Connect with Set Up Advice - Sole Trader or Limited Company of On The Spot Tax Limited for small business support on Enterprise Nation

Connect with Set Up Advice - Sole Trader or Limited Company to grow your entrepreneurial network of start-ups and small business owners on Enterprise Nation.

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt; I&amp;#39;m here to help. I&amp;#39;m volunteering free advice calls of up to an hour as part of the Recovery Advice for Business scheme, over the next 6 months. Please get in touch to see how I can help your business.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Covering London and the South, we work&amp;nbsp;with you to understand your business enabling&amp;nbsp;you to benefit from &lt;strong&gt;practical tax, finance and business advice&lt;/strong&gt;, while also providing your&amp;nbsp;year end tax and accounts service within your timetable.&lt;br /&gt;
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Providing &lt;strong&gt;jargon-free&lt;/strong&gt; explanations to solve the mystery of the difference between your day to day figures, those required for your accounts and your tax bill.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Specialities:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;u&gt;Tax planning&lt;/u&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;u&gt;Commercial&amp;nbsp;practical business advice, Corporation tax, R&amp;amp;D claims, EIS, SEIS,&amp;nbsp;Income tax, Capital allowances, Dividend tax, VAT, Share options, Year end accounts, Capital gains tax,&amp;nbsp;Coronavirus support.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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A bit confused about which route to take? Whether to set up as a sole trader or a limited company? Is limited liability important, or tax efficiency, or flexibility? what are your growth plans? Discuss it with us and we can then set you up, if you'd like us to. 

We're here to help you.
Accessible, jargon-free explanations to help you understand your finances, optimise your tax claims and grow your business successfully.
Benefit from:
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<li>Practical, relevant, commercial corporation tax, income tax, director remuneration tax and VAT advice.</li>
<li>Making your year end accounts tell the correct story to the public and HMRC.</li>
<li>Understanding your figures. What do they tell you? What's happening to your margins and underlying cash. We'll take you through it.</li>
<li>Specialist area advice such as R&amp;D, EMI options and S/EIS investment and making the claims.</li>
<li>Signposting you to other trusted relevant services, such as bookkeepers.</li>
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Set Up Advice - Sole Trader or Limited Company? by Paula Tomlinson

I&apos;m a <a href=&apos;https://danmartinuk.com/&apos; target=&apos;_self&apos;>freelance content creator and event host</a> who helps small businesses and the organisations that support them. I&apos;m also Enterprise Nation&apos;s Local Leader for Bristol.
I have 20 years of experience as a small business journalist having interviewed hundreds of entrepreneurs from famous names like Sir Richard Branson and Deborah Meaden to the founders behind brand new start-ups.
I&apos;ve worked for a range of leading small business publications and support groups, most recently as head of content at Enterprise Nation where I was responsible for the prolific output of content on the company&apos;s blog and social media. I now freelance for Enterprise Nation as the website&apos;s <a href=&apos;https://www.enterprisenation.com/business-news&apos; target=&apos;_self&apos;>news reporter</a> and as the host of the <a href=&apos;https://www.enterprisenation.com/podcast&apos; target=&apos;_self&apos;>Small Business sessions podcast</a>.
I&apos;m based in Bristol where I run and host regular events with the local small business community in my role as Enterprise Nation&apos;s Local Leader for Bristol. I also have strong connections with other major business organisations in the south west region.
In total, I&apos;ve hosted over 100 events including conferences with an audience of hundreds for international brands like Xero and Facebook and live web chats from inside 10 Downing Street.
With my partner, I co-run <a href=&apos;https://www.lifestyledistrict.co.uk/&apos; target=&apos;_self&apos;>Lifestyle District</a>, a lifestyle blog focused on culture, art, theatre and photography.

Freelance content creator & event host

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Lorna Bladen is the Chief of Marketing at Enterprise Nation. Lorna has over ten years of experience working in marketing. 

Previous roles include:
- Head of Marketing at Escape The City
- Head of Partnerships at Moneypenny
- Freelance marketing consultant
- Marketing lead at StartUp Britain

Lorna is based in Brighton, West Sussex and is open to supporting small businesses across the UK.

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This group is for accountants to network, connect, share experiences and discuss all things accounting.

Hatty Fawcett, Founder of <a href=&apos;https://focusedforbusiness.com/&apos; target=&apos;_self&apos;>Focused For Business</a>, is on a mission to make it faster and fairer for start-up founders and business owners to raise equity investment, particularly when they are doing so for the first or second time.
Reports show that gender, ethnicity and geographical location can all be barriers to accessing funding. Hatty and the team at Focused For Business believe investment should be available to everyone, and that the process shouldn’t be over complicated or unnecessarily time consuming.
Hatty, has a strong track record in supporting start-ups and raising investment. She has worked in three startups, raised equity investment for her former business (a marketplace) and also managed some of the investments Kelly Hoppen made when she appeared on the TV show “Dragons Den”. This experience gives Hatty a unique perspective when it comes to raising investment and the ability to see funding from both sides of “the fence”.
Hatty and the Focused For Business team run the <a href=&apos;https://focusedforbusiness.com/raising-equity-investment/funding-accelerator/&apos; target=&apos;_self&apos;>Funding Accelerator</a> programme which has raised over £22 million for businesses that have graduated from the programme, over £10 million of which was raised in the last 12 months.
Hatty’s unique perspective on start-up funding, and the work she does to level the playing field when it comes to raising equity investment, has resulted in her being a finalist in the Great British Entrepreneur Awards in 2023, and being recognised as Adviser of the Year 2022 and in 2024 by Enterprise Nation.

Funding Accelerator

A three month programme designed to:
1) help you prepare all the documents needed to raise equity investment
2) find and pitch to the right investors for your business
3) support you in negotiating and closing the funding round

The programme is delivered live through weekly 90 minute Zoom workshops. Weekly assignments have you in action preparing everything you need step-by-step and expert mentors provide feedback and input to help you improve your documents to successfully attract investors.



I set up my main business in 2014 to gain freedom! I help other small businesses to get up and running, both with mentoring and accountancy support. I&apos;m able to share my knowledge and experience to help you get there quicker, and will be your biggest cheerleader.

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