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Getting started in retail
Guides which can help you to start up a retail business from finding the right idea to investing in an existing business.
Improving your retail business
Guides to help you enhance and improve your retail business through marketing, growing sales and finding suppliers.
Your retail premises
Guides to help you find and effectively manage retail premises to ensure access for all and a safe retail environment.
Retail businesses and the environment
Guides to help your retail business lessen its impact on the environment and make a real difference on climate change.
Retailing and the law
Guides which summarise common legal issues which retail businesses must be aware of and comply with.
Employing people in your retail business
Guides which can help your retail business to understand employment issues, rights and how to comply with the law.
Employment in your construction business
Guides to help constructions businesses understand their obligations and duty of care to employees
Starting a business - find a case study
A range of case studies from local entrepreneurs who have started successful businesses
Business premises and rates - find a case study
Insight into how real businesses deal with premises and property issues on a practical level
Starting my business from home - Angels and Butterflies Jewellery Designs (video)
Debbie Todd, owner of Angels and Butterflies Jewellery Designs, discusses how she started her business from home
Types of stock
The four main types of stock - raw materials and components, work in progress, finished goods and consumables
How much stock should you keep?
Advantages and disadvantages of keeping either plenty of stock or very little
Stock control methods
How to control stock through reviews, minimum levels, using batch control and first in first out systems
Disabled access and facilities in business premises
Information on what adjustments you can make to ensure your business is accessible to disabled people.
How to improve access for people with disabilities
Change policies and procedures to improve disabled people's access to your business premises, products, and services.
When a person is considered to have a disability
Description of those people who are legally defined as disabled under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
Removing physical barriers to access
How to provide access to your services and products for people with disabilities.
Improve access and use of facilities for disabled employees
Make reasonable adjustments to physical features in the workplace to ensure equal access for staff with disabilities.
Seeking permission when improving access to business premises
The permission you might require when making changes to improve access for disabled people on your business premises.
Making our services accessible to disabled people - Lyric Theatre (video)
This video case study outlines how the Lyric Theatre’s premises, equipment, and services make its facilities accessible for all.