Next Steps - Start ups

The hottest entrepreneurs, start-ups, events and news straight from the London tech scene! Presented by Make Your Mark Ambassador Hermione Way.

YouNoodle is the online platform for the world's entrepreneurship groups and early-stage startups. They provide features like competition management, newsletters, and events, to make running entrepreneurship groups easier and more effective.

Set up in 2001 by the Association of Disabled Professionals to provide networking opportunities, work related mentoring and information services for self-employed disabled people and those setting up and running their own small businesses.

The Start a Business Programme is free and provides a package of advice, training and support to anyone interested in starting a business in Northern Ireland. Find out more about how the programme can help you.

Promotes local business & economic development within Northern Ireland. This includes support for start-up and existing business & can helping you relocate your operation to NI. They offer business advice, prospects, opportunities, research & development.

Venture Start Partnership is a service provided by Venture Wales to provide specialist business support services for entrepreneurs and new businesses with high growth potential.

Venture Wales is one of the main deliverers of the Welsh Assembly Government. They offer general support for business pre and post start programmes, which provide an effective support mechanism to all start up and growth ventures across Wales.

The Higher Education Careers Service Unit (HECSU) provides careers information and services to university careers advisory services, students, graduates, employers and others.

The National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship (NCGE) raises the profile of entrepreneurship and encourages students and graduates to choose to start their own business.

Businessdynamics aims to encourage young people to understand and get more involved in business.

Most barristers in England and Wales are members of The General Council of the Bar.

Most solicitors are members of the Law Societywhich is the regulatory and representative body for 116,000 solicitors in England and Wales

Read advice on selecting a chartered accountant in Ireland at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland website.

Find an accountant in Scotland at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland website.

Find a practising accountant at the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) website.

Read advice on choosing an accountant at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) website.

Select a chartered accountant at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) website

The Start a Business Programme is free and is available right across Northern Ireland. It provides a package of support to anyone interested in starting a business.

Companies House deals with the registration and deregistration of companies in the UK. These FAQs will help you understand matters to do with insolvency and bankruptcy.

The Liverpool Business Centre's e-Business Manager works with small to medium sized companies and start-up businesses in central Liverpool to help them make the best use of ICT and the internet.