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We help businesses to start-up

Starting a business can be one of the most frightening, challenging but rewarding decisions that you can make. NBSL has an excellent reputation for working with people to help develop the skills they need to take the next step towards starting up their business. Click here to see what our clients say about us.

Through NBSL’s six Business Advice Centres we offer confidential and professional facilities where you can meet one of our experienced Business Advisers or attend one of the business start-up workshops in our training rooms.

Got a business idea but not sure of the next step?

Our team of Advisers will help you to understand more about starting up a business.  Find out what we do below.

All NBSL advisers have recently obtained or renewed their ILM/SFEDI Business Adviser accreditation with SFEDI (the UK Sector Skills body for Enterprise) which is tasked with standards setting for the enterprise sector. ILM is the acronym for the Institute of…
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Developing your business idea is exciting, and even more so when you can discuss it with someone.  Often, you can develop and refine your idea by talking it through. A confidential 'sounding board', or 'devils's advocate' is useful to help…

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