Ten steps to help you prepare starting up

This ten step guide will help you prepare for starting up your business. It covers confidence, eligibility criteria, writing your CV, finding help with every day and business English, finding business training, organizing childcare, volunteering, organizing your money. It also gives useful links or websites of start-up, refugee organizations and other sources of support.

Preparing for start-up

The guide is divided into the following sections:

• Gain confidence
• Check if you are legally able to start a business
• Prepare your CV
• Find help with your English
• Get some business training
• Volunteer to work for a local business or in the community
• Arrange some childcare
• Organise your finance
• Get professional start-up support
• Other sources of support

In starting your own business it is important you have or improve your computer skills. This will help the day to day running of the business and its expansion. Ask the learning organisations listed in this booklet if they run courses you could go to.

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