If you are thinking about starting a business in Waverley or would like to grow your existing business, we would love to help you.
Start Your Own Business in Waverley 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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Download the 2025 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.
FREE business support for new and existing businesses in Waverley Borough
Whether you have a new business idea that you would like to explore, are looking for ways to increase your turnover, grow your existing business or just do things more efficiently, we would love to help.
Thanks to funding from Waverley Borough Council, our in-house team of advisors can offer you FREE, impartial business advice.
• Free advice and mentoring
• Access to funding and grants
• Finance, bookkeeping, tax
• Finding new clients, marketing, web, social media
• Post-Covid business planning and/or pivoting
• New business start-up
As a business owner, you will have specific strengths and areas you would like to improve. Our advisors who will work with you to identify what would most help your business.
Free Business Health Check
Our comprehensive package of personalised support includes our a bespoke interactive business ‘health check’, which, with our guidance, will enable you to have a clear and honest overview of your business as it is today. As well as highlighting strengths, it will also identify the areas which will need to be addressed if you are going to achieve maximum success in the future.
The package will include initial and ongoing 1:1 support designed to put the findings and recommendations into action and to maximise the chances of long-term sustainability.
Try the Health Check at new-business.co.uk (free and totally confidential)
About us
The IncuHive Group is a business incubation and co-working organisation which offers business support, mentoring, start-up investment, networking, training, office space, and desk space. We have a dedicated full-time team who work on delivery of our support and mentoring services, which are at the heart of everything we do.
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!
There is plenty of help for startups in Waverley but where can it be found?
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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.
'You don't know what you don't know' is a phrase that is so applicable to starting a new business.
Waverley 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