Website Links
Agricultural/Land Management
National Rural Knowledge Exchange
The National Rural Knowledge Exchange (NationalRural) is one of 22 Centres for Knowledge Exchange activity (CKEs) funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. CKEs are centres of excellence for work between Universities and Colleges and Business and the Community.
We aim to promote the development of the rural economy by using academic skills and knowledge to work with rural businesses and communities.
http://www.nationalrural.org/
Environmental
Marches Energy Agency
MEA is an independent not for profit organisation with charitable status. We are governed by a board of trustees and currently have 9 members of staff. We are united by a common interest in promoting the sustainable use of energy and the wider principles of sustainable development.
http://www.mea.org.uk/
General
BCentral
bCentral is Microsoft UK's initiative to help those millions of small business owner-managers. Our products are in use in small businesses across the country, giving us an unrivalled insight into how you work, and what you want to achieve.
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/smallbusiness/default.mspx
Beermat.biz
Improve your sales and marketing techniques through workshops, training events and conferences. Beermat.biz offers an extremely valuable newsletter packed with fresh business advice, and utilises the skills of well-known business professionals. Visit us for information on upcoming events.
http://www.beermat.biz
Business Link
Business Link provides the information, advice and support you need to start, maintain and grow a business. It provides information and advice to help customers make the most of their opportunities. Rather than providing all the advice and help itself, it fast-tracks customers to the expert help they need.
http://www.businesslink.gov.uk
Business Matters
Business Matters is the UK's largest monthly distributed business magazine, aimed at small and medium sized enterprises (SEM's). It forms a one-stop shop for news coverage, analysis, interviews with key business people and leading entrepreneurs. It also provides valuable marketing, legal and financial advice.
http://www.bmmagazine.co.uk
Enterprise Nation
Enterprise Nation, the homeworking web site, provides information and inspiration for homeworkers everywhere, with features, top stories and how to's
http://www.enterprisenation.com/
Exceptional Thinking
Exceptional Thinking specialises in new and pre-existing small businesses. They offer practical hands-on advice to help you set up, expand and succeed with your small business. This site aims to help you to do this on your own, through marketing training and business planning, or alternatively offers a service to suit your budget. Whether you want to go it alone or make the most of Exceptional Thinking's business training, visit this site and get your business off to the best start.
www.exceptionalthinking.co.uk
Fresh Business Thinking
This site is an online business resource for entrepreneurs, including the lastest business news, forums, advice and newsletters.
http://www.freshbusinessthinking.com
Grad Central
Whether you’re a graduate looking to progress your career in the West Midlands or an employer in the region on the look-out to fill a graduate level role, Grad Central is here to help you. We provide a full recruitment service from advertising of vacancies through to interviewing of candidates and negotiation of offers. Our funding enables us to provide your first placement completely free of any recruitment fee with any subsequent graduates placed for just £500 each.
www.grad-central.co.uk
Home HQ - Shropshire
The Shropshire Star and Shropshire Enterprise Partnership, together with the Rural Regeneration Zone, have joined forces to offer at-home entrepreneurs a brand new scheme dedicated to promoting Shropshire home-based businesses.
http://www.homehq-shropshire.co.uk/
INC
The Independent Network Club (Shropshire) has grown from the former North Shropshire network club that met fortnightly in Whitchurch. It is different to all the other network clubs in the county because it is an independent club which makes it accessible to all businesses - large and small.
http://www.inc-shropshire.co.uk/
Ludlow Chamber
Ludlow Online is a new business directory published by Ludlow Chamber of Trade with financial support from the Ludlow Market Towns Initiative, which draws its funding from Advantage West Midlands, our regional development agency.
www.ludlowonline.co.uk/
Shropshire Hills buy local
Local Food and Drink and our Environment
By buying local products you support sustainable small scale farming and businesses which contribute to conserving and enhancing the environment. Use this website to search for local food and drink as well as places where you can eat and stay and enjoy local produce.
http://www.shropshirehills-buylocal.co.uk/index.cfm
Startups.co.uk
Startups focuses on new business development and keeping existing businesses afloat. From young entrepreneurs to those looking for a lifestyle change, this website can help you to set up your business, gives tax advice and provides an excellent emarketing newsletter which is full of tips and advice for new business owners. To find out more or to attend a conference, click on the following link.
http://www.startups.co.uk
Telegraph Business Club
Telegraph Business Club has one simple aim: To help dynamic entrepreneurs and ambitious business professionals to become more successful.
www.telegraphbusinessclub.co.uk
Online Communities
Ecademy
Ecademy is a Social Network for Business People founded in 1998 now with over 100,000 members worldwide. Our cause is to build the world's premier Trusted Network, connecting business people to share knowledge, contacts, support and transactions.
http://www.ecademy.com/
Public Sector
Department of Trade and Industry
Working to create the conditions for business success and help the UK respond to the challenge of globalisation.
http://www.dti.gov.uk/
Selling Online
Startups
StartupCommunity
Are you thinking of starting a business, or in the early years of running your own business, then join the Community and reap the many benefits of free life-long membership along with the other 8,896 members!
http://www.startupcommunity.co.uk/
Startups
Startups.co.uk is your number-one online resource for starting a business. Whether you are a budding entrepreneur ready to start a business for the first time or you are an established entrepreneur looking to do it a second time, we have all the news and information you need to get your business starting on the right foot.
http://www.startups.co.uk/
Women in Business
Everywoman
everywoman is the UK’s leading provider of training, resources and support services for women in business.
We work to increase the number of women in the UK economy and raise their status. We use our experience and expertise to help women achieve their aspirations and realise their business ambitions.
Our clients range from entrepreneurs and women wanting to start up their own companies to blue-chip corporations and public sector organisations who want to develop the next generation of female leaders.
http://www.everywoman.co.uk/
WBDA
We’re here to help women take control of their lives by providing the specific support and advice they need to start and sustain their own business. Our web site tells you all about us and the free services we offer. If you think we could help you, don’t hesitate to call us.
Women’s Business Development Agency
02476 236 111
http://www.wbda.co.uk
WiRE
WiRE is a organisation for rural women, offering a dynamic member package of practical and specific business services and support for women in rural enterprise including; WiRE Local Network Groups (50 across the UK) offering rural businesswomen the chance to network and do business with like-minded women, a quarterly glossy magazine, monthly e-newsletter and countless marketing opportunities.
http://www.wireuk.org