Business Support Helpline
Your business can get advice and financial help from government-backed schemes.
Visit the Government's business support website for more information.
Enterprise Agency of North Kent:
The Enterprise Agency of North Kent is located in Gravesend and offers independent, not for profit, practical business support. This can assist start ups or existing businesses in finding customers, promoting products, writing a business plan, finding premises and employing people, along with a host of other things.
Unit 4, The Courtyard, 7a Manor Road,
Gravesend DA12 1AA
Tel: 01474 327118 Fax: 01474 335884
Federation of Small Businesses:
The Federation of Small Businesses is an organisation that has been established to support small businesses.
Churchill House,
16 Churchill Road,
Dartford,
Kent,
DA4 9DP
Tel: 01322 862724
Website: www.fsb.org.uk
HM Revenue and Customs Advice Team:
The HMRC Advice Team offers a number of free half-day workshops that are particularly useful to new and small businesses.
- Becoming self-employed
- Setting up a Limited Company
- Self Assessment for the self-employed
- Paying your employees
- Calculating directors' National Insurance Contributions
- Paying expenses and giving benefits to employees
- Statutory sick pay
- Statutory payments and leave for maternity, paternity and adoption
- PAYE end of year returns (run March to May)
- Expenses and Benefits end of year returns (run May and June)
- Construction Industry Scheme for Contractors
- Using the Employers' CD-Rom
- Introduction to VAT
Workshops run throughout the country. Included in the London area are courses at Waterloo, Dartford, Woolwich, Bromley and Croydon. For details of other venues and to book, call central bookings on 0300 1231083.
H M Revenue and Customs Advice Team, Riverside House West, Woolwich High St.
London, SE18 6DN
Website: HMRC
Open to Export:
A free, online service from UK Trade and Investment that provides information and advice from experts across the public and private sector to companies who are new to doing business abroad, whether it be responding to a first international e-commerce order, or expanding an established business into new markets.
For more information, visit https://opentoexport.com and follow us on Twitter for regular updates https://twitter.com/opentoexport
Employers' Initiative on Domestic Abuse (EIDA):
Employers are asked to join in order to support any domestic abuse victims employed in their businesses. EIDA is free to join and offers a host of services including: signposting, expertise, a toolkit for employers, and training videos. They highlight the free to download Bright Sky App, which gives victims, and those wishing to help, immediate access to information and specialist services. Visit their website to become a member.