Financial Support
Tax & VAT
Department Of Trade & Industry
Forming A Limited Company
Import & Export
Health & Safety
Patents, Trade Marks, Copyright and Design right
Trading Standards and Payment
Employment Issues
Legal Help
Innovation
Information Technology
Online Learning
Apprenticeships
Business Plans
A Good Read for SME News
Courses
Other Organisations
Voluntary Sector
Women’s Groups
Business Link Enterprise Agencies
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
GRANT FUNDING
Ten Sixty Six Enterprise
For advice and guidance on grants throughout Hastings and Rother Districts
Tel: 01424 205500 www.1066enterprise.co.uk
Town Centre Management
For advice and guidance on grants in Hastings and St Leonards Town Centres
Tel: 01424 205516 www.hastings-guide.com
Grant Finding
www.J4B.co.uk
LOAN FUNDS AND SUPPORT
Assistance for Businesses throughout Sussex
Capitalise Business Support
Advice, support and loan finance for businesses that are unable to raise
finance through conventional routes
Tel: 0845 6018326 www.capitalise.org
Assistance for Under 30s
Prince’s Trust
Advice and support for disadvantaged young people looking to start a business
Tel: 0800 842842 www.princes-trust.org.uk
Assistance for Over 50s
Prime
The only national initiative dedicated to helping people aged over 50
set up in business
Tel: 0208 765 7833 www.primeinitiative.org.uk
email: prime@ace.org.uk
0800 783 1904 Helpline No.
Other Assistance
Fredericks Foundation
Business mentoring and funding for unemployed, single parents, ex-offenders
Tel: 01276 472 722 www.fredericksfoundation.org
email: mail@fredericksfoundation.net
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TAX and VAT
Paying tax as a Self-Employed person
Inland Revenue Helpline for The Newly Self-Employed
To register as self-employed if you’re going into business as a
sole trader or partnership
Tel: 08459 154 515 www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/leaflets
Inland Revenue Self-Assessment Order Line
Forms, leaflets, fact sheets on self-assessment
Tel: 0845 9000 404
Paying Employee’s tax and National Insurance
New Employer’s Helpline
To register as a new employer and receive a New Employer’s Starter
Pack
Tel: 0845 607 0143 www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/employers
Employer’s Helpline
Advice on paying employee’s tax and National Insurance.
Tel: 08457 143 143 www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/employers
Employer’s Order Line
Forms and guides on paying employee’s tax and National Insurance
contributions as well as sick pay and statutory maternity, paternity and
adoption pay.
Tel: 0845 7646 646 www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk
VAT
HM Customs and Excise
To register for VAT and for advice and forms
Tel: 0845 010 9000 www.hmce.gov.uk
Department of Trade and Industry
For advice and fact sheets: Tel: 0845 0150 010 www.dti.gov.uk
Forming a Limited Company
Companies House
To form a limited company or limited liability partnership and for forms
and guidance
Tel: 0870 3333 636 www.companieshouse.gov.uk
Import and Export
HM Customs and Excise
Tel: 020 7685 5317 www.hmce.gov.uk
SITPRO (Simpler Trades Procedures Board)
Provides an extensive range of publications specifically targeted at small
businesses
Tel: 020 7215 8150 www.sitpro.org.uk
TradeUK
Tel: 020 7925 7810 www.tradeuk.com
Trade Partners UK and Export Information Centre
Tel: 020 7215 8000 www.uktradeinvest.co.uk
Institute of Export
Tel: 020 8462 2134 www.export.co.uk
British Exporters Association (BExA)
Tel: 020 7222 5419 www.bexa.co.uk
British Importers Association (BIA)
Tel: 020 7258 3999 or 0891 200 250
Health and Safety
Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
Tel: 0845 345 0055 www.hse.gov.uk
HSE Books
Free and paid-for-publications on health and safety matters
Tel: 01787 881 165
Patents, Trade Marks, Copyright and Design right
Patent Office
For help in protecting your own ideas and to check that others intellectual
property is not being infringed upon
Tel: 08459 500 505
Intellectual Property Website
Information on intellectual property www.intellectualproperty.gov.uk
Trading Standards and Payment
East Sussex Trading Standards
Tel: 01323 418228 (for business advice/service requests)
Tel: 01323 418200 (General Number)
www.eastsussex.gov.uk/business/tradingstandards
Buy With Confidence
For traders and consumers to help businesses comply with law while improving
consumer protection
Businesses wishing to apply Tel: 01323 418215 (Option
2)
Consumers looking for an Approved Trader 01323 418215 (Option 1)
Email: buywithconfidence@eastsussex.gov.uk
Office of Fair Trading
To apply for a consumer credit licence
Tel: 08457 224 499 Website: www.oft.gov.uk
Better Payment Practice Group
For advice on getting paid on time and guide to late payment legislation
Website: www.payontime.co.uk
Trading Standards Central
One stop shop for consumer protection information in
the UK
Website: www.tradingstandards.gov.uk
Ask Cedric
Ask Cedric is a free website designed to inform and educate business about
a range of trading standards issues and legislation
Website: www.askcedric.org.uk
Employment Issues
Arbitration, Conciliation and Advisory Service
(ACAS)
Guidance on employment issues for both employer and employees; working
to solve problems and improve performance.
