If you are thinking about starting a business in Woking or would like to grow your existing business, we would love to help you.
Start Your Own Business in Woking 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 Woking but where can it be found?
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Woking Works is a partnership between Woking Borough Council’s Business Liaison Team and five key local
businesses, two independent business advisors and local business organisations, which is designed to
support business people as they live, work and play in Woking Borough.
We are all working towards the same aim: to encourage start-ups, support existing business and attract new
businesses through relocation, in order to boost the growth, prosperity and vitality of our ambitious Borough.
Woking Works offers a wide range of free services to the business community:
• Expert advice for start-ups.
• Support for established SMEs via partner-led business surgeries.
• Networking events such as breakfast briefings and seminars.
• Workshops on essential topics like data protection and the global economy.
• Relocation advice and support, including a commercial premises portal.
• Organisation and hosting of inspirational events, such as TEDxWoking.
Woking Works has partnered with recognised and influential companies from across the Borough to help make
Woking a thriving and prosperous business hub. These include specialists in IT, law, marketing, accountancy and
banking.
Find out more about Woking Works’ partners, business services, and events at wokingworks.com
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.
Woking 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