The Women's Business Development Agency has put together this fantastic 'Planning For Your Business' workshop to help you to identify the skills, knowledge and information required to develop and plan your business successfully!

What is the workshop about?

To identify the skills, knowledge and information required to successfully plan a business…

A Business Plan is exactly what is says it is: a plan of your business! It’s nothing to be scared about, but you will need to put down on paper everything you plan for your business. And it doesn’t matter what stage of your business you are at. It’s a working document and even if you have one, then it’s worth revising it.

Why write a business plan?

Writing a business plan gives you the opportunity to:

• Bring together all your ideas about your new/existing business (including its overall purpose)
• Establish your objectives and targets (not only sales and financial)
• Predict possible pitfalls and consider how you might avoid or deal with them
• Establish future strategy (particularly in marketing)
• Perhaps convince possible investors that they should support your business

Are you any good at managing your own money?

Well it’s no good having a brilliant product, a target market that you can reach effectively if you can’t manage the money to produce and sell it, and you can’t manage the systems and people to produce it and get it to the customers!

Aims of the workshop

• To introduce delegates to business finance
• To enable delegates to and understand and produce financial information relevant to their business
• To show delegates how to effectively manage and monitor their business finances

Outcomes for delegates

• At the end of the workshop you will be able to
• Accurately calculate the cost to start or grow your business
• Access finance to start or grow your business
• Understand and produce financial forecasts for your business
• Calculate how much work you need to do before your business is profitable
• Implement an effective credit management system for their business
• Confidently monitor and manage your business finances

Here are some comments from the last workshop:

“Absolutely brilliant! I got so much out of this workshop!”

“Received a wealth of info to revisit and get back on track”

“The trainer’s in-depth knowledge was incredible”

“The workshop was very clear, easy to understand and accessible”

You won’t have a business without a market or without a customer! You need to know all about your market, your customer and what and how they are prepared to buy which products and services. How do you get your message to your potential customer? It’s a complex area, but you need to understand all the basics of your product or services. And this is how we can help…

What is the workshop about?

The Women’s Business Development Agency has put together a free and informal ‘Marketing and Selling’ Workshop which will help you understands what marketing is all about and what it means for your business!

Plus it will help you understand the marketing mix in content of your business, identify your target customers, analyse your competition, draw up your sales forecast, help you put your marketing plan together and so much more!

Here are some comments from our last Marketing and Selling workshop:

“It’s very practical and easily implemented – it made me really think about where I need to be and how I can get there!”

“Excellent workshop – it was great to interact with others in the same boat as me – learnt some great things from brainstorming with each other!!”

“I would definitely recommend this workshop to any woman looking for help in marketing! Very useful information, so easy to understand and great atmosphere!”

FREE “Women Only” Inland Revenue Presentation

“Becoming self-employed”

The aim of this workshop is to provide you with the information on:

• How you register your self-employment
• How you set up and maintain business records
• Paying your tax and National Insurance Contribution
• Registering for VAT
• Identify the key dates for Self Assessment
• Find further help and guidance