Tel: 08457 47 47 47 www.acas.co.uk
Data Protection
Information Commissioner
Guidance on data protection
Tel: 08456 30 60 60 www.dataprotection.gov.uk
Legal Help
Law Society: Lawyers for Your Business
Gives small firms a free half-hour consultation
Tel: 020 7242 1222 www.lfyb.lawsociety.org.uk
Innovation
Innovation Centre Hastings
It is specially designed to help firms with an innovative approach to
business grow and thrive.
Tel: 0845 274 1117 www.Innovationcentrehastings.com
Information Technology
UK Online for Business
Advice and information on using technology in your business
Tel: 0845 715 2000 www.ukonlineforbusiness.gov.uk
E Biz Centre
Advice and information on using technology in your business
Tel: 01424 201948 www.ebizcentre.co.uk
Online Learning
Learn Direct
Run on-line courses for the improvement of ICT skills
Tel: 0800 100 900 www.learndirect.co.uk
Apprenticeships
Advice on apprenticeship opportunities and information
Tel: 08000 150 600 www.apprenticeships.org.uk
Business Plans
For business plans pro formas visit different banks
or try our website under download centre which you will find in Advice
or Business Start Up sections:
www.1066enterprise.co.uk
A Good Read for SME News
As recommended by Business Advisor, Issue No. 20 2004
Mondays - Daily Telegraph
Tuesdays - Financial Times
Thursdays – The Times, Daily Express
Saturdays – The Times
Sundays – The Sunday Times/ Mail on Sunday/ Sunday
Express/ The Observer
Real Business www.realbusiness.co.uk
Better Business www.betterbusiness.co.uk
Director www.directormagazine.co.uk
New Business www.newbusiness.co.uk
www.startups.co.uk
www.businesseurope.com
www.bizhot.co.uk
www.everywoman.co.uk
Courses
Support to Business workshops – FREE or subsidised
Ten Sixty Six Enterprise
Runs a wide range of workshops and seminars for start up and established
businesses, for more information see our training brochure or contact
Tel: 01424 205500 www.1066enterprise.co.uk
Inland Revenue
The IR run a number of free half day workshops covering issues of self-employment,
tax, employees and statutory rights
Tel: 0845 6070 143 www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk
On-Line Learning
Learn Direct
Tel: 0800 100 900 www.Learndirect.co.uk
Other Organisations
Hastings Chamber of Commerce
The Chamber for Hastings and St Leonards, although applications are welcome
from businesses throughout Hastings and Rother areas.
