Links
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Business links
Business Eye
www.businesseye.org.uk/index.html
Based in Wales, this website is a great source of advice through its factsheets. These cover all aspects of starting and maintaining a business, including finance, management, e-commerce, sales and marketing.
Business Gateway
www.bgateway.com/
This website offers information on a wide range of business subjects and there are local seminars and workshops in different areas plus one-to-one business advice.
Business Link
www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/home
Offers practical advice for businesses on the website as well as through local Business Link operators.
Choose Enterprise
www.chooseenterprise.com/
A website for young people who are thinking about setting up their own business. It offers advice on assessing and presenting a business idea, preparing a business plan and obtaining funding and support. It also has a schools page with lots of resources for teachers, including games and business plan ideas.
Connections Direct
www.connexions-direct.com/
A confidential service covering a wide range of subjects for young people aged 13-19. There's a section on the site about starting your own business.
The Princes Trust
www.princes-trust.org.uk/
The Princes Trust helps young people aged 14-30 to get their lives working. Whether it's training, education or starting a business, the trust offers advice, provides low interest loans and grants for training or can help young people choose relevant courses.
Real Deal
www.channel4.com/4money/realdeal/index.html
A comprehensive site from Channel 4 that offers advice and inspiration on starting your own business. Here you can road test your great business idea, get the lowdown on writing a business plan, find out about funding and gain inspiration from personal success stories.
Shell LiveWIRE
www.shell-livewire.org/
Helps 16-30-year-olds start and develop their own business and hosts a national competition for new business start-ups. It provides a free Essential Business Kit to every caller, tailored to their specific business idea, and offers one-to-one advice through a national network of local business advisers and young business mentors plus an interactive web service and idea exchange.
Young Enterprise
www.young-enterprise.org.uk/
Young Enterprise runs a range of business and enterprise education programmes for more than 150,000 young people each year, through the support of businesses and volunteers. It offers students the opportunity to run a real company and to learn about aspects of business from the first hand experiences of volunteers. Scottish young people should go to Young Enterprise Scotland (YES).
4Money
www.channel4.com/4money/smartmoney/
student_money_landing.html
Gap years, how to make a little extra cash, saving money plus find out how tight-fisted you are on this Channel 4 website about all things money-related.
Need2know – money
www.need2know.co.uk/money
Aimed at students, this site contains useful information about managing your money and what to do if you end up in debt.
Money, Money, Money
www.mny-mny-mny.com/section_2.htm
A guide to basic finance with useful sections on banks, building societies and plastic cards plus budgeting and managing your money.
Personal Finance Education Group
www.pfeg.org/Resources/TeachingResources
/default.asp?StageID=5
Links to lots of activities to help with all aspects of teaching personal finance to all ages.
Support4Learning
www.support4learning.org.uk/money/index.cfm
Information on different forms of financial help and advice available to you if you undertake various kinds of study and/or training, plus advice on money management and comparison of bank and building society accounts for children and young people.
Teachernet
www.teachernet.gov.uk/teachingandlearning
/library/youngpeopleandmoney/
Details what students should be taught on the subject of money plus teaching tips.
Other programmes available from Channel 4
Think Business
A series of five programmes showing how business theory works in practice in a range of enterprises and exploring the objectives of real managers and entrepreneurs as they undertake their day-to-day business.
Get the video and then check out our programme notes.
Off Limits: Looking After the Penneys
Handling money requires understanding, competence, responsibility and enterprise. These three programmes develop these in interesting, entertaining and practical ways, designed to encourage pupils to feel that personal finance issues are relevant to them.
Get the video and then check out our programme notes.
The Business
Profiles two dynamic businesses – an established chain of sushi restaurants and a small independent record label – across six precarious months of operation. The series demonstrates the processes that they undertake to meet the needs of their customers and stay afloat.
Get the DVD.
