Taking advantage of available advice and support is crucial to the success of start-up companies. Here is a list of organisations that can help.

Plymouth Advice and Information

Local advice can be very useful, it puts you in contact with a network of people in the region also facing the same regional challenges and using the same local resources. The University of Plymouth has the formation zone and opens the possibility of find people with the necessary advanced skills for different parts of developing the business.

Outset Plymouth
Plymouth City Council
Plymouth Business Constellation
University of Plymouth Formation Zone

National Advice and Information

The basics of business are universal, large national organisations and government websites offer a great deal of useful information.

Shell LiveWIRE
Young Entrepreneur
Gov.uk

Investment groups

Various investment organisations exist to support start-ups, some of them local, both allowing them to support financially and with local contacts.

Southwest Business Finance
Southwest Investment Group
Fredericks Foundation
Creative England

Banks

Barclays
HSBC
Lloyds
NatWest
Santander
RBS

Technical

Arduino Forum