Starting Your Own Business

If you are thinking about starting your own business, we want to help you to successfully turn your idea into a rewarding, sustainable business by offering you the opportunity of working with the various business support organisations in Hartlepool.

The Hartlepool Business Support Network provides new and existing businesses to access a wealth of comprehensive, tailored support and information on any aspect of setting up and growing a business, regardless of its size.


Hartlepool's Business Support Network

Local, regional and national business support partners have joined forces to help individuals such as you, within the town of Hartlepool, to not only develop your business ideas and turn them into a reality, but to help you grow your business successfully.

By working together, business support organisations, offer you a complete business support service, ranging from general business advice on starting up a new business through to specialist areas such as exporting or innovating.

We have a co-ordinated approach to offering business support and advice, ensuring that the required help is easily accessible and readily available when you need it. Simply contact us and we will do the rest.


This support includes:

  • Financially supported professional business advice around the many issues which will face you in setting up and developing your business, such as marketing, planning, legal matters, health & safety, recruitment, premises and financial matters such as business accounts.
  • Professional enterprise skills training and development and the valuable support of a local business mentor, to guide you and assist your business to develop and grow.
  • Access to a wide range of relevant financial support measures, through the variety of local enterprise delivery partners (up to £5,000 depending upon business and personal circumstances)
  • Legally constituting your business - enabling you to take advantage of the many business tendering opportunities and protect you from a range of business and legal liabilities.
  • Marketing your business idea widely throughout the town and further afield - to attract new and retain existing customers.
  • Access to Information regarding potential personal and family benefits, relevant to your circumstances and that of your business - including in work benefits and tax credits.
  • Professional advice and support on correctly registering your business with the various regulatory organisations and the support which is available to assist with issues such as taxation and VAT liabilities.
  • Developing a credit rating, to enable you to access other business financial support measures or even personal finances.
  • If you have been running a business on an informal basis, we can even obtain information anonymously and confidentially on any potential liabilities that you may have and broker terms on your behalf, to clear and potentially reduce those liabilities.

For further information about starting your own business, please contact:

Hartlepool Enterprise Team
Hartlepool Enterprise Centre
Brougham Terrace
Hartlepool
TS24 8EY

E-mail  : info@investinhartlepool.com
Tel      : (01429) 867677