Grants and funding for business

Grants of up to £1000 for Leadership & management skills, for businesses in the East of England, the East Midlands or West Midlands. See details at the Leadership and management Advisory service or contact Vision4business .

Evolve Mentoring offers you a partnership with an experienced business leader built on personal goals and achievable targets.Find our more or contact Vision4business.

Find Grants and Funding. Find our where to look for grants, funding, and business support.

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General Information on funding and grants. If you are starting a small business in England, or already trading , Business Link provides a range of free business support services, as well as information on funding and grants typically for computers, training, consultancy, website development, marketing and other areas of business development .

Public, private businesses, charitable, and voluntary and community sectorsThe Grantnet website has regularly updated information on grants and funding for UK businesses.

The information on GRANTnet comprises in excess of 5,000 funding schemes that  are available in the UK from European and national sources, directed at the  .

Voluntary , community and not for profit organisations  Funding central provides information on grants, loans and finance.

Small Business advice

Business Link.Business Support from Business Link, free advice, and information on grants, support, and business resources, for people starting small businesses, as well as for established small and medium sized businesses

Business Link

Companies House. information on limited liability partnerships, and setting up a limited company from Companies House

Companies House- forming a business

HMRC & Taxation. information for businesses and self employed at HMRC

HM Revenue & Customs

eBusiness. ebusiness club in the east midlands, helping businesses to make the most of technologies, including free events, workshops, training, as well as information on effective website development, computer software and systems

eBusiness Club (East Midlands)

Business Planning. Tips on Business Planning from Vision4Business

Business Planning Tips

Business advice & Consultancy services for Leicester & Leicestershire businesses.

• Purpose of Business Planning
• Using Business Plans
• Questions about Business plans
• Business Planning checklist
• marketing checklist
• Business Development tips

Creative Businesses. Advice for creative businesses Find information on arts related grants, funding and schemes, Creative Leicestershire provides small business support for the arts, media & design sector in Leicestershire and Rutland.

Web hosting & resources

Keyword Research from wordtracker

Domain registration & web hosting

Free keyword Tool

Internet Marketing Tips

• Website performance tips
• online marketing strategy
• Web page content
• Market assessment
• web page statistics
• Advertising

Books & software

Computers & Technology

Web sites and online marketing

IT news- from Computer weekly

Computer Technology from PC-PRO

Technology Whitepapers (from ZDnet)