Business Link provides the information, advice and support you need to start, maintain and grow a business. It provides information and advice to help customers make the most of their opportunities. Rather than providing all the advice and help itself, it fast-tracks customers to the expert help they need. The Business Link service is a crucial part of the gorvenment’s campaign to promote enterprise and to make the UK the best place in the world to start and grow a business. Business Link is available locally and quality

assured regionally to clear national standards. It is primarily funded by the Department of Trade and Industry, supported by a number of other government departments agencies and local authorities.

To find your nearest operator either search the site by your postcode, browse the provided lists or call 0845 600 9 006 (minicom 0845 606 2666) - you will be connected directly to your nearest Business Link.

The Princes Trust is a UK Charity that helps young people start their own businesses through their Business Start Up Programme.

‘Are you aged 18 - 30, unemployed, living in England and have an idea for a business but can’t raise all the cash you need from anywhere else? We could help you get up and running. With start-up support from The Prince’s Trust, you could get:

- a low interest loan of up to £4,000 for a sole trader, or up to £5,000 for a partnership (the average loan is between £2,000 and £3,000 but varies regionally)

- a grant of up to £1,500 in special circumstances (subject to local availability)

- ongoing advice from a volunteer business mentor

- access to a wide rand of products and services. Includes our free Legal Helpline sponsored by Barclays’

With more than 40 years’ ecperience, Young Enterprise is the UK’s leading business and enterprise education charity.

It offers a range of programmes, based on the principle of Learning by Doing which brings volunteers from business into the classroom to work with teachers and students. Some of our programmes, enable students to work together to run their own real company. Others use games, hands on activities and role play to develop skills and capabilities for business and enterprise.

With more than 5,500 school and colleges participating in

our programmes, Young Enterprise currently reaches more than 320,000 young people a year from primary school right through to university.

The businesses and volunteers that support Young Enterprise take an active role in building a better-motivated, educated and enterpriseing workgorce, at the same time making a real difference to the existing lives and future potential of young people who live and attend school in their area.

The ebay community is made up of individual buyers and sellers who come to the site to do more than just buy or sell-they have fun, shop around, and get to know each other, for example, by chatting on the eBay discussion boards.

Through the discussion boards, members meet and get to know each other, discuss topics of mutual interest, and help each other to learn all about eBay. These discussion boards are public forums that encourage open communication between users.

eBay becomes a part of members lifestyles. Many members have created second businesses, or left day jobs altogether, by selling items on eBay. For hundreds of thousands of others eBay is the place to share a passion for items that are special.

The community is also self-policing, and users frequently form ‘neighbourhood watch’ grous to help guard against misuse or violations of site etiquette.