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Here's how we run a social enterprise - Loaf Catering (video)
How Loaf Catering operates as a social enterprise, generates income and engages with the local community
Business banking
How to choose and manage a business bank account. Debit and credit cards for your business. Using payment cards to buy and sell goods or services. Accepting online payments. Foreign currency and exchange risks. ...
Financial planning and accounts
Business budgeting. Financial and management accounts: the basics. Set up a simple profit and loss account for your business. Balance sheets: the basics. Set up a basic record-keeping system. Investment appraisal techniques. ...
Research and development
Understand the importance of research and development for the success of new products, services and ideas
Sales and marketing for start-ups
Guides on how to maximise sales and how to deploy marketing to attract customers to your startup business
Protect your business ideas
Guides on how to protect the unique and innovative aspects of your startup idea and intellectual property in your new business
Hire staff
Guides to help you when employing staff in your startup business and the legal responsibilities you have as an employer
Selling
Preparing to sell. The sales process. Choose and manage a commercial agent. Forecast and plan your sales. Spotting market opportunities. Increase your market share. Identify potential sales channels. Overview on selling to government. ...
Pricing
Competing fairly. Price indications. Price lists, estimates, quotations and tenders. Price your product or service.
Checklist: set up as a sole trader
A checklist of things you must do, and organisations you must make contact with, to set yourself up as a sole trader
Checklist: set up a business partnership
A handy checklist of steps you must take when you are initially setting up your business partnership
Checklist: set up a limited company
A useful list of things you need to do to when setting up a limited company and organisations you need to contact
Employing and supporting LGBT workers
How employers can take action to ensure an inclusive workplace environment and support lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and trans staff
LGBT staff: employer legal duties
Employers’ legal responsibilities to ensure you do not discriminate against lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and trans staff
What is sexual orientation discrimination in the workplace?
Identify different types of sexual orientation discrimination in the workplace and examples of these
Supporting trans staff
Trans staff face some unique challenges in the workplace and employers can take action to ensure they are respected and supported effectively
Compliance and regulatory risk
How to identify and manage compliance and regulatory risks in your business
Operational risk
Understand the sources of operational risk and how to minimise the impact of operational problems in your business