Links

Brighton and Hove Chamber of Commerce
A Brighton and Hove network, for helping local businesses reach their full potential. A majority of their events are open to the public, but you can receive discounts and many other benefits if you join as an annual member.

Companies House
Companies House is the organisation that records details of all registered limited companies in England and Wales. If you want to set up a limited company, it’s the best place to quickly see if the named you’d like to use for your business is already in use. Should you want to register a new business, it costs just £18.00. Access the online registration form and background information here.

Eastbourne of Commerce
Eastbourne and District Chamber of Commerce Ltd (EDCC) is a business-led membership organisation, owned by East Sussex businesses. They operate on a similar membership deal to the Brighton and Hove Chamber of Commerce.

Edeal
EDEAL is a not for profit agency offering a range of practical and cost effective business solutions to small and medium sized enterprises across the South East.

Flying Start
FlyingStart is dedicated to getting student and graduate businesses started, through their own social network and programme of free webinars focussed on a range of business start-up issues.

Global Entrepreneurship Week (UK)
This is the UK site for the entrepreneurship celebrations that takes place in November each year across the globe. The 2011 UK campaign reached out to 213,000 participants, through 2,300 events and 914 partner organisations.

GNU Cash
This site offers free open source software for personal and small-business financial-accounting that operates on the Double-Entry Accounting principal, which can help you monitor and analyse income and expenditure. It is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, BSD and Solaris.

Hastings Area Chamber of Commerce
Hastings  of Commerce for business in Hastings, St Leonards, Bexhill and East Sussex. Operate on a similar membership deal to the Brighton and Hove Chamber of Commerce.

Ideas Tap
IdeasTap is a creative network and funding body for emerging arts talent, which highlights key opportunities in across the creative industries. The organisation also has funding opportunities for a range of projects, many of which are applied for by writing 100 word project summaries.

Let’s Do Business Group
This organisation offers one-off advice, bespoke training, access to finance and run the largest business to business exhibitions across Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings.

Prowess
The key website for UK women in business, start-ups and social enterprise, with valuable business information, tips and support.

Shell-LiveWIRE
This site is the UK's biggest online community for young entrepreneurs (aged 16-30) who are starting or running their own business. The site offers free business advice, a social network and an awards scheme for new business ideas that makes four prizes of £1000 to winners on a monthly basis.

Simply-Docs
Simply Docs is a specialist company providing a whole range of template business contracts including legal document templates, terms and conditions and employment contracts. Access to their templates is charged at £35.00 + VAT per year, and could help you save money when using solicitors to help create bespoke legal documentation for you, as you can provide them with a base to work from.

Smarta
Smarta.com is a business support and advice network for start-ups, small business owners and entrepreneurs, which contains free practical guides, tools and video interviews.

StartUp Britain
StartUp Britain is a campaign and web platform supported by HM Government aimed at supporting new and young businesses. They have a large variety of resources on the site and the only UK wide enterprise events online calendar.

UnLtd
UnLtd is a charity that supports social entrepreneurs with mentors and two levels of grants, for individuals or groups of individuals who want to run a project that will benefit a local community somehow.

YHP Magazine
Your Hidden Potential (YHP) is a new UK platform dedicated to promoting and showcasing young entrepreneurs and the hottest start-ups from around the world. YHP wants to encourage, educate and motivate young entrepreneurs to set targets, be more dynamic and reach higher goals.