If you are thinking about starting a business in Hillingdon Borough or would like to grow your existing business, we would love to help you.
Start Your Own Business in Hillingdon Borough contains resources and the information that will help give your venture the best chance of success. It also highlights organisations who offer friendly advice and the services that you are likely to need as a new startup or local business owner.
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There is plenty of help for startups in Hillingdon Borough but where can it be found?
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We work in partnership with local businesses from the smallest sole trader to the largest multinational, to provide access to a wide variety of informative networking events and seminars of interest to the business community.
We offer business advice and support and access to a range of training opportunities and aim to keep our members informed of key local planning and inward investment programmes.
All our members have their own page on our website and are encouraged to share members offers which we hope will help them to showcase their business and to obtain new opportunities through our network of members.
HCC is committed to ensuring that the local community thrives by giving local companies the tools to both set up and expand in the growing local economy.
We are happy to promote anyone who is prepared to offer friendly support to local start-ups.
Our local partners have been kind enough to help us and are keen to help you too.
Getting it right from the start can help to prevent problems later.
To help you with this we have created a vast selection of resources and they are all completely free!
You don't know what you don't know!
The prospect of starting a new business can be incredibly exciting but should be approached with care. You have probably heard scary stories about how many start-ups fail in the early stages. You can make sure that you are not one of them by learning as much as possible before you launch. Over the years, we have collected lots of articles which will show you what has worked well for other start-ups and the putfalls to avoid.
Download the 2024 edition of our Free Start Your Own Business guide
An interactive step-by-step guide which also includes all of the most important subjects covered in an easy-to-read way with links to useful online articles and relevant contacts.
The idea of starting your own business can be incredibly exciting and who can blame you for being tempted?
However, the sad truth is that far too many new enterprises fail in the early stages. Our aim is to make sure that you don't become one of them.
This guide explains the key start-up subjects in simple English.
There is also plenty of help available in the area and much of it is free - please do make the most of it.
'You don't know what you don't know' is a phrase that is so applicable to starting a new business.
Hillingdon Borough is a great place for start-ups but your chances of success are dramatically improved if you make the most of the support that is available locally. Click on logos to visit their websites.
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100's of free startup articles
We have created a collection of 100s of startup articles to help anyone with whatever stage they are on with their business journey. Hundreds of thousands of people have gone before you and we can learn from what they got right and avoid the things that have been proved not to work so well.
You can see the full list of 'articles' at: How to start a business