Build A Business: Business Basics - Getting Started

Schedule

Tue Jul 14 2026 at 09:30 am to 01:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Stockroom | Stockport, EN

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Setting up your own business? Recently started? Got a brilliant idea? Get the skills and confidence you need to succeed.
About this Event

Join Wendy Breakell, entrepreneur and named one of the top 50 business advisors in the North West, for this three hour workshop covering the practicalities of starting and growing your business.This workshop covers the essential ‘nuts and bolts’ of starting up and running a successful enterprise, including:

  • Legal Structures - self-employed, limited company, etc.
  • Business Planning & Business Model Canvas
  • Legal structures - self-employed, limited company, etc
  • Start-up business models
  • Costs, Cashflow, Finance and Tax
  • Pricing

Other upcoming Build a Business workshops:


Build A Business: Intellectual Property- Protect Your Assets
Build A Business : Know Your Customers, Get Competitive
Build A Business: Marketing - The Essentials

IMPORTANT NOTE:This workshop is part of our Build A Business in GM Libraries programme, funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. To be eligible to attend this workshop you MUST:

  • Click and complete this Client Registration Form : Complete Form (evolutive.co.uk)
  • Own a small business (including sole traders and microbusinesses) ORYou are thinking of starting a business or have a business idea you want to develop;
  • You or your business also needs to have a postcode within one of the following Greater Manchester authorities:Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Manchester, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford or Wigan.

For more information go to: www.buildabusinessgm.org


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Agenda

🕑: 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Registration and Refreshments

Info: Please note Stockroom does not open until 10am Please wait at the Merseyway Entrance and a member of staff will let you in from 9.30am.


🕑: 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
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Stockroom, Merseyway, Stockport, United Kingdom

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