Business Issues
This section contains links to information and services for businesses:
- Bankruptcy, liquidation and receivership
If you have difficulty contacting a company and want to check whether a company is still trading the Companies House web site (click on link) allows you to check.
- Business and the Council
- Business Crime
- Business Continuity
- Business Rates
- Climate Change and Business
- Conference and Training Venues
- Document Library
- E Business
- Employment Information
- Environmental Advice for Business
- Exports, Imports and Foreign Trade
- Fairtrade Prizes for Business of the Month
- Health & Safety information
- Intellectual Property Rights
This includes patents, copyright, trademarks, design and royalties
- Investors in People
The Investors in People Standard is a straightforward, proven framework for delivering business improvement through people.
- Olympics in 2012
Information for companies interested in business opportunities offered by the London 2012 Olympics should look at this link
- Online services
This includes payment of business rates and submitting planning applications online
- Planning Permission - a guide for Business
The Office for the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) has produced a guide to Planning Permission for Business. This link takes you to the website.
- Download this document (PDF, 1.3 Mb)
- Planning Permission
Information from Charnwood Borough Council's Development Control Department on Planning Applications and Permissions
- Postal information for businesses
Information about postal services and charges from Royal Mail, postcode and address finder, advice to SMEs on mailshots and sending large volumes of mail, etc.
- Quality Management, Benchmarking, TQM
- Risk Management
The More Than insurance group produces a series of free guides for business covering risks for particular types of business (shops & retailers, hairdressing and beaty salons, restaurants & cafes, and surgeries). They also have guides on Fire Safety, Arson, Asbestos, Health & Safety and Public Liability.
- Technology transfer
Technology transfer is about putting those involved in research and innovation in contact with potential partners with the resources to develop their ideas
- VAT information
- Working from home
A check list from Business Link