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Advantages of diversifying your farm
Some of the benefits of adding new business ideas and income streams into your existing farm business
Create a healthy work-life balance
Practical ways that employers could improve the work-life balance of their staff.
What is farm diversification?
What farm diversification means for your business and how to use your land, tools and expertise to drive business growth.
Having trouble raising finance for your business?
How to overcome problems when trying to raise finance to get your new business idea off the ground.
Growing a retail business - Cunningham Butchers & Food Hall (video)
James Cunningham, Managing Director of Cunningham Butchers & Food Hall, explains how they successfully grew their retail business.
Realistic business planning with limited finances
How to create a business plan and a cashflow forecast to help control finances in your start-up business.
Alternative sources of business finance
Consider alternative funding options including family loans, part-time jobs, re-mortgages and credit unions.
Flexible working policy
Considerations for employers when introducing a flexible working policy and example templates.
Farm diversification ideas
Ideas to diversify your farm with tourism, livestock products, renewable energy and seasonal events to boost income.
Segment your customers
Putting your customers into groups could help you understand and target their needs more effectively and identify the most and least profitable customers.
Retail
Guidance on getting started in retail, improving your retail business, running a retail premises, retail and the environment, business finances and the law, and employing people in retail
Introducing flexible and family-focused workplace policies - Adventures Day Nursery
How Adventures Day Nursery in Belfast has implemented family-friendly initiatives in the workplace.
Support employee work-life balance
How employers can encourage and support a better work-life balance for their staff and the advantages a healthy work-life balance can bring to the workplace.
Venture capital
How the venture capital investment model applies to small and medium-sized businesses seeking funding.
Work-life balance: Implement a flexible working policy
How employers can implement a flexible working policy to help promote a healthy work-life balance for their staff - includes a flexible working policy template.
Seven tips to improve work-life balance for employees
Practical tips to help employers encourage a work-life balance amongst their staff.
Control costs when starting your business
How to keep control of costs in your startup business and tips to save money and increase profits for your business.
Shared Island Civic Society Fund
An opportunity for civic society organisations to secure funding and develop cross-border partnerships.
Identify work-life balance problems
Signs that can tell employers that their staff are suffering from a poor work-life balance.
Manage your cashflow effectively
Make your cash work for you by keeping a regular check on all money going in and out of the business.