Starting up

Support for starting up in the South West

• Help with starting a business
• Business information team
• Local specialist services
• Sector support
• Finance
• Environmental Support

Before you start

• Considering starting up?
• Starting a business - meeting the challenges
• Finding and managing the money

Forming and naming your business

• Business names & structures
• Buying a business

Your workplace

• Choosing and setting up premises
• Keeping the workplace safe and your employees healthy

Taxes, payroll & returns

• Taxes, records and returns - getting started
• VAT
• Income, Corporation and other business taxes
• PAYE and National Insurance

Employing people

• Becoming an employer for the first time

Managing your business

• Sales and marketing
• Financial control, operations and transport
• Contracts and suppliers
• IT and e-commerce for start ups
• Importing and exporting
• Protecting your business & ideas
• Choosing advisers and services

Starting up - site map