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Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
With our monthly Business Essentials subscription, we’ll help with the heavy lifting of insurance, funding, HR and legal issues. Plus, get personal benefits like healthcare, all from just £11.99 a month.
We know the biggest painpoints facing your business, and we’ve worked hard to create a membership scheme to address them all – in one place.
Join a community of likeminded business owners. We’re proud to help support over 200,000 businesses each month.
Access a huge range of benefits, tools and resources within minutes. Save yourself time, money and hassle.
Our monthly subscription plans are tailored to your business, to ensure you only ever pay for what you need.
We have two plans, depending on your business size.
A dedicated funding platform giving you access to the largest panel of UK lenders with one quick application. Compare finance offers with no impact on your credit rating and get in-principle decisions in minutes.
Employing a team is a rewarding part of running your own business, but it can come with complications. Stay compliant with employment law with our free templates, 24-7 advice line and employment tribunal cover up to £100,000. (Employment dispute cover isn’t included in the Soletrader plan).
Get access to health and safety advice for your workplace from industry experts as well as useful training and documentation.
In addition to the advice line, members can use our online resource of expert legal and business guides, templates and content covering everyday legal issues from trading and contracts to cyber and data, debt and insolvency.
We host several in-person and virtual events and award schemes to champion the best of British business each year. All members will be invited to apply, plus get free PR exposure with coverage on our site.
The Your GP service provided by Health Hero is a virtual GP service giving you 24/7 access to NHS GPs in the UK and IMC-registered GPs in the Republic of Ireland. The service offers consultations, advice, diagnosis, private prescriptions, second opinions and advice on chronic disease management.
Total Motor Assist is a membership scheme that gives you vital services that aren’t generally included in car insurance or breakdown cover, such as UK-wide accident recovery, like-for-like replacement car and manufacturer-approved repair, as well as helping avoid your insurance excess and maintain your no claims discount.
The Online Menopause Centre (OMC) makes hormone replacement therapy (HRT) accessible and affordable for women by offering video consultations with certified female doctors.
The last thing any small business needs is worry around HMRC issues. With our tax advice and protection insurance you can be sure that you won’t be out of pocket if your business is investigated.
As a small business, unexpected costs can be really damaging. With our membership, we’ll cover the costs for your lost wages and salary for each day you attend jury service. This also applies to other court attendance.
At no extra cost, your business will be protected against unexpected legal expenses, from property disputes to regulatory compliance. See your policy documents for full details.
Get peace of mind that your business’ reputation will be protected. Members can seek professional PR advice, tailored for small businesses, with specialist crisis communications support and insurance of up to £10,000 in the event of a major public relations crisis.
Members get access to competitive rates on savings accounts. Place your business cash in a range of savings accounts with one easy application to protect against inflation and earn more interest.
My Personal Support provides a complete mental health and wellbeing service for you and your employees, integrating several clinically proven counselling approaches to support your people – from everyday mental wellbeing needs to individual critical incident support, including addictions, anxiety, bereavement, debt and money issues, depression, work worries and much more. We also provide access to self-help NHS workbooks covering a range of topics that help you to better understand your feelings and emotions.
Through our partnership with UK Fuels, we can offer you 3p off each litre of diesel used to fill your vehicle when you pay with your fuel card. There’s no limit to the number of cars you can have on your UK Fuel card, no limit to the number of times you use it in one month, and it can be used at over 3,600 fuel stations nationwide.
Throughout the cost of living crisis, many have struggled to cope with the rising costs of household and business energy bills. Ask Bill can help you remain sustainable and environmentally friendly while saving money on your outgoings via simple advice and online self-assessment tools.
"Small Business is the place to go for all things business advice, support and interesting articles. I had the pleasure of being interviewed by them, and highly recommend checking out their Business Essentials membership to help grow your business."
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