Strategy for Local Government. The strategy asks local authorities to adopt a small and medium sized enterprise (SME) friendly procurement concordat and to encourage a mixed range of suppliers in order to help develop and stimulate a varied and competitive marketplace.
The concordat sets out the actions that local authorities will take to make their contracts more accessible to SMEs. Although the principles should relate to all SMEs, the concordat is particularly focused on small businesses of less than 50 employees.
The Concordat can be downloaded from the Tameside Business Family Press section. For other Procurement information please visit the link above.
Information Commissioner (Data Protection issues): http://www.ico.gov.uk
The Information Commissioner's Office is the UK's independent authority set up to promote access to official information and to protect personal information
Equality and Human Rights Commission: http://www.equalityhumanrights.com
The Equality and Human Rights Commission champions equality and human rights for all, working to eliminate discrimination, reduce inequality, protect human rights and to build good relations, ensuring that everyone has a fair chance to participate in society. On 1 October 2007 the three equality commissions merged into the new Equality and Human Rights Commission:
- Commission for Racial Equality (CRE)
- Disability Rights Commission (DRC)
- Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC)
The websites of these commissions have also been incorporated into the new Equality and Human Rights Commission website
Pinsent Mason/Out-Law.com: http://www.out-law.com
OUT-LAW has 8,000 pages of free legal news and guidance, mostly on IT and e-commerce issues. These issues can affect any organisation, and OUT-LAW is as much for those in a software start-up as it is for the compliance team at a bank.
Fresh Business Thinking: http://www.freshbusinessthinking.com
The online resource for entrepreneurs. It contains many useful articles about current business issues.
Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform: http://www.berr.gov.uk
BERR helps ensure business success in an increasingly competitive world. BERR is the voice for business across Government. This website provides information about BERR’s priorities and policies. BERR and its delivery partners also provide a range of practical assistance to business.
