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Creative industry tax reliefs
Find out if your creative industry company qualifies for Corporation Tax Relief and how to make a claim.
Grants: the basics
How to find a grant that suits your business and what makes a business eligible to receive one.
Why a grant application might be turned down
Prepare your application meticulously to limit the possibility of it being turned down.
What kind of grants are available?
Searching for grant funding using the Northern Ireland business support finder and other channels.
How to apply for a government grant
Advice to ensure your application is effective, including applying before the deadline and researching the grant body.
How to turn around a struggling business
The areas of your business that you should assess in order to uncover any problems or potential problems.
Steps to make your business more efficient
How you can get the most out of your staff, processes and resources to reduce costs and improve your business.
How you can improve your profitability
How to identify and take advantage of the opportunities within your business to enhance your profit margins.
How to monitor water use in your business
Using a water balance to monitor your water use and comparing your water use with similar businesses.
Initial analysis of your water use and disposal
Analysing current business water use and disposal to give a baseline from which your water balance can be created.
Make a diagram of your business' water use
Making a block diagram of your water use to provide a visual aid to understanding potential savings.
How to keep your environmental policy up to date
How to ensure continual improvement in environmental performance by keeping your environmental policy up to date.
Checklist for writing an environmental policy
A simple checklist for how to draft an environmental policy which is appropriate to your type of business.
How to format your environmental policy
How to plan and develop an environmental policy according to the needs and culture of your business.
How to integrate an environmental policy into your business
Improve supplier relationships, consider environment-related investment, and set objectives for an efficient policy.
Extending the scope of your environmental policy
How to extend your environmental policy to take into account corporate social responsibility and greater sustainability.
Use your water monitoring information to save money
Using the information provided by the water balance and benchmarking to identify and implement cost savings.
Finalise the detail of your water balance
How to ensure you build the most comprehensive water balance by identifying less obvious water usage in your business.
What is water use benchmarking?
Some of the different types of water use benchmarking approaches and the benefits of water use benchmarking.
Quantify and record your water use
Precise measurement and recording of inflows and outflows is the final stage in understanding the water balance.