Information for Business Award Recipients

Self Employment Award Winners

If you have received a Self Employment Award from Changing Lives, this page contains some important and useful information that could help you with your business.

Downloadable business guides

Business Link has produced The No-Nonsense Guide to Starting a Business with advice about getting your business off the ground. This is vital to anyone launching a business and can provide answers to many of your questions.

Working for Yourself- The Guide includes all the information you need about taxation when becoming self employed. It offers advice about self assessment, tax credits, national insurance and VAT

When you become self employed it is very important that you register as self employed with HM Revenue and Customs

These guides are all designed to help you with your business and provide as much support as possible. If you find any other useful sources of information please contact us and we can share these with other award winners.

Other sources of business support and guidance

Inbiz provides advice and guidance to business start ups from developing enterprise skills to setting up and running your own business

The Princes Trust business programme is for people between 18 and 30 and can provide ongoing support as well as low cost loans to help get your business started

National Federation of Enterprise Agencies can help you find local support in your area

New Enterprise Scholarships are run by local business enterprise agencies and provide a programme of support for entrepreneurs from deprived areas