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South Gloucestershire Council Business support agencies Your guide to comprehensive business support from South Gloucestershire Council www.southglos.gov.uk Advisory Conciliation and Bristol & Bath Enterprise Arbitration Service (ACAS) Network (BEN) ACAS aims to improve organisations and BEN is the membership organisation of working life through better employment Science City Bristol Ltd, which aims to relations. The role of ACAS is to help parties help make the Bristol and Bath region a with an industrial relations dispute to great place to start and grow science and reach agreement through discussion and technology businesses. negotiation. We have more than 2,000 individual The Waterfront, Welsh Back, Bristol, BS1 4SB members consisting of entrepreneurs, ❚ 08457383736 academics, investors, industry leaders and ❚ www.acas.org.uk professional service providers. We also have over 1,000 organisation members. Membership is free. Our core activity is a Bristol and Avon Enterprise series of evening networking events and Agency (BRAVE) workshops. Expert speakers address the BRAVE is an independent, not-for-profi t opportunities and challenges faced by organisation based in Bristol, providing tech businesses, as well as key technology support to: trading businesses looking themes. BEN is a member of Business to develop and grow, business needing Navigator - the support access service solutions to problems, start-up businesses of the West of England Local Enterprise and those thinking about starting a Partnership. business or becoming self employed for Science City Bristol Ltd, SPark One, Bristol and the fi rst time. At the Coach House in central Bath Science Park, Dirac Crescent, Emersons Bristol, we have a range of small offi ces to Green, Bristol, BS16 7FR let at reasonable rents. The meeting rooms ❚ 01173707788 can hold from 2 up to 40 people and are ❚ www.sciencecitybristol.com available by the half or full day. The Coach House, 2 Upper York Street, Bristol BS2 8QN Bristol Enterprise Development ❚ 01179445330 Fund (BEDF) ❚ www.brave.org.uk BEDF provides start-up and expansion loans ❚ [email protected] to small businesses in the former Avon area. BEDF is part of South West Business Finance, a partnership of agencies across the region. Unit 3, The Coach House, 2 Upper York Street, St Paul’s, Bristol BS2 8QN ❚ 01179444700 ❚ [email protected] ❚ www.bedf.co.uk Business Council for Sustainable Companies House Development United Kingdom When setting up a limited company it (BCSD-UK) is necessary to conduct a check on the proposed company name. New company The focus of BCSD-UK is on the names must be registered with Companies practical implementation of sustainable House. development as a key to world-class business standards and new business Crown Way, Maindy, Cardiff , CF14 3UZ opportunities. ❚ 03031234500 The Arch, Unit F3, 48-52 Floodgate Street, ❚ [email protected] Birmingham, B5 5SL ❚ www.companieshouse.gov.uk ❚ 01216938338 ❚ [email protected] Department for Business ❚ www.bcsd-uk.co.uk Innovation and Skills (BIS) The Department for Business, Innovation Business West & Skills (BIS) is building a dynamic and Business West is a powerful voice for competitive UK economy by creating the business. All companies can benefi t conditions for business success; promoting from the range of information, advice, innovation, enterprise and science; and networking events and international trade giving everyone the skills and opportunities support that is available from Business West. to succeed. To achieve this we will foster Delivering essential Chamber of Commerce world-class universities and promote an services in Bristol, Bath and Gloucestershire open global economy. to almost 2,000 members enables Business ❚ 02072155000 West to speak with authority on the issues ❚ [email protected] that matter to business. As an eff ective link ❚ www.bis.gov.uk between the private and public sectors, it ensures the interests of commerce are taken Disclosure and Barring Service into account when key decisions are made at local, regional and national levels. The Disclosure and Barring Service, previously called the Criminal Records ❚ 01275373373 Bureau, aims to help organisations in ❚ www.businesswest.co.uk the public, private and voluntary sectors ❚ [email protected] by identifying candidates who may me unsuitable to work with children or other Centre for Sustainable Energy vulnerable members of society The Centre for Sustainable Energy off ers ❚ 08709090811 advice on sustainable energy solutions. ❚ www.homeoffi ce.gov.uk/dbs 3 St Peter’s Court, Bedminster Parade, Bristol, BS3 4AQ ❚ 01179341400 ❚ [email protected] ❚ www.cse.org.uk Enterprise Europe Network Federation of Small Businesses South West (FSB) Enterprise