The STANTA Community - Accessing Free Business Advice and other business services:
STANTA provides one-to-one counselling sessions tailored to your needs. As a not-for-profit organisation, we want to provide the support that small businesses both need and can afford. So whether you think you just need a one-off advice session to help you get started or more intensive help with a complex and critical business issue, there is only one charge, and, if you are pre-start or in your first year of trading, it can be free.
We work in partnership with Business Link. By bringing Business Link vouchers to STANTA, you become a member of the STANTA Community, giving you free one-to-one advice from STANTA advisors for 12 months, unlimited (at STANTA discretion), as well as access to other STANTA services. Business Link vouchers are currently available for pre-start and businesses in their first three years of trading for certain under-represnted groups.
STANTA services free to STANTA Community members include free legal and finance surgeries, free fact-sheets, free e-newsletters. STANTA also provides networking opportunities and low-cost seminars.
Business Link vouchers are available for start-up businesses and businesses that have been trading for up to three years based on various eligibility criteria. Businesses that do not meet Business Link criteria for vouchers can join the STANTA Community for a fee of £100 per year.
