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Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services
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Apply for a UK Expansion Worker visa to set up a branch of an overseas business - eligibility, fees, documents, extend, switch or update, bring your partner and children.
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Guidance for providers of childcare on domestic and non-domestic premises who want to expand their registered setting into new premises.
Apply for the Registered Traveller service to get through UK border control faster and without filling in a landing card
How the School-based Nursery Capital Grant funding helped a primary school to repurpose an existing space to create a new preschool class.
From Blackpool to Plymouth, 14 areas to be transformed as part of the once-in-a-generation reforms to local government
Apply to come to the UK as a representative of a news agency, newspaper or news agency and you’re from outside the EEA and Switzerland - eligibility, fees, documents, how to apply, extend and switch.
Apply for a High Potential Individual (HPI) visa if you've been awarded a qualification by an eligible university in the last 5 years - eligibility, fees, documents, switch, bring your partner and children
A new consultation for a development corporation in Greater Cambridge has been launched today.
Information about the Ministry of Defence (MOD) SKYNET 6 Enduring Capability (SKEC) Programme, which will deliver the next generation of military satellites to provide strategic connectivity for the UK Armed Forces.
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