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Theme |
Tool |
Description |
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Starting up |
Business start-up organiser |
Compile a personalised list of starting-up tasks and access resources to help you complete each one |
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Create a personal development plan |
Use our interactive tool to assess your management and leadership skills and create a personal development plan |
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Finance and grants |
Assess the health of your business |
Use out interactive tool to asses how well your business is performing and get help for those areas highlighted as a risk. |
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Get the right finance for your business needs |
helps you choose the right type of finance for your business |
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Taxes, returns and payroll |
When to register for VAT |
helps you find out whether you need to register for VAT and how to do it |
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Tax deadline email alerts |
Keep up to date with your tax deadlines using our key date reminders |
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Employing people |
Create a written statement of employment |
Use our interactive tool to create a document including everything you have to give your new employee in writing |
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Follow the correct disciplinary procedure |
will show you what you can do to resolve a disciplinary issue |
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Choose the right type of flexible working |
helps you understand the flexible working schemes that would best fit your business |
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Handling potential redundancies |
helps you understand the implications of redundancies within your business |
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Check your legal responsibilities when taking on an employee |
helps you to ensure candidates you have selected can work legally and safely |
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Health, safety and premises |
Health & safety performance indicator |
helps you to assess how well you're managing health and safety risks |
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Licence and permit checklist |
Use our licence and permit checklist to find out which licences and permits could apply to your business |
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Regulation checklist |
Use our interactive tool to get a personalised checklist of regulations that apply to your business linked to plain English explanations |
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Regulation updates |
At-a-glance guidance about new and changing regulations that affect small and medium-sized businesses |
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Exploit your ideas |
Find out how to protect your ideas |
will outline the best ways for you to protect your intellectual property |
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IT & ecommerce |
Assess and minimise your IT risks |
helps you to deal with the risks facing your IT systems |
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Get the right website for your business |
will help you discover whether a website will help your business |
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Identify the benefits of electronic learning |
will help you to assess whether electronic learning would be right for your business |
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Sales & marketing |
Discover who your most valuable customers are |
will help you to analyse the behaviour of customers to identify which are the most valuable to your business |
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Identify potential sales channels |
offers guidance on the sales channels most likely to benefit your business |
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Choosing the right advertising media |
helps you identify the right media for your business and develop your own media plan |
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Your type of business |
Your type of business |
Regulations licences and contacts specific to your business area |
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Online transactions with government |
identifies online transactions available to your business & explains how to register and enrol |
