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How to Start a Business in Maida Vale

Free start-up resources and useful local contacts.

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How to Start a Business in Maida Vale

Starting a business in Maida Vale

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

Start Your Own Business in Maida Vale 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 Maida Vale

Local help for startups

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

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Local partners

We are happy to promote anyone who is prepared to offer friendly support to local start-ups.

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

Free Startup Guide

Start Your Own Business in Westminster

Download the 2025 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 Maida Vale

Key Contacts in Maida Vale

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

Maida Vale 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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Advice

Portobello Business Centre
Portobello Business Centre (PBC) is an independent non-profit organisation dedicated to helping individuals from all backgrounds start, grow, and sustain their businesses through the provision of affordable, high-quality, and confidential support delivered by an innovative and professional team.
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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