Self Employment and Business Growth

It can be difficult starting your own business, there can be many hurdles to overcome in every stage.

Redcar and Cleveland Training and Employment Hub work alongside the Business Growth team to help unemployed clients or individuals looking for a change to start up their own business.

If you are thinking of starting your own business and need some support you can contact Ainsley Mullen on Telephone 01642 444366 or by emailainsley.mullen@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk .

There is a wide range of funding available to clients starting their own business and the business growth team can work with you to find the best route for your business to achieve success.

Check out: Business (redcarcleveland.co.uk) for more information regarding funding.

Once established as a new business it is important to keep up with documentation to ensure your success.

For more information and guidance relating to self employment forms visit: Self-employment: detailed information - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Do I need a business plan?

Every new idea needs a business plan. The business plan will outline what your new business will be doing and what you are hoping to achieve with the business. The plan can help you make sure that the overall idea will be achievable.

For more information, visit: Essential guide to writing a business plan | Start Up Donut

NEW BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES TO THE BOROUGH...

Teesworks

Teesworks is the UK’s largest freeport, unrivalled in its size, scale and opportunity compared with not just anywhere in the UK, but across Europe.

Led by a joint venture private sector partnership with a strong alignment with regional and national Government, the site’s 25-year vision is to become a world-class industrial site heavily focused on clean energy and advanced manufacturing.

One of the UK’s largest, most concentrated demolition programmes has seen no fewer than 38 structures relating to the former Redcar Steelworks brought down to help breathe new life into approximately 4,500 acres of land to the south of the River Tees.

Teesworks is the UK’s largest freeport, unrivalled in its size, scale and opportunity compared with not just anywhere in the UK, but across Europe.

(Introduction - Teesworks: The UK's Largest Freeport)