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• Get help and support for your business

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• Find software for filing company documents

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Guidance and regulation

• Business innovation: what funding you can get and how to apply

  Detailed guide

  16 August 2018

  Innovate UK

• Tour Operators Margin Scheme (VAT Notice 709/5)

  Detailed guide

  14 December 2009

  HM Revenue & Customs

• Business Development Grant Scheme – Scarborough Borough

  Business finance support scheme

  27 March 2017

  Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

• Childcare business grants scheme (CBGS) - England
  • Business finance support scheme
  • 4 April 2018
  • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Business loans, grants and funding - Scotland
  • Business finance support scheme
  • 27 March 2017
  • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

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Organisations

1. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
2. Companies House
3. HM Revenue & Customs

1. Innovate UK