Business start-ups
Advice on starting a business
If you have an idea, and you think you can turn it into a business, we can help. We offer a range of advice & guidance to people who want to start a business based in Newham.
Getting started
To get your ideas off the ground, you need to research your market, assess your competitors and start preparing a business plan. Getting advice and information on the different aspects of running a business is vital to your success. This can be daunting. To make it easier for you, we have put together a list of organisations and companies who can provide all the necessary support. Most of this is free of charge but in some cases a small fee is payable.
‘I’ve never regretted the process of planning. You plan, you try and the trying gives you feedback. Then you plan again, you try and you get feedback. That's it.’
Darryl Powis - Guitar Tuition East London, Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2021
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Acas |
Acas aims to improve working life through better employment relations, helping employers and employees to solve problems and work together effectively. |
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Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) |
BEIS is a government department supported by 42 agencies and public bodies. Backing enterprise and long-term growth, generating cleaner, homegrown energy and unleashing the UK as a science superpower through innovation. |
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Entrepreneurial Spark |
Entrepreneurial Spark is a purpose-led accelerator for entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurial Spark (ESpark) is a free business accelerator offering business support to start-ups. Having established an ESpark London Hub in Islington, and inspired by open business models like Linux, Wikipedia and Roblox, ESpark is developing a platform to deliver free, focussed human support on demand. This is due to launch soon. |
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Enterprise Nation |
Enterprise Nation provides expert advice and support for small businesses. Currently offering the StartUp UK programme to help start or grow your business.
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e-learning videos
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Upcoming Events: Saturday 9 July 2022 StartUp UK Saturday: one day business class in London Bridge Click here for tickets
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Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) |
The Federation of Small Businesses is a business organisation representing SMEs. As a start-up, once you are up and running you may wish to review the membership support service available from the FSB. As a member, you can get access to a whole host of benefits such as the FSB Legal Hub, which offers legal documents (templates, policies, HR documents). |
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Newham Council Funding for community projects. |
Facilitates grants and funding options available through its partnerships with major local employers. |
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HMRC |
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs is a non-ministerial government department offering businesses advice and financial help from government-backed schemes.
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You can watch videos, sign up for email alerts and register for free webinars. You can also get:
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www.gov.uk/business-support-helpline
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London Business Hub |
The London Business Hub is the Mayor of London one-stop shop for businesses, packed full of impartial, free advice to help with any issues that you might be facing.
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National Enterprise Network |
This membership organisation offers support to start-ups and SMEs. Their search tool can be used to identify local support. |
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www.nationalenterprisenetwork.org/
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Prince’s Trust Enterprise Programme |
The Prince's Trust supports 18-30 year olds. |
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Queen Mary University of London |
Queen Mary University of London is delivering an initiative called ‘qNomics’, in which third year and masters’ students from the School of Economics & Finance provide free financial advice to start-ups and entrepreneurs on the challenges that they are facing. |
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Small Business Saturday |
Small Business Saturday is a grassroots, non-commercial campaign initiated by American Express, which promotes the shop local ethos across communities. |
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Start Up Donut |
Start Up Donut is a supportive community and a business accelerator for small business owners and people with a start-up idea. |
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Transmit Startups |
Transmit Startups is a national delivery partner of the British Business Bank for Start Up Loans, a government-backed scheme to encourage new entrepreneurs with resources |
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UMi |
UMi supports business subscribers to find and collate information.
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E- Business Support Programme with Newham College
In partnership with Newham College we are delivering our E-Business Support Programme to help you develop your digital skills and knowledge to help grow your business.
Throughout this programme you will have a dedicated business advisor who is an expert in supporting SMEs and all areas of E-Business. Your advisor will create a tailored programme of support specific to your business needs to help you implement E-Business solutions.
What you can expect:
- enhance your digital and online presence
- maximise your use of social media
- increase sales to grow your business
- manage increased digital risk through improved security and back-up systems
- improve your customer service and systems
- improve internal and external communication
- up-skill your workforce.
If you have been trading for a minimum of six months, please get in touch at OurNewhamBandE@newham.gov.uk to register your interest.
Our useful guide The British Library Intellectual Property Centre (BIPC) supports small business owners, entrepreneurs and inventors. Their team is here to help you take the right steps to start up, protect and grow your business. Business owners, with plans to scale-up, can benefit from £10,000 worth of free support through the Innovating for Growth.
Contact us
You can call us on 020 3373 7373 or email us at OurNewhamBandE@newham.gov.uk