Business Link and local Enterprise Agencies can help you access information, advice and training.
Business Link will help you:
Evaluate your business idea
Research the market
Write a business plan
Raise and manage finances
Find premises
Understand business regulations
Employ staff
Phone: 0845 608 3388
Email: info@businesslinknw.co.uk
Phone: 0161 485 4949
Phone: 0845 388 7701
Starting a business - HMRC website
You can call the Inland Revenue help line for newly self employed people on 0845 9154 505 (8.00am - 8.00pm).
The Prince’s Trust Enterprise Programme supports unemployed young people aged 18 - 30 to work out if their business ideas are viable and whether self-employment is right for them.
Phone: 0161 874 7380
KYP’s Business Support programme provides Information, Advice and Guidance to members of the BME communities in Oldham and Rochdale who wish to start their own businesses.
Your contact is Fakhar Mirza.
Phone: 01706 616606
Email: mirzaf@kyp.org.uk
Oldham Library can help you access business databases, and market research information.
Reference services - includes business information
Events - Business, finance and employment
Your contact is Victoria Varley.
Phone: 0161 770 8036