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How to Start a Business in Eltham

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How to Start a Business in Eltham

Starting a business in Eltham

If you are thinking about starting a business in Eltham or would like to grow your existing business, we would love to help you.

Start Your Own Business in Eltham contains resources and the information that will help give your venture the best chance of success. It also highlights organisations who offer friendly advice and the services that you are likely to need as a new startup or local business owner.

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Starting a business in Eltham

Local help for startups

There is plenty of help for startups in Eltham but where can it be found?

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Local partners

We are happy to promote anyone who is prepared to offer friendly, honest, relevant support to local start-ups and existing businesses.

Our partners have been good enough to help us and are keen to help you too.

Free Startup Guide

Start Your Own Business in Greenwich

Download the 2026 edition of our Free Start Your Own Business guide

An interactive step-by-step guide which also includes all of the most important subjects covered in an easy-to-read way with links to useful online articles and relevant contacts.

The idea of starting your own business can be incredibly exciting and who can blame you for being tempted?

However, the sad truth is that far too many new enterprises fail in the early stages. Our aim is to make sure that you don't become one of them.

This guide explains the key start-up subjects in simple English.

There is also plenty of help available in the area and much of it is free - please do make the most of it.

Read more about what our Free guide contains and how you can download it.
Starting a business in Eltham

Key Contacts in Eltham

'You don't know what you don't know' is a phrase that is so applicable to starting a new business.

Eltham is a great place for start-ups but your chances of success are dramatically improved if you make the most of the support that is available locally. Click on logos to visit their websites.

Advice

Federation of Small Businesses (FSB)
Hi, I'm your local membership advisor for the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). Most businesses do not grasp the depth of offering from the FSB, however it is indeed a very powerful ally for your business. As a member you get the following services and there are no additional charges. Some of these offering are immensely powerful during this difficult period especially the HR Protection, Legal documentation and Tax & VAT Helpline. FSB Member Services: Employment Protection and documentation, Legal Protection, guidance, advice and tribunal cover The Legal Hub with approx. 1200 documents to download: Tax Investigation, Protection, Insurance Services, where you should save on your outlays, Debt Recovery, and Business Banking. There are many additional services to support and save your business money and membership is 100% tax deductible, as its a business expense.
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Networking

BNI Legacy Greenwich
Yes were bringing BNI to Greenwich! The first BNI meeting in Greenwich for years.......If youre looking to grow your business and want to be part of something very special that will generate you high quality business. Our aim is to build a 50+ chapter of BNI in sharing over £5-6 Million pounds worth of business in the months and years to come. Were looking for like minded, forward thinking, professionals who understand that generating high quality referred business comes from strong relationships with those around them and we would love to meet you. BNI only allows one person from each profession to be part of the group and once the slot has been taken it could be a number of years before the opportunity to visit comes up again and with a number of slots already filled do check first that we have the availability to have you visit us at the meeting before booking to visit. Or alternatively email me at spencer@bniselondon.co.uk for more information on how to lock out your competition.
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Advice

London & Partners (Grow London Local)
Grow London Local is a brand new service supporting London based small businesses and entrepreneurs. Supported by the Mayor of London, this is the 'single front door' service to access a wide range of business support services across the capital for free!From access to finance, to sale sand marketing support our team of business support managers will help you along your journey towards business growth and expansion.
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Law

Shoredons & Co Legal
We advise on just about every legal aspect of running a business - from startup to exit.
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Marketing

News Shopper
The News Shopper newspaper was founded over 50 years ago and is still the most read news brand in the area. Covering quality local news in Bromley, Bexley, Greenwich, Lewisham, Dartford and surround areas with a market leading newspaper plus a vast and ever growing online and social media audience. We offer a wide range of targeted marketing solutions to suit all budgets and expert advice. Contact Jennie McPherson to arrange a meeting to discuss your business marketing needs - jennie.mcpherson@london.newsquest.co.uk
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Print

YouLovePrint
With extensive in-house production facilities and years of industry experience, the team are able to fulfil an array of commercial print requirements including but not restricted to books and magazines, leaflets and flyers, business cards and postcards and wall and desk calendars. All products come with a choice of sizes, paper types, orientations, binds and finishings.
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Advice

South East Enterprise
Enterprise agency offering a range of business support services, training and networking opportunities. Fully funded pre start service for all unemployed residents of Greenwich and Lewisham. Competitively priced business mentoring. Subsidised workshops are available to all comers. Call or visit the website for further details and eligibility criteria.
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Advice

Royal Borough of Greenwich Business Advice Services
In Royal Greenwich, professional business advice is available on any aspect of your business, including: - business start-up - managing growth - capacity building - tendering bidding for contracts - social enterprise - recruitment - marketing - financial management - accountancy. For more information contact Greenwich Business Support Service and we will refer you to the most suitable organisation.
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Start-up articles

100's of free startup articles

We have created a collection of 100s of startup articles to help anyone with whatever stage they are on with their business journey. Hundreds of thousands of people have gone before you and we can learn from what they got right and avoid the things that have been proved not to work so well.

You can see the full list of 'articles' at: How to start a business