Europe Network South West The FSB is non-profi t making and non-party provides free business support and advice political. It is the UK’s largest campaigning on trading in Europe; access to hundreds pressure group promoting and protecting of business opportunities across all sectors the interests of the self-employed and through the Partner Alert Service; a direct owners of small fi rms. In addition to route to feedback your business issues to lobbying the Government on legislation the European Commission and support in and regulation aff ecting small businesses, accessing European funding. the FSB provides a range of benefi ts to c/o Business West, Leigh Court Business Centre, members including access to a 24hr, Abbots Leigh, Bristol, BS8 3RA 365-days-of-the-year legal advice line, free ❚ 01275370997 banking, fi nancial services and a lot more. ❚ [email protected] There are also networking opportunities. ❚ www.enterpriseeuropesw.org.uk FSB is organised on regional lines and the South Gloucestershire branch forms part of the Gloucestershire and West of England Environmental Sustainability region. Knowledge Transfer Partnership Gloucestershire and the West of England Region The Environmental Sustainability O ffi c e Knowledge Transfer Network (ESKTN) is ❚ 01285740550 accelerating the UK’s transition to a low ❚ region.offi [email protected] carbon, resource and energy effi cient ❚ www.fsb.org.uk economy by connecting businesses, ❚ Twitter: @FSBGlosandWoE universities, other research organisations and government agencies, and catalysing innovation across a wide range of HM Revenue & Customs environmental technologies. For free ESKTN HM Revenue business advisors off er a range membership details, please visit www. of free workshops to help local businesses innovateuk.org/sustainabilityktn as well as payroll support to new and small c/o University of Oxford, Earth Sciences, businesses. For queries relating to personal Kidlington, Oxford, OX5 1PF tax, please dial 0845 9000 4444. Bristol and North Somerset Area, Business ❚ 01865610500 Support Team, Norfolk House, Temple Street, ❚ [email protected] Bristol BS1 6HR ❚ www.innovateuk.org/sustainabilityktn ❚ 01179072581 ❚ www.hmrc.gov.uk Improving Your Resource Business Navigator Effi ciency (IYRE) Businesses need support to grow, and the The improving your resource effi ciency West of England area is full of resources. (IYRE) service is a programme aimed Whether you’re a new business or a new at small and medium sized enterprises social enterprise, growing or looking to aspiring to make environmental effi ciency become more sustainable, there’s support improvements and boost their profi ts. The available to help you make it happen – service off ers a variety of specialist support and Business Navigator will help you to to eligible businesses including advice, site fi nd it. Business Navigator was originally visits, identifi cation of cost savings, events, created by the West of England Local and help with environmental management Enterprise Partnership (LEP) as a hub to systems. For more information and to signpost business support for Bristol, Bath contact a specialist adviser, please call the and beyond. It is still supported by the LEP Business Link gateway. at arm’s length, but is now owned and ❚ 01275376233 operated by a private company. ❚ www.businesswest.co.uk/iyre ❚ www.businessnavigator.org.uk Institute of Directors (IoD) Jobcentre Plus Institute of Directors (IoD) membership Jobcentres can off er employers a complete off ers support for entrepreneurs and recruitment process from the issue of Directors to maximise personal potential application forms through to candidate sift and enhance business performance. and shortlist. Jobcentres can also help and Successful companies need solid, strategic advise on employment legislation, training, frameworks and the IoD provides this rates of pay, equal opportunities, specialist information through business networking, types of employment and employing training and advice. people with disabilities. Jobcentres have Orchard Street Business Centre, 14 Orchard the facility to circulate vacancies nationally Street, Bristol BS1 5EH and internationally if employers are having diffi culty fi lling them locally. Jobcentres can ❚ 01179055050 also off er support to employers who are ❚ [email protected] facing redundancies; providing information ❚ www.iod.com/southwest on local job vacancies, Benefi t one-to-one, Housing Benefi t, Tax Credits, CVs, Career Intellectual Property Offi ce advice and one-to-one support for staff . The Intellectual Property Offi ce is ❚ www.businesslink.gov.uk/jobcentreplus responsible for the registration of patents, trade marks, designs and copyright. ❚ 03003002000 ❚ [email protected] ❚ www.ipo.gov.uk Low Carbon South