Business Support and Advice
Welcome to the Business Support and Advice Section of the Toolkit.
Use the A-Z of Business Support Topics to find information on the issue you're particularly interested in, or browse the menu.
Use the Directory of Business Support to find face-to-face help from organisations in North East England.
Coming soon in this section:
- Start-ups - comprehensive advice for new businesses
- Develop your business - step by step advice on successfully building your products and services or planning a new project
- Profit Through Access - improve your sales and service through becoming more accessible
- Profit Through Productivity - take a top-to-toe look at your business to make it more productive and more profitable
If you have any ideas, suggestions or comments for material to include in this section please contact us. We want the Toolkit to be a genuinely useful resource for North East tourism businesses - so we really welcome your feedback.
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Quick Links
- Sample risk assessment form
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Sample risk assessment chart to use with business contingency planning.
- Managing Work Related Violence in Licenced and Retail Premises
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This HSE Guidance Leaflet looks at practical ways to reduce work related violence in licenced and retail premises, based on measures routinely used by real businesses.
Business Support
- BBC Looking For New B&B Startups(11/06/2008)
- Applications Invited for New Gerry Robinson Series(10/31/2008)
- Government Provides Support to Stop Businesses Failing(10/29/2008)
- Dealing with the Credit Crunch(10/28/2008)
- Contingency Planning and Disaster Recovery(10/28/2008)
- Barbara Follett Replaces Margaret Hodge as Minister for Tourism(10/07/2008)
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Features and Articles
Tourism in the North East
What's our tourism industry really like here in North East England
Using Research
Who comes here? Why? Where are they from? What do they want? How long do they stay? What tourism businesses are already here? How busy are they?
Raising Quality
Raising quality is on every tourism strategy in the UK. Why? Competition, competition, competition.