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Sponsors
Hi Guys, I was looking on here as i thought it might be useful for me as i am a president of a registered kids charity. I was just wondering if anyone would know where i could get sponsors from for my sons football team? They are a new team and are in desprate need of some equpment and winter training coats ect, does…
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Woodworking Machines, where to buy?
hi all, i am thinking of setting up a small joinery business up but finding the machines at a reasonable price is tricky. the machine prices seem to vary so much from place to place, i dont realy want to purchase them from ebay but is there companys that sell off machines from companys that have gome bust? also has anyone…
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starting Bed & breakfast business
Hi to all you lovely money savers out there. :j First of all hubby not happy in his job, small son starting big school in september, me bored and want to do something either from home or starting a business, have paid my fees to daltons business to look for small b&b. guest house etc, lots that we can/could not afford,…
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Federation of Small Businesses
Anyone here a member? I have gave the local rep a cheque for £135.00 but post dated it so I can always cancel if I get advised that its not all that.
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Ways of Finding Some Cheap Office Space
I need to find and sign up a lease fairly quickly on some decent cheap office space in Central, SE or East London area. Needs to accomodate 4 people. Just found out business we are buying will be losing its premises in a few months time as has been earmarked for demolition. Anyone know any good websites or ways of finding…
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Discount code for Goodprint
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Your Discount Code is: [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]GP40AUG[/FONT] To claim your 40% discount simply add your chosen products to the shopping basket, then before clicking checkout enter the discount code. Your discount will appear on the following page. [FONT=Arial,…
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Alternative to Royal Mail
I am heartily sick of my letters going missing in the post. I send out an average of 25 per day, first class - and at times I send out over 500 in one go. A significant proportion don't reach their destination - and those are the ones I know about. I have had the letters checked by the post office in terms of their weight…
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SB - Arts and crafts stall locations
I've only recently started up a small business selling arts and crafts. I did have the intention of running it from premises but have been outbid on lots of premises recently in the Cambridgeshire area :mad: I have done 3 stalls at schools, a care home garden fete and also a village gala. I was wondering if anyne knew of…
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Mobile Home Business - Where to start?
Not sure where to start really, bit daunted by it all. I have a mobile home and have just started to let it out over the summer hols to cover the ground rent. We also use it for our holidays. However, I would like to use it to make an income. I work part time and earn over the £5000 ish, so I do pay tax, but not a huge…
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Suggested Online Payment Provider
Hi , I was wondering for a website thats just starting up, what would be the most cost efficient payment provider...protx? google checkout, paypal? Preferabaly I don't want to set up a seperate bank account just yet... Any suggestions are welcome!
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Finding Office Premises & Reducing Purchase Price
We are in the process of buying a very small business that provides services to the legal profession. It has been running for 10 years. The client base is changing due to the new HIPS legislation. I know we are paying for a changing client base but felt confident that we would be able to bring in new business.A price has…
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Director's Breifings
www.spacia.co.uk/director Loads on there, some of them are the same as what yellow pages send out if you tick a box when you advertise with them. Pretty in-depth but might be worth a read
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0800 Number Provider With Call Counting Facility
Dear all, Just a quick query for you. Do you know of any companies that offer 0800 numbers in sets so that I can assign particular numbers to particular means of advertising? For instance, if I wanted to run ads in a local paper could I have an 0800 number specifically for this purpose and then monitor the number of calls…
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0800 number rediversion costs
Hi, I was wondering whether anyone could reccommend a place where I can buy an 0800 number which diverts to my mobile?
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New Stationery
Hi I am in the process of looking for new stationery to be printed and designed for a small tiling company. I have covered our local area for printers and for a simple colour design on high quality paper we have had prices of £140 and £150 this includes the design and print of 250 letterheads, 250 invoice, 250 business…
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Scams and Warnings for your business
Having been in business for just 2 years I have only come across one scam so far - which I have summarised below. I am sure that there are many people out there who have been scammed and can share their experiences to help prevent others being scammed in the same or similar ways. I have set up this thread so that anyone…
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Help with paying contractors..
I hope someone can help? We run a small joinery/building business. We are extremely busy at the moment and are contracting work out to up to 4 joiners, 2 plumbers, 2 plasterers and 2 brickies. We cannot take them on as 'employed' (they are all self-employed and would not want to be 'employed' by us, plus we cannot afford…
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Very cheap office furniture for charities and start ups
Thanks to Savvy_Sue who suggested that I post this here... If you run a small charity, school, community or voluntary group, or a start up business you may be able to get very low price office furniture from the social enterprise Green Works (see www.green-works.co.uk). Green Works receives donations of good quality office…
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Emplyer of 1 pers - hopefully in the right place
HELP HELP HELP PLease I am about to employ a Nanny to look after my kiddies. She will be earning £50 a day NET and only working 2 days a week (3 days on 2 occassions for the next 4/5 mnths) so I think only just over the threshhold However I cannot for the life of me find a website or anywhere letting me know the employers…
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where to buy goods wholesale to resell?
hi i was wondering if any of you could help. i want to try and work from home so that i can try and fit it in with looking after 2 small kids. have done reasonably well selling our unwanted stuff on ebay, so im thinking about buying wholesale and then reselling on ebay? not sure where to get the stuff in the first place…