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Business Advice Sheffield

Where to find business support organisations who help start-ups.

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Businesses in Sheffield are more likely to succeed if they seek and act upon the advice of a professional business adviser. This page should point you in the right direction.

"You don't know, what you don't know" is a great saying and so applicable to starting a business. There are so many considerations in the early stages that taking advice from an experienced business adviser will dramatically increase your chances of success.

See list of local business support organisations below.

Recommended Local Partner

Federation of Small Businesses

Federation of Small Businesses

Federation of Small Businesses Membership Adviser for South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire.

Providing comprehensive support to businesses and start-ups.

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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 guide

Start Your Own Business in Sheffield

Download the 2024 edition of our Free guide

An interactive step-by-step guide which also includes all of the most important subjects covered with links to useful 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 and points to where you can find help and support.

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Sheffield Business Advisors

Federation of Small Businesses
Federation of Small Businesses Membership Adviser for South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire. Providing comprehensive support to businesses and start-ups.
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Sheffield City Council Business
Sheffield City Council's website contains a page dedicated to local business. If you a run a business in the area are thinking about starting a new business do have a look as there is masses of useful information. 1 Union Street, Howden House, Sheffield S1 2SH
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Starting a business in Sheffield
Startups is a long-established web portal dedicated to helping new business owners. It contains a section dedicated to Sheffield along with lots of other useful information.
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UK Research & Innovation
We invest in research and innovation to enrich lives, drive economic growth, and create jobs and high-quality public services across the UK. We are transforming tomorrow together.
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Sheffield City Region Growth Hub
Are you thinking of setting up a business? Or already taking the first steps with your own company? Wherever you are on the journey to being a successful entrepreneur, Sheffield City Region Growth Hub can help you. To make that happen the Growth Hub is working with a range of organisations and individuals to encourage entrepreneurship and provide important support for Start-Up businesses whilst enabling early stage businesses to be sustainable longer term and to grow.
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Startup Support in...Sheffield
Sheffield based early-stage startups and entrepreneurs take note - here's the lowdown on key startup support and help available where you are... Away from the established startup hubs like London, the support for setting up a business isn’t always so clear. It’s not a lack of support, just a quieter ecosystem that takes a little more work to unearth. We want to help with this by highlighting what some cities, which might not spring immediately to mind at the mention of ‘startups’, have to offer.
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Sheffield City Region
The Sheffield City Region is ambitious. We are seeking to transform our economy, to connect our businesses and people to economic opportunity, to build a stronger, greener and fairer economy, and to strengthen our reputation as a place where people want to live, work and invest. Sheffield City Region, 11 Broad Street West, Sheffield S1 2BQ
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Department for Business & Trade
The Department for Business & Trade helps businesses export and grow into global markets. We also help overseas companies locate and grow in the UK. Our services are provided in over 100 markets throughout the world. We are passionate about what we do. Thats why we constantly review our services in light of customer feedback and the impact they offer, which means theyll vary from time to time.
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Prowess- Women in Business
Prowess is the online hub for women-friendly business support, inspiration and information. Our vision is an environment where women in business can flourish. Be inspired Prowess is full of stories and shared experiences from women who’ve made their own way in business. Everyone has a story to tell. And women who are thinking of starting a business – and those looking to grow – say there aren’t enough stories of real women in business out there. In our recent survey 43% said they wanted to read more experiences and case studies from ‘real’ women in business! Read them here, or submit your own here.
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Starting and Growing Your Business in Sheffield
Business Sheffield offer a comprehensive service designed to help businesses thrive and grow, whether they be start-up or established. From a series of start-up sessions aimed at those thinking of going into business, through to a suite of workshops covering topics as diverse as digital marketing (inc websites, social media etc) selling on Amazon, terms and conditions, employing people for the first time, selling face to face, telephone selling and more, our sole aim is to help you develop a successful business. We also offer on going one-to-one support from highly experienced and knowledgeable advisors, as well as the possibility of an appointment with a commercial lawyer or accountant if you have a particular problem or query. There is no charge for any of the services we offer If you are looking to start a business, become self-employed or already have a business operating in the city that you want to grow, Business Sheffield are here to help you. Email or call us at BusinessSheffield@sheffield.gov.uk 01142 245000.
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Business Sheffield
Business Sheffield are part of Sheffield City Council in the 'City Futures' department, and are therefore funded by public sector budgets. Our aim is to achieve growth for the city - in the widest sense of the word.Whilst economic growth is the most tangible measure of this, place branding is also about the intangibles, and so we work with community organisations, cultural providers, educational institutions and many other private and public stakeholders on collaborative projects that seek to promote the city as an inclusive, progressive and unique place for people to live and work in, as well as visit.Tel: 0114 224 5000E-mail: businesssheffield@sheffield.gov.uk
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Business Sheffield
Business Sheffield wants to help business thrive in Sheffield. Whether you are looking to establish your own company, an established company who is looking to expand, or a company who is looking at investing in Sheffield, we are here to help. To find out more about the range of support that is available to businesses, phone 0114 224 5000 to speak to a member of our Business Gateway team.
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Babel Consulting - Leadership Coaching and Mentoring
An Experiential Leadership Coaching Company, established 2004. Their Purpose: to provide accelerated leadership coaching and mentoring to businesses, and organisations, to substantially improve performance.
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Inspire 2 Aspire
Inspire2Aspire provide a wide range of strategies to help businesses grow and succeed.
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Sheffield Enterprise Agency
Our professional range of services includes ongoing one-to-one counselling sessions with accredited business advisors, a business skills training course, tailored practical workshops and seminars and two years continued aftercare for your new business. All this is free of charge to anyone living in Sheffield or setting up a business in the Sheffield area.
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Local help for startups

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