Linda Williams, Summerfields Business Centre, Bohemia Road, Hastings
Tel: 01424 205500 www.1066enterprise.co.uk
Federation of Small Businesses (Brighton and
Hove Branch)
Tel: 01323 482 018 www.fsb.org.uk/regions
email: eastsussexregion@fsbdial.co.uk
Bexhill Chamber of Commerce
Sue Spice, 140 Barnhorn Road, Bexhill, East Sussex TN39 4QG
Email : spicecomms@aol.com
Battle Chamber of Commerce
Colin Smith, Gibbons & Mannington, 39 High Street, Battle, East Sussex
TN33 0EE
Email: chpsmith@hotmail.com
Rye Chamber of Commerce
Sarah Nixon 99 High Street Rye TN31 7JN
Tel: 01797 223127
rye@chamber.fsnet.co.uk
British Chamber of Commerce
www.chamberonline.co.uk
Sussex Enterprise
Tel : 0845 67 888 67 www.sussexenterprise.co.uk
Business Link
Tel: 0845 6009 006 www.businesslink.gov.uk
SEEDA
Organisation for the economic and social development in the South East
of England
Tel: 01483 484 200 www.seeda.co.uk
National Federation of Enterprise Agencies
Tel: 01234 831623 www.smallbusinessadvice.org.uk
UK Online for Business
www.ukonlineforbusiness.gov.uk
Wired Sussex Services
Tel: 01273 692 888
www.wiredsussex.com
email: info@wiredsussex.com
Seaspace
www.seaspace.org.uk
email: info@businessinhastings.com
Tel: 01424 723123
Our Future Hastings & Bexhill
www.ourfuture.org.uk
Government Office for the South East
www.go-se.gov.uk
email: info@gose.gsi.gov.uk
Town Centre Management
www.hastings-guide.com
Visit Hastings
www.visithastings.gov.uk
Hastings & Bexhill Enterprise Hub
The Hastings and Bexhill Enterprise Hub is part of the local regeneration
strategy programme which aims to provide business support and mentoring
for knowledge-based and innovative businesses. It is also part of a network
of 22 similar Hubs throughout the South East of England.
Tel : 01424 205387
www.hastingshub.co.uk
email: rebeccagildea@seeda.co.uk
Voluntary Sector
Hastings Trust
Tel: 01424 446373
www.hastingstrust.com
email: post@hastingstrust.co.uk
Hastings Voluntary Action
Tel: 01424 444 010 www.hastingsvoluntaryaction.org
Rother Voluntary Action
Bexhill Tel 01424 217259 e mail: rvaoffice@btconnect.com
Rye Tel 01797 225466 www.rothervoluntaryaction.org.uk
Women’s Groups
British Association of Women Entrepreneurs
Encourages business development through training, networking and mentoring
schemes and conferences
www.bawe-uk.org
email: bawe.uk@btconnect.com
Tel: 01786 446044
Everywoman
Online network and resources for women business owners
www.everywoman.co.uk
Tel: 0870 746 1800
Women in Business
Networking group for business women
www.wib-sussex.co.uk
Swan Group
Informal women’s networking group based in Sussex
Tel: 0845 644 2940 www.theswangroup.co.uk
Prowess
Offers women’s enterprise support including lobbying for sexual
equality, training and networking
Tel: 01603 762 355
www.prwess.org.uk
email: admin:prowess.org.uk
Business Link Enterprise Agencies
Sussex Enterprise
Tel: 0845 678 8867
www.sussexenterprise.co.uk
email: info@sussexenterprise.co.uk
Eastbourne & District Enterprise Agency
(EDEAL)
Tel: 01323 413 500
www.edeal.org.uk
email: info@edeal.org.uk
The Enterprise Centre West Sussex
Tel: 0845 782 7887
www.enterprise-centre.co.uk
email: info@startupco.co.uk
Newhaven Enterprise Gateway
Tel: 01273 612 927
www.newhavengateway.com
email: info@newhavengateway.com
Adur Enterprise Gateway
Tel: 08450 364 000
www.adurenterprisegateway.co.uk
email: info@adurenterprisegateway.co.uk
Brighton, Hove and Lewes Enterprise Agency
Tel: 01273 666 800
www.bnbusiness.co.uk
The Hub 100
Tel: 01273 666 800
www.thehub100.com
email: info@thehub100.com
Business Link Sussex
Tel: 0845 600 9 006 www.businesslinksussex.co.uk
email: info@businesslinksussex.co.uk