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 year of trading.
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, as well as on-line training with LearnDirect Business eCourses (these are available at a significant discount to Community members) and intensive audio-based development training programmes supported with telephone coaching from Certain Change. These are also discounted for Community members.
Business Link vouchers are available for start-up businesses and businesses that have been trading for up to one year. Businesses that do not meet Business Link criteria for vouchers can join the STANTA Community for a fee of £70 per year.
