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Advisory support for creative businesses
Sources of information and advice for businesses in the Northern Ireland creative industries.
Core skills all businesses require
Core skills your business needs to function successfully in areas including leadership, finance, and personnel.
Challenges and opportunities in Northern Ireland creative sector
Learn about the opportunities for creative businesses in Northern Ireland, and the challenges they may encounter.
Foundation degrees - benefits for your business
Foundation degrees can help to improve your employees' skills and their contribution to your business.
Find out more about Foundation degrees
If you think that Foundation degrees are for you or for your employees, then there are a number of options available to find out more.
Consumer credit rules for businesses that hire out or lease goods
An introduction to how consumer credit rules affect businesses that hire or lease goods including providing a written hire agreement stating the consumer’s rights.
Skills and training for directors and owners
The key skills needed by business owners and directors and how these skills can be developed.
Grow your retail business
Find out how to improve your retail business, attract more customers and grow your sales through tactics like visual merchandising and online retail.
Does my business need a consumer credit licence?
If you sell on credit, lend money, issue credit cards, collect debts or give debt advice, you may need a consumer credit licence to operate.
How to apply for a consumer credit licence
You can apply for consumer credit licensing from the Financial Conduct Authority who will assess your fitness on factors such as competence and past offences.
Manage asbestos in rented business property
Responsibilities for managing asbestos in commercial premises, and who exercise them.
Fire safety in rented business property
Key responsibilities for tenants and landlords under fire regulations for commercial property.
Electrical safety in rented business property
How responsibility for electrical safety in commercial premises is determined.
Gas safety in rented business property
Division of responsibilities between landlords and tenants for gas safety checks and maintenance.
Skills required by growing businesses
How the complexity and variety of skills your business needs to access increase as your business grows.
Building a management team
Key considerations when building an effective management team for your business.
Energy performance in rented business property
Measures that landlords of commercial premises must take to comply with energy performance of building requirements.
Fire drills and training
How fire safety training should effectively inform employees and give them an understanding of what to do if a fire breaks out.
Fire risk assessment
Carrying out a fire risk assessment and putting in place appropriate measures to ensure the risks are minimised.
Fire safety equipment and evacuation plans
You must be able to detect a fire quickly and have means of escape and equipment to fight the fire as appropriate.