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How to Start a Business in Doncaster

Free start-up resources and useful local contacts.

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How to Start a Business in Doncaster

Starting a business in Doncaster

If you are thinking about starting a business in Doncaster or would like to grow your existing business, we would love to help you.

Start Your Own Business in Doncaster 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.

Grants | Networking groups | Business advice | Mentoring | Co-working spaces

Starting a business in Doncaster

Local help for startups

There is plenty of help for startups in Doncaster but where can it be found?

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Local partners

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.

Free Startup Resources

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!

Latest articles

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.

Free Startup Guide

Start Your Own Business in 2021

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.

Read more about what our Free guide contains and how you can download it.
Starting a business in Doncaster

Key Contacts in Doncaster

'You don't know what you don't know' is a phrase that is so applicable to starting a new business.

Doncaster 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.

Web design

Boost Your Website
We are a web design company offering a range of web design and marketing services. All our designs are search engine friendly and look great on all devices. We aim to make clean and modern web designs and SEO, affordable for smaller businesses, we also have a regularly updated blog which aims to help anyone interested in web design, SEO and marketing.
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Coaching

The Rebel School
We make starting a business achievable for anyone and everyone. Since 2011, our courses have been showing a new way of thinking and practical ways to get your business idea off the ground. With over 11,000 rebels helped so far and the recent honour of winning The Queens Award for Enterprise for Promoting Opportunity, we are proving that business has changed and needs to be taught differently.
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Funding

Commercial Finance Partnership
Access to Business Finance: Secured Loans, Unsecured Loans, Commercial Mortgage, Revolving Credit, Invoice Discounting, Recovery Loan Scheme. Asset finance: Hire Purchase, Leasing, New Purchase, Refinance, Capital Raising, Recovery Loan Scheme. With over 130 years of COMBINED EXPERIENCE, we have the know-how you need.
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Online Marketing

Lojix
We are a small digital marketing agency based in Barnsley helping small to medium sized local businesses with their online marketing strategies.
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Accountancy

GBM Accounts
GBM Accounts are a small firm of accountants in Old Cantley, Doncaster. We are friendly and approachable, offering support to small businesses. Our focus is to save you tax and provide piece of mind.
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Marketing

Cannon PR
Cannon PR are a results drive PR company, based in Rotherham and helping business throughout the UK
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Networking

The Lonely Middle Club - From Startup Hive
Starting a business is exciting, and succeeding is rewarding, but what about the bit between? You know, that bit that’s full of self-doubt, endless repetition and feelings of being out of your comfort zone? We call it ‘The Lonely Middle’ and it’s one of the hardest parts of creating a successful business. We know, we’ve been there. So, we created The Lonely Middle Club to help you through it. Each month you get exclusive content to help give you the knowledge and inspiration to succeed. Plus, you get access to a private members-only Facebook group where you can get advice and network with small business owners who are going through similar challenges to you. If you want even more, you can download our 51 worksheets, guides, and journals all designed to do one thing, and one thing only… help you get through ‘The Lonely Middle’ and achieve your business goals. Visit our website today to join the club and benefit from our members price lock and full no questions asked money-back guarantee.
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Networking

Doncaster Chamber of Commerce
The Chamber is an award winning independent membership organisation that has supported and represented Doncasters private sector for the last seventy years. It is our primary objective to help your business prosper and succeed, whatever the size or sector of your company. In a recent business survey (August 2014), 90% of respondents said that they would recommend the Doncaster Chamber to other businesses! Address: Doncaster Chamber, Keepmoat Stadium, Stadium Way, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN4 5JW
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Start-up articles

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