
Business Planning Support
- Biz Plans offer a range of resources for creating a well prepared business plan, including a business plan wizard and cash-flow wizard.
www.bizplans.co.uk - An easy way to create successful business plans, developed by professionals for use across all industry sectors for today's businesses.
www.bizplanwizard.co.uk - Business Link, will be able to put you in touch with your local business support agency, and a local business adviser.
www.businesslink.gov.uk - Bplans provides solutions to build and grow your business. It also contains the largest single collection of free sample business plans online.
www.bplans.co.uk
Business/ Industry Profiles and Research Resources
- An Essential Resource which provides access to over 800 reports and guides to help research a business idea or market, write a business plan, start up a small business.
- UK Roll. Offers UK electoral roll searches and reports.
www.tracesmart.co.uk - Fresh Minds is a research company providing companies with fast and accurate market research and analysis, carried out by their bank of Minds, a collection of graduates, MBAs and PhDs from Europe's top universities.
www.freshminds.co.uk - NOP Research Group is part of NOP World, one of the world's largest market research and business information companies, offering both custom and syndicated research.
www.nop.co.uk - FreePint is a network of 66796 information researchers globally. Post your tricky research questions or sign up for newsletters.
www.freepint.com - Specialist online publishers of market information reports, all of which are listed on the site along with details of additional services they offer.
www.keynote.co.uk - MORI - Market & Opinion Research International - One of the largest agencies in the UK and well known for their widely published polls. Expansive site detailing all of their operations. Also offer a free weekly email; 'MORI Poll Digest'.
www.mori.com - Nua Internet Surveys - Authoritative and widely cited source for Internet statistics covering a wide range of topics with a strong global focus.
www.nua.ie - Updated daily and based on stats from over 65,000 sites. Everything from search engines, browsers to screen resolutions, ISPs.
www.statmarket.com - Credit Expert - Free Experian Credit Report.
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Company Formation and Government Sites
- Company Wizard specialises in Company Formation Support.
www.company-wizard.co.uk - Department of Trade & Industry.
www.dti.gov.uk - The Inland Revenue - for tax information and forms.
www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk - HM Customs & Excise - for VAT information.
www.hmce.gov.uk - Companies House for information about all registered companies and what you need to know as a limited company.
www.companieshouse.gov.uk - Trade Mark and Patent Registrar.
www.patent.gov.uk - Own-it.org: Protect your brand identity and intellectual property. Own-it.org offers free advice, events and information on copyright, trademarks, patents and licensing.
www.own-it.org
Expert Advice
Our range of specialist expert advisers will help Striding Out Members through the development of your business with a range of tips, articles and advice.
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- Branding
- PR
- Marketing
- Legal
- Finance
- Management
- Human Resources
In addition to our online support, our professional advisers provide ongoing one to one support and their details can be found in the Dedicated Supplier Directory.