Business Support and Advice
You can add your business event to our business events calendar.
Starting a business?
- You can get advice, guidance and training with Southern Entrepreneurs
- Understand more about the Government's New Enterprise Allowance (download below)
- Business Link's business start up web pages
- Business Link's company name checker
- Find out about social enterprise as a business model - download below
- Find local businesses for sale with businesses4sale or Business Transfer Agents
Need some help and support?
- Make sure you get the business rates relief you are entitled to
- Attend a Winchester enetwork event at Winchester Business School - next event on 8 March 2011
- Creative industries can seek advice from CIBAS by emailing cibas@port.ac.uk
- Search the useful Business Link website, or speak to an advisor on 0845 600 9 006
- Business Link's business healthcheck
- Attend one of the networking events listed below
- Make sure your business benefits from London 2012 developments
- Involved in the tourism in Winchester? Check out the Visit Winchester website
- Business Link's hospitality and tourism business guide
- Find out more about social networking for your business
- Business to business sales opportunities available at the South Hampshire Meet the Buyers event
Going green?
- Attend the Action Sustainability Annual Conference on 9 February 2012
- Top ten tips for reducing waste, saving energy, and improving your bottom line
- Download the PLATO: Sustain document for sustainable business best practice
- Get involved with Winchester Action on Climate Change and sign up to the carbon challenge pledge
- Encourage car sharing with WinACC
- Want some help improving your business whilst considering corporate social responsibility?
Need some help in the recession?
- Winchester's hardship rates relief scheme
- If redundancies are on the cards, download the support document below or contact the Continuing Employment Support Service
Workforce welfare
- Understand changes to retirement agesTake a look at Change4Life's employer toolkit
- Take part in the 2012 legacy with Gold Challenge
Latest Updates:
Hampshire Hospitality Awards
The Hampshire Hospitality Award is a quality marque for restaurants, tea rooms, pubs, cafés and other eateries in the county. The award celebrates the best of Hampshire's eating experiences.
01/02/2012
Food Hygiene Ratings
Winchester City Council has now launched the new national food hygiene rating scheme.
30/11/2011
Forthcoming Events
Forthcoming business events
24/02/2011
In this section:
One Big Table – Multicultural Lunch and Festival of Volunteering - June 5 2011
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is about understanding your business' impact on the wider world and considering how you can use this impact in a positive way. CSR can also be good for your bottom line.
13/04/2011
Sustainable Business
There are lots of things you can do in your business to reduce your impact on the environment, and to find the business opportunities environmental change presents.
07/03/2008
Enterprise First
The two leading enterprise agencies in the south east have joined forces: ENTERPRISE FIRST is the name to remember.
12/12/2007
What happens when you aren't around?
Customers today have an expectation that your business will be open when they call, anytime!
29/06/2007
Explosives
This page re-directs you to information about legislation related to explosives
19/09/2006
Business Continuity Management
The City Council as a Category 1 responder also has a duty under the Act to produce Business Continuity Management plans for its own organisation.
03/09/2006
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