{"id":919538,"date":"2020-02-28T12:12:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T12:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/?p=919538"},"modified":"2020-03-27T10:36:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T10:36:57","slug":"hm-government-business-support-new-web-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/?p=919538","title":{"rendered":"HM Government Business Support &#8211; new web site"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_919543\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-919543\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-919543\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/developingIdeasImage.png?resize=550%2C382\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/developingIdeasImage.png?resize=300%2C208 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/developingIdeasImage.png?resize=768%2C533 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/developingIdeasImage.png?w=778 778w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-919543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Developing our business idea&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Update: 25th Mar 2020 &#8211; Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesssupport.gov.uk\/\">www.businesssupport.gov.uk<\/a>\u00a0 (Abstract of web page)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Coronavirus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;The Government is supporting businesses and their employees through a package of measures during this period of unprecedented disruption. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesssupport.gov.uk\/\">This website helps you<\/a> find the right support, advice and information to help with the impact of coronavirus (Covid-19) on your business. The Government is doing its best to stand behind businesses and is asking businesses to do their best to stand behind their workers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Coronavirus (COVID-19): If you are looking for information on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesssupport.gov.uk\/coronavirus-business-support\/\">healthcare advice for employers and support for businesses please click here<\/a>.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Gov.uk now has a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesssupport.gov.uk\/\">Business Support cluster of web pages<\/a> for the new or developing business. A basket of resources for new or just developing business across&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesssupport.gov.uk\/finance-and-business-planning\/funding-for-new-businesses\/\">Finance &amp; Planning<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesssupport.gov.uk\/innovation-and-technology\/\">Innovation &amp; Technology<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesssupport.gov.uk\/leadership-and-talent\/\">Leadership &amp; Talent<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesssupport.gov.uk\/exporting\/\">Exporting<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although ostensibly for mainstream business development and entrepreneurship, there are still elements of the site which will have useful content for social business or community enterprise, we would argue.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Finance tab are resources on business funding alternatives, dealing with payments and marketing.<\/p>\n<p>The Leadership collection of resources has an interesting range of support links for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesssupport.gov.uk\/leadership-and-talent\/women-in-business\/\">women in business<\/a>, both networking and geographically, women in rural business, for example.<\/p>\n<p>if your business is both entrepreneurial and inventive, then the Intellectual Property cluster of links has useful links &#8211; from the always interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bl.uk\/business-and-ip-centre\/protecting-your-ideas\">British Library Business and IP Centre<\/a>, to a useful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipo.gov.uk\/ip4b\/ip4b-uk\/iphealthcheck.htm\">On-line IP Health check<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also reach the Business Support Service on the phone, 0300 456 3565 &#8211; 9am to 6pm, or use the Chat Now service direct from their web pages.<\/p>\n<pre>Ideas image: Tirachard Kumtanom, <em>Creative Commons, Pexels.com<\/em><\/pre>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-822\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SocEntEastMIdslogoButton.jpeg?resize=231%2C278\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"278\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: 25th Mar 2020 &#8211; Source: www.businesssupport.gov.uk\u00a0 (Abstract of web page) Coronavirus &#8216;The Government is supporting businesses and their employees through a package of measures during this period of unprecedented disruption. This website helps you find the right support, advice and information to help with the impact of coronavirus (Covid-19) on your business. The Government &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/?p=919538\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HM Government Business Support &#8211; new web site<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,23,140,192,288],"tags":[382,386,384,383,196,385],"class_list":["post-919538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-economics-2","category-economic-thought","category-enterprise-start-ups","category-funding-2","category-news","category-socenteastmids","tag-business-support","tag-exports","tag-finance","tag-gov-uk","tag-innovation","tag-women-in-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=919538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=919538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=919538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=919538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}