Setting up a company

This section has helpful guides and tips on how to set up a company in the UK including setting up a limited company and Companies House and HMRC regulations.

How to start a dropshipping business

What is dropshipping, what are the advantages and how do you start a dropshipping business?

8 legal considerations when setting up a business

One of your first legal steps will be to register your business and choose your structure

Getting Online

Registering a company name – a Small Business guide

Your Small Business guide to registering a UK company name at Companies House.

Setting up a company

Forming a company: Choose your trading type

Joanne Harris of accountants Nixon Williams shows you the different options when it comes to setting up on your own and working for yourself

Business Ideas & Planning

How to get more from your business plan

Is your business plan gathering dust in a draw somewhere? Here’s why it’s time to adopt a fresh approach that will inject new life into your enterprise

Setting up a company

2020 set to be record year for new companies created

Extra 85,000 new businesses expected to be created this year, as Covid redundancies trigger people into setting up on their own

Setting up a company

Buying a company name before starting up

If I want to buy my company name so no one else can take it, but I’m not ready to start trading, how do I do that? What are my ongoing responsibilities with annual returns?

Setting up a company

Starting a beauty business: mobile vs salon

Salon Gold explores the pros and cons of starting a mobile beauty business vs starting up a salon on the high street.

Setting up a company

Buying a company name before starting up

If I want to buy my company name so no one else can take it, but I’m not ready to start trading, how do I do that? What are my ongoing responsibilities with annual returns?

Setting